Author Fees and APC Policy

Journal of Education, Psychology and Inclusion (JEPI) is committed to transparency in all matters relating to submission, review, and publication. Information regarding any author-facing charges is stated clearly on the journal website in order to ensure that authors are informed before submitting their work.

At present, JEPI does not charge any manuscript submission fee, editorial processing fee, article processing charge (APC), publication fee, page charge, colour charge, or any other mandatory author fee at any stage of the editorial or publication process.

Accordingly, authors may submit, revise, and publish their manuscripts in JEPI without payment of any fee under the journal’s current policy.

JEPI reserves the right to revise its fee policy in the future if required for journal development, editorial sustainability, digital preservation, indexing support, platform maintenance, or other legitimate publishing needs. If an APC or any other author-facing charge is introduced at a later stage, the journal will update this policy clearly on the website before the revised policy takes effect. Any such update will specify the nature of the charge, the amount, the stage at which it becomes payable, and any applicable waiver or reduction provisions. DOAJ’s transparency principles explicitly expect journals to state author fees clearly, and where future charges are likely, to say so openly.

Editorial decisions at JEPI are based solely on scholarly merit, originality, relevance to the journal’s scope, methodological quality, clarity, and compliance with ethical and editorial standards. Present or future fee arrangements shall not influence editorial evaluation, peer review, or publication decisions. This separation between fees and editorial decision-making is also part of recognized transparency standards for journals.

If fee waivers, discounts, or special provisions are adopted in the future, the eligibility criteria and procedure for requesting them will be stated clearly on the journal website. Transparency standards expect journals to disclose not only fees but also waiver conditions where applicable.

This policy should be read together with the journal’s pages on submissions, open access, copyright and licensing, peer review, publication ethics, and archiving.