Full Waiver
Full APC waiver: Available to corresponding authors based at institutions in World Bank Group I (low-income) countries, upon confirmed verification of affiliation.
Open Access, Licensing, and Copyright
Open Access Policy
ADES is a fully open-access journal. All published content is freely and permanently accessible online to any reader, anywhere in the world, immediately upon publication and without registration or subscription. This policy applies to all article types. ADES operates on the gold open-access model: authors pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) upon acceptance, and in return their work is published under a Creative Commons licence that allows free access and reuse.
Creative Commons Licensing
All articles published in ADES are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles, and use them for any lawful purpose, including commercial use, provided that:
Authors retain copyright of their own work. By submitting to ADES, authors grant the journal the right of first publication under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
8.3 Article Publication Charges
Article Publication Charges
The following APC schedule applies. All charges are in USD and are inclusive of all production costs. No submission fee is charged at any stage.
| Article Type | APC (USD) |
|---|---|
| Research Article | 1,00 |
| Review Article | 50 |
| Short Communication | No charge |
| Commentary / Opinion | No charge |
| Methods Article | No charge |
| Case Report | No charge |
| Letter to the Editor | No charge |
| Editorial (invited) | No charge |
APC Waivers and Discounts
50% Discount
Partial waiver (50% discount): Available to corresponding authors based at institutions in World Bank Group II (lower-middle-income) countries.
Hardship Waiver
Hardship waiver: Authors from any country who can demonstrate a genuine inability to pay — and whose institutions or funders do not cover APCs — may apply for a full or partial waiver. Applications are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
APC waivers must be requested at the time of submission. Waiver requests do not affect editorial decisions, which are made entirely on scientific merit before any APC discussions take place. Authors whose funding body or institution covers the APC are expected to arrange payment accordingly and should not apply for waivers on financial grounds if funding is available.
CC BY 4.0
All articles published in ADES are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles, and use them for any lawful purpose, including commercial use, provided that:
Self-Archiving and Repository Deposit
Authors may self-archive their manuscript in any institutional or subject repository, without embargo, under the following conditions:
In all cases, the deposited item should include a link to the published article on the ADES website with the correct DOI.