APC waivers and discounts

Springer Nature offers APC waivers to papers whose corresponding authors are based in locations classified by the World Bank as low-income economies as of July 2023.

Papers whose corresponding authors are based in locations with lower-middle-income economies and with a 2022 gross domestic product (GDP) of less than 200 billion US dollars are eligible for a 50% discount (reference - World Bank 1st July 2023).

Please request your waiver or discount at the point of submission.

Please note that APC waivers and discounts for corresponding authors based in low- and lower-middle-income economies are superseded by Springer Nature's country-tiered APC pricing pilot for a number of our journals.

For information about our discretionary waiver and discount policies for authors in financial need, please see our open access policies for journals

APC waivers are not offered for open access publication in Springer Nature hybrid and transformative titles, as authors without the funds to publish open access in these journals can publish via the subscription route. See our hybrid journals portfolio for further information on hybrid journals in Springer and Palgrave imprints and hybrid academic journals on nature.com. 

Low-income locations: full APC waiver

Afghanistan

Gambia

Rwanda

Burkina Faso

Guinea-Bissau

Sierra Leone

Burundi

Liberia

Somalia

Central African Republic

Madagascar

South Sudan

Chad

Malawi

Togo

Congo (Democratic Republic)

Mali

Uganda

Eritrea

Mozambique

Ukraine*

Ethiopia

Niger

Yemen

*Discount temporarily increased to 100% following Russian invasion. This applies to titles within Springer Nature standard workflows, and excludes titles where Springer Nature does not directly invoice authors, for example translated titles.

Lower-middle-income locations with GDP below $200 billion (USD): 50% APC discount

Angola

Honduras

Samoa

Benin

Jordan

Sao Tome and Principe

Bhutan

Kenya

Senegal

Bolivia

Kiribati

Solomon Islands

Cabo Verde

Kyrgyzstan

Sri Lanka

Cambodia

Laos

Tajikistan

Cameroon

Lebanon

Tanzania

Comoros

Lesotho

Timor-Leste

Congo (Republic)

Mauritania

Tunisia

Côte d'Ivoire

Micronesia

Uzbekistan

Djibouti

Morocco

Vanuatu

Eswatini

Nepal

Zambia

Ghana

Nicaragua

Zimbabwe

Guinea

Palestinian Territories

Haiti

Papua New Guinea