APCs for full-length articles

The following per-paper APCs are valid for any full-length article submitted from 1 March 2026:

APCs for short-article manuscript types

The manuscript types AGORA: Ideas and Concepts, comments and replies, and short communications require significantly fewer pages than regular, full-length articles. The following per-paper APCs are valid for any such short article submitted from 1 March 2026:

Country group discounts

Web Ecology provides standard discounts based on the affiliation of the corresponding author (CA) of a manuscript.

• Research4Life (R4L): Research4Life (R4L) classifies countries, areas, and territories in groups A and B according to the World Bank's total GNI and GNI per capita, the United Nations Least Developed Countries (LDCs) list, the Human Development Index (HDI), and WHO's healthy life expectancy (HALE). If the corresponding author (CA) of a manuscript is affiliated with an institution in an R4L country, independent whether this belongs to groups A or B, the manuscript receives a standard waiver of the APC. If a manuscript has more than 1 CA, the R4L waiver is only applied if all CAs are R4L-affiliated.
• Any country: if the corresponding author (CA) or at least 1 of the CAs is affiliated with an institution in a country that is not classified as R4L country, no standard discounts on APCs are provided, but authors can apply for individual support subject to editorial decision. Please see the web page on financial support.

Please note that Copernicus Publications validates any definitions of CAs. Thereby, the information given upon manuscript registration might be adjusted in the course of the peer-review and production process. The final assignment of a manuscript to a country group for the APC settlement is done by Copernicus Publications at the end of the proofreading process, just before the final journal article is published, and any possible adjustments of CAs until that moment are taken into account.

Member discounts

Web Ecology is owned by the European Ecological Federation (EEF). Starting with submissions from 1 March 2026, the EEF provides an APC discount of 10% to its members. Relevant are corresponding authors and whether they have been EEF members in the year of the manuscript submission. Thereby, the possible EEF member discount is determined after determining the country group of the submission. If a manuscript has more than 1 corresponding author (CA), the CAs belonging to the determined country group are considered, and it is checked whether one of them has been a member in the year of submission. If eligible, the member discount of 10% is automatically applied to the APC settlement.

Institutional agreements (IAs)

Copernicus Publications fosters collaboration with institutions, universities, funders, and libraries to sign so-called institutional agreements (IAs) for the centralized settlement of APCs. The vast majority of IAs are based on the affiliation of the corresponding author. Upon manuscript registration, the submitting author defines all co-authors as well as any corresponding authors (CAs). Then a relation between a CA and an IA can be established defining the further APC settlement. This could include 100% coverage, but if an IA covers less than 100%, the remaining APC to be paid by the authors is defined through the IA price, independent of other possible origins of CAs with other regulations. If a manuscript has more than 1 CA and more than 1 IA could be related, the submitting author needs to select 1 IA for the APC settlement. Please note that Copernicus Publications validates any definitions of CAs and IA selections. Thereby, the information given upon manuscript registration might be adjusted in the course of the peer-review and production process. The final assignment of a manuscript to an IA is done by Copernicus Publications at the end of the proofreading process, just before the final journal article is published, and any possible adjustments of CAs until that moment are taken into account. An overview of institutional agreements can be found on the financial support web page.

Financial support

In addition to the APC coverage by institutional agreements or APC discounts based on the affiliation of the corresponding authors, further forms of financial support are available at Web Ecology that require an application by the authors and an editorial decision. Additionally, a number of external organizations provide funds for APC payments. Please study our full overview of financial support:

Financial support