EIFL has renewed and expanded its agreement with World Scientific for one year, until 2025. The renewed agreement provides waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors to publish in 148 hybrid or gold open access journals in various fields, up from 111 in the previous agreement. 

Over the last three decades, World Scientific has established itself as the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. 

EIFL has negotiated waived APCs for 26 EIFL partner countries, and discounted access APCs for 8 EIFL partner countries.

The agreement is open to corresponding authors in the following countries:

Albania, Armenia, Botswana, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Macedonia, Palestine, Senegal, Serbia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

More about the World Scientific agreement.