Article processing charges
No subscription or pay-per-view charges apply to any content published in The Lancet Microbe. In order to cover the costs of reviewing, copy editing, layout, and online hosting and archiving, the journal charges an article processing fee of $5000 upon acceptance of submitted research articles (no fee applies to Comment or Correspondence).
Authors whose main funder is located either in group A or B countries of the Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) or in a country with a low UNDP human development index will be exempt from payment. For authors with no formal funding, the country of origin of the majority of authors' institutions will be taken as the source country. If there is no majority country, the corresponding author's country will be so designated.
The editorial decision to accept is taken well before any request is made as to the ability to pay. Payments are processed by a department unconnected to The Lancet Microbe's editorial department.
Copyright and reuse
All content is published under Creative Commons licensing, which enables authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work, provided full credit is given to them as originators. Authors will be offered a choice of two licences (CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND) depending on whether or not they wish to allow commercial reuse of their work and whether or not they wish to allow others to alter their work in the course of its reuse. Authors will be asked to sign a licence to permit our publisher, Elsevier, to publish the work in The Lancet Microbe.
