Elsevier’s tiered pricing structure will see low-income countries pay least for submissions

From January next year, researchers from lower income countries will pay less to publish in Elsevier’s open access journals. In a new pilot scheme, the publisher will structure its article processing charges (APCs) according to the gross national income per capita (GNI) of the countries in which corresponding authors are based. The changes will affect APCs across 142 open access journals.