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Page and publication charges

Some subscription journals charge authors page or publication charges to publish their article. There has been ambiguity when an article, from one of these journals, has any of these associated costs as well as open access (OA) as to what should be charged. Therefore, Sage is clarifying its policy on the subject (July 2022).

There are two ways an article in a subscription journal can publish OA, one is through requesting to publish your article OA, this is called Sage Choice, or the article may have been identified as part of one of our Open Access Sales Deals (OASD).

Articles being made OA by one of the two options, will still also have the associated charge related to the journal such as page, publication or colour charge.

Terms and Definitions

  • Page Charges: Page charges is a set price per published page incurred by authors, for instance $75 or $150 per page. The author guidelines should be transparent in the price per page authors will incur, even though you may not get the final invoice until the article is copyedited and typeset. Page charges will only be charged if the paper has undergone peer review and is ultimately accepted.
  • Publication Charges: Publication Charges is a set price per published article incurred by authors, for instance $775 per article. The author guidelines should be transparent in the price per page authors will incur, even though you may not get the final invoice until the article is copyedited and typeset. Publication Charges will only be charged if the paper has undergone peer review and is ultimately accepted.
  • Colour Charges: We have a vast majority of journals who allow authors to publish their images and figures in colour online, at no additional cost. However, some journals do charge authors to publish their images and figures in colour in the print edition. For instance, some Sage Publishing journals the first colour image is $800, and it is $200 for any additional colour images within the same contribution.

Page and publication charges remain important for the financial sustainability of some journals. For other charges that may be associated with publishing your manuscript, please refer here: What is the difference between APCs and page charges? A guide to potential costs associated with publishing your manuscript — Sage Perspectives Blog (sagepub.com)

We currently have active journals with page or publication charges. Some of these journals had page or publication charges before Sage had acquired them from other publishers, some are due to Society requirements, please see below:

Wichtig acquired journals:

IOS press acquired journals:

Society owned journals:

Other journals: