Open Access / Color Fees for Plant Diversity and Evolution (PDE)
Plant Diversity and Evolution (PDE) offers optional open access publication to its authors.
All papers are published under the
Creative Commons CC-BY NC license, which allows
free distribution, but prohibits commercial exploitation.
Authors retain the copyright to their works.
OA Fee
The OA-fee (CC-BY-NC or CC-BY license) consists of a base fee (€140 per article) and a page fee (€ 119 per published page) and is
charged for papers up to and including 20 pages. OA-fees for papers exceeding 20 pages in length are negotiated
individually.
Color publicaton is free for Open Access papers.
Fee example: The fee for a hypothetical paper of 6 typeset pages amounts to
€ 140 + € 119 * 6 = € 854.00.
Taxes and color publishing are included
OA-fees are invoiced and payable before a paper is published online.
| Plant Diversity and Evolution (PDE) OA publishing fee overview: | |
| Base fee: | € 140 (per article) |
| Page fee: | € 119 (per published page) |
The OA publishing fee includes taxes and color publishing fees.
Color Publishing Fee
Color publishing for non-OA-papers is charged at € 29.90 per published color page (plus taxes, where applicable).
Other Article Processing Fees
Language editing fee (where required by the editors): € 12 per manuscript page (plus taxes, where applicable)