Publication fee is payable only if a manuscript is accepted for publication. There is no additional fee for color figures and no submission or processing charges. Instruction for payment will be sent during the publication process and invoice will be issued accordingly.
The APC for all categories is given below:
Popular Article, Success Story etc (Without DOI)
Life Member (SBER): INR 450 (USD 7)
Non-Member: INR 550 (USD 10)
Research/Review Article, Short Communication etc. (With DOI)
Life Member(SBER): INR 1500 (USD 20)
Non-Member: INR 2000 (USD 25)
*The amount is mentioned only for maximum five authors and from sixth author onward Rs. 100.00 only or equivalent amount will be charged for each author.
Note:
1. Membership of SBER is not mandatory to publish.
2. Publishing fees or waiver status should not influence editorial decision making.
3. Fee Waiver for Society life members - is applicable only if the first author of the accepted manuscript is a life member. Changing the order of Author Names and also any affiliations once the galley proof is prepared will not be permitted.
4. DOI for popular article will be charge extra amount of Rs. 200.00 only (Including GST).
5. Contact the Executive Director (Publication) for fee waiver request if any.
Contact us if you have any queries or concern by email: bioticapublications@gmail.com or WhatsApp at +91 – 98630 23086.
The journal offers partial fee waivers to authors to support early-career researchers, particularly PG/Ph.D. scholars who are genuinely unable to pay the prescribed publication charges. Authors wishing to apply for a fee waiver must submit their request immediately after manuscript submission. Fee waiver requests received after the manuscript has been accepted for publication will not be considered under any circumstances.
BIOTICA Journals are Open Access journal accessible for free on the Internet. We guarantee that no university library or individual reader will ever have to buy a subscription or pay any pay-per-view fees to access articles in the electronic version of the journal. There is hence no revenue at BIOTICA neither from the sale of subscriptions to the electronic version of the journal, advertising revenue, sell reprints, any other institutional or organizational support nor from pay-per-view fees.
Yet, the online publication process does involve costs including those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, DOI and archiving. To cover these costs, the journals depend on Publication Fees.