To help support researchers who are unable to meet some or all of the costs associated with publishing open access, AASTEMER operates a transparent waiver policy.

To help support researchers in low-to-middle income countries, all AASTEMER journals provide full and partial waivers of article processing charges for manuscripts based on the corresponding author’s affiliation. 

AASTEMER waiver policy follows a two tier approach:

Countries listed below in Group A will receive a full (100%) waiver of article processing charges.

Countries listed below in Group B will receive a partial (50%) waiver of article processing charges. 

Waiver requests outside of these two tiers will not be considered.