Journal of Transdisciplinary Biomedicine publishes authors' articles using subscription (pay-per-view) model which readers are required to pay for the access to the articles.
Journal of Transdisciplinary Biomedicine also offers option to authors to opt for Open Access (OA). Articles published with OA licence are freely available online without limits, immediately upon publication. The OA service is made possible by article processing charges (APC) which is part of the manuscript submission process to cover a range of publishing services provided such as article production and hosting, abstracting and indexing services, customer service, and others. Authors are required to make the decision of whether to opt for OA before publication, upon editorial acceptance of author’s manuscript following the peer-review process. If author decided to opt for OA, APC is payable and is charged to either the author, or author’s funder, institution or employer.
The current APCs of Journal of Transdisciplinary Biomedicine is as follows:
| similarity and differences | Subscription (pay-per-view) | open access (OA) |
|---|---|---|
| Article processing charges (APC)* |
N/A |
USD375 |
| Availability | Purchase-based per article | Freely available |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) |
| Copyright Owner | Publisher | Author |
| Reviewer reward | √ | √ |