Integrated Publishing Association Journals are operated by academia, researchers, scientists and post graduate students of various Universities and research organization. Being a self supported organization it needs wide variety of support from the authors and other sources both financially and in promotion support. Our aim is to provide this online platform free of cost for the authors throughout the life of this journal system starting from the first day of its inception. What we want to offer is support for the authors to showcase their research works by all means and we hope we will do this. Our journals aims to provide a platform for the researchers and academia to publish their works with wide reach and we are achieving this with fullest efforts.
Because of the reason that we are self funded many of our operations reasons need external support, we solicit the support as registration fee. We feel to that the registration fee can be utilized for the operations of our journal system rather than charging the authors as article processing fee. Our journals are self designed, self managed until now but we are reaching a stage that it need to be outsourced due to the growth of the journals and increase in number of articles received.
Any one who is doing active research or serving in academic field can become registered author of this association by paying a small subscription fee which will support the noble need of the journal system. Most of the expenses of our journals fall under the category of operational expense such as hosting charges , domain management expense, editorial expenses, internet bandwidth charges, copy editing charges, etc. To run the site faster we are in need of a good hosting and few infrastructure which requires lot of funding, such a few unavoidable expenses are to be taken care of by our association. In this regard we request authors and fellow researchers to share the expenses in the form of registration fee and keep this platform free of cost to most of the authors. Presently we had published nearly 850 articles and served more than 4000 authors in a span of one and half years (updated December, 2011) and almost 75% of the authors are not registered authors and served free of cost.
Registration benefits
Unlike any other publishing houses we do not charge per article charges, an author can pay an yearly registration fee through which he can publish any number of articles subjected to reviewer acceptance. Registration fee is charged on the basis of the profession of the author and its widely categorized so that any one can pay and support our journals growth. Concept of charging yearly registration fee is to avoid per paper article processing charge and to optimize the publishing cost, an author who pays Rs.2000 and publish 5 articles an year logically spends less than Rs.100 per author per paper and other authors in the article are publishing free of cost.
Registering with journal system will enable the authors to publish research articles through our journal system for one full year without any additional fee and the amount will be utilised for keeping the journal free to access for the researchers across the globe. Copy editing for one article will be done free of cost after the acceptance of article, presently we are issuing DOI to all articles starting from January, 2011 which is a first of its kind approach in any start up journals.
Registration fee mentioned below are per year and the author can publish any number of research articles in any of our journals ( presently we offer 7 journals and planning to make it 10 in a month of time) for one full year.
Registration fee
We are charging a nominal fee to become our registered authors; the revised fee structure is as follows
Research Scholars
| Article with single author | Rs. 1000 |
| Article with more than 2 authors | Rs.1500 |
Academia/ Industry Professionals
| Articles with single author | Rs.2000 |
| Articles with two to four authors | Rs.2500 |
| Articles with more than four authors | Rs.3000 |
Foreign authors
| Articles with single author | USD 60 |
| Articles with multiple author | USD 80 |
| Research Scholars from other countries | USD 60 |
Note: All registration are valid for one year from date of payment automatically.
Registration fee can be paid through the following modes
- Direct cash deposit to our account
- Through draft/ cheque
- Internet banking/ Wire transfer
- Through Credit Card/Debit cards
To pay the registration fee through credit/ debit card click here and download the registration form for bank details.
All foreign authors can pay the regisration fee through our online payment processing system or they can send the amount via Western Union Money transfer/ Wire transfer.
Registration policies:
- For single author articles it is advised that the author should be a registered author of our journal system.
- Academia authors should pay only academia registration fee even if they do research projects, research membership is meant only for full time research scholars.
- For articles with four or more authors at least two authors may be our members.
- It is obligatory that for getting an article published at least one of the authors if there are three are more authors or the corresponding author should register with our association .
- Our editorial board gives preference to publish our registered articles first after peer review process than non members accepted articles. Initial processing of articles is common for both members and non members.
- Becoming our registered author does not make the author eligible for getting published, payment of registration fee will not confirm the article publication. All articles will be accepted for publication only after receiving the positive reviewer comments.
- Research scholars and students are eligible to publish only one article in an year, other articles may be considered within the year if the editorial board deems it necessary.
- Academia authors are eligible to publish two research articles per year subjected to the peer review of the submitted articles.
- Corresponding author may be our registered in any article submitted for publication.
- Registration fee is valid only for one year from the date of payment or receipt generation and paid fee is non- refundable in any case.
- Our Terms of conditions and privacy policy which is available here , all registrations are subjected to our TOS mentioned.
- All registration related queries should be addressed only [email protected]
Our team is taking stependous efforts to bring the journals to one of the most respected journals, we are also promoting our journals in various forms and modes which requires funding. Editorial team of IPA journals request authors to support our journals in the form of registration and to share the benefit of the association by sharing the expense.
For details of payment other than online payment please send a mail requesting details to [email protected] .
For further details about registration and to know about various other ways you can support us please send a mail to [email protected] . To have a look at the various forms of registration do download the Registration form here and forward it with the relevant payment.
Disclaimer:
Integrated Publishing Association is not a Society or an association but a group of academia and researchers sharing common interest of disseminating scientific information via online open access peer reviewed journals. Registration fee paid towards registeration with IPA is only to make the author eligible for publishing articles in IPA journals and it does not represents to be a member of IPA and also it should not be misinterpreted as membership of a society or an association. The fee paid is towards the expenses incurred towards managing the site, operating the site, funding the growth of site, article processing expenses, other miscellaneous expenses that are to be shared by the authors who publish through us. It is a business model in which a journal system is maintained by a team of academia and researchers through which authors and researchers can publish their research work by sharing the expenses incurred by operating the journals as membership fee. IPA journals provide a platform for researchers to publish their research work at optimal cost incurred in the publishing process.
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