Charges
Page composition charges
Page composition charges are $100 for each page of the finished typeset article. Invited Articles and Correspondence are exempt from page composition charges. If you choose an Open Access license, page composition charges will still apply, and be invoiced separately.
Color charges
Authors are charged for the print reproduction of color figures. Invited Articles and Correspondence are exempt from color charges. The cost is $550 per color figure for each printed color figure. In the submission cover letter, authors should state whether they will bear the cost of reproducing their color figures or whether they prefer to have them published in black and white at no additional cost. NOTE: If you choose an Open Access license, color charges will still apply and be invoiced separately, unless the authors have opted for black and white at no additional cost.
Standard Licensing, Billing and Waivers
Standard Licensing: When your paper is accepted, you will be notified to advance to the licensing process step, which is presented to the author post-acceptance. You can choose a Standard License, for which there is no licensing charge.
Following the licensing step, after your paper has been formatted for publication, you will be invoiced for page composition charges and color figure charges. Please seek support or funding to cover publication expenses. Discretionary waivers are limited and reserved for special circumstances. A request for waiver must be noted when submitting a manuscript and by completing a discretionary waiver application which is available through the submission system. NOTE: Waiver requests will not be accepted for consideration post-acceptance. A waiver decision will normally be made within 8-10 working days. A request made after acceptance will not be considered.
Open Access Licensing & Billing
Clinical Infectious Diseases offers the added option of publishing with an open access license.
Certain funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. In addition, some funders (including Plan S participants, Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wellcome Trust, and World Health Organization) require publication in a fully open access journal as a condition of funding. Clinical Infectious Diseases is not a fully open access journal; therefore, if your funder requires publication in a fully open access journal, you should ensure that you have alternative funding (such as a transformative agreement between your institution and Oxford University Press) to support publication costs. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
If you choose an Open Access license, an Article Processing Charge will be presented. You will be required to identify the entity responsible for paying for the Open Access license. The publisher will then invoice an Article Processing Charge (APC) to the party responsible for payment prior to an article’s online publication. NOTE 1: Be careful when choosing an Open Access license versus a standard license. Once an Open Access license is issued, it cannot be undone. NOTE 2: Article Processing Charges (APC) are billed and collected at the time of license selection. NOTE 3: In addition to Article Processing Charges which are related to licensing, you will be invoiced page composition charges and color charges separately through a subsequent invoice, after your paper has been formatted.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
Open Access and Read & Publish Agreements
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Third-Party Content in Open Access Papers
If you will be publishing your paper under an Open Access license but it contains material for which you do not have Open Access re-use permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material:
Title of content, author, original publication, year of original publication, by permission of [rights holder]. This image/content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons license of this publication. For permission to reuse, please contact the rights holder.
