ARPHA offers diamond and gold open-access publishing solutions, where the package of services and business models can be customised per journal. Below you can find further information on the Business & publishing models, Pricing plans and Services included in each plan.
ARPHA’s transparent operational models provide top-quality, inclusive and affordable journal publishing services with competitive and flexible conditions. You can find out more about our statement on high-quality, transparent, open and equitable scholarly publishing on our blog.
Please note that to be published on ARPHA, scientific journals must be compliant with the DOAJ publishing quality and ethics criteria. Please feel free to contact us at: info@pensoft.net
Business and publishing models
At ARPHA, we fully endorse the diamond open access publishing model and encourage our clients to seek the support of institutional, national and international funding bodies. However, we realise that many societies and institutions do not have access to the finances necessary to adapt to today’s technologically advanced and increasingly competitive scholarly publishing landscape and run their journals under a diamond open-access model. In the table below you can find various business models designed to match different needs and budgetary requirements.
| Business and publishing models |
Costs to the journal owner/sponsor |
Costs to authors |
| Free to publish, free to read |
Diamond Open Access |
Annual journal maintenance fee and APC |
None |
| Free to read |
Gold Open Access Classic |
Annual journal maintenance fee |
APC |
| Gold Open Access Mixed |
Annual journal maintenance fee + APC support (e.g. for eligible authors or publications) |
APC (depending on eligibility) |
| Gold Open Access Cost-Neutral (recommended for self-sustainable journals) |
None |
APC + surplus to cover the annual journal maintenance costs |
| Gold Open Access Sustainable (recommended for self-sustainable journals) |
None |
APC + surplus to cover the annual journal maintenance costs and generate a reasonable income for the journal |
Pricing plans
ARPHA offers several packages of selected modules (i.e. Submission & Peer review or Publishing), as well as End-to-end publishing solutions to cater for diverse individual cases.
For more details about what is included in each group of services, see further down below. Combinations between plans and features are negotiable.
Submission and pre-review management platform
Peer review and editorial management platform
Production management platform
End-to-end journal publishing platform
Copy editing and light-weight language editing
Typesetting and proofreading services
Semantic tagging, conversion and publication of full-text in HTML and JATS XML
Hosting, indexing and archiving
Distribution and dissemination
Third-party services integrations
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Journal promotion package
Journal development support
Integration with ARPHA Preprints platform (optional)
ONE-TIME SETUP FEE * Website and/or platform standard technical setup (individual website design, logo, article layout, cover, social media profiles, etc.
€ 1,000 Costs waived until 31/12/2024
€ 1,500 Costs waived until 31/12/2024
Ask for a quote Costs waived until 31/12/2024
EXEMPLAR TOTAL ANNUAL COST PER JOURNAL2, *
€ 3,000 (Up to 120 manuscripts per year)
€ 3,000 (Up to 25 published papers per year)
Ask for a quote Special rates available until 31/12/2024
AVERAGE PRICE PER ARTICLE *
€ 25
€ 120
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Detailed description of services per pricing plan
White-label (under own logo and imprint)
Bilingual platform and journal's website (on special order)
Email alert subscription tool
Community engagement tools: journal newsletter, news section, Editor’s Choice badges
Training for managing editors
Basic technical support and online handbook
User accounts displaying ORCID ID, Web of Science ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID
Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) integration
iThenthicate plagiarism checking tool (upon request)
Subject editor and reviewer application form
Workload statistics for reviewers and subject editors
Regular pop-up reminders for users to update their expertise
DOI registration and online publication
Data publishing, DOI and metadata for supplementary files
Submission of reference lists (open citations) to CrossRef
Assignment of DOIs to individual images (upon request)
Linking between ARPHA preprints and associated published articles
Special issues and article collections
Copy editing by native English speakers
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Typesetting and proofreading to final PDF
Full-text conversion, semantic enrichment and publication in HTML, JATS XML and PDF
XML conversion of article metadata
Article sharing and dissemination tool
Article download and citation count tool
Sub-article-level usage metrics (downloads of figures, tables, supplementary materials)
Post-publication comments and reviews
Print-on-demand of article reprints & journal issues (upon request)
Metadata export in 12+ machine-readable citation styles formats
Full-text, long-term archiving in international repositories
One-stop end-point for automated indexing and archiving in 60+ international databases
Full-text XML access via web services
Third-party opt-in integrations: Altmetrics, Dimensions, Scite.ai, Portico, Web of Science Research Recognition Service (formerly Publons), ReviewerCredits, ScienceOpen, OA SwitchBoard, ResearchGate Journal Home, Researcher App, hypothes.is, nanopublications annotation tool and more (upon request)
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APC collecting and accounting (upon request)
Consultancy and support in journal indexing and archiving
Consultancy and support in journal marketing and promotion
Extensive marketing and promotional support
Journal performance statistics
Semi-annual performance report
Annual report and recommendations on journal performance
