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Author Fees

When you submit your manuscript our Submission Program will not allow authors to proceed with their submissions without checking the following boxes.

Not Been Published Elsewhere
Author Guidelines
Copyright Agreement
Submission Checklist
Potential Fees

However, many authors fail to read the required information. The journal recommends that you read these sections, specifically, the Potential Fees section which I have summarized below.

Proofs will be supplied to the corresponding author to check for accuracy of the typesetting. Author(s) will be charged for alterations to the proofs beyond those needed by typesetting errors. For your information, in over 3 decades of publishing the journal, authors have been charged only twice for excessive changes.

EarlyOnlineAccess (EOA). On October 30, 2006 we instituted a policy referred to as EOA. This means that articles will appear online ahead of assigned hard copy publication schedule. Moreover, authors will receive a clean PDF of the manuscript months ahead of the publication date with the correct publication date. This fee is $180.

UnlockOnlineAccess (UOA). Previously, only journal subscribers had online access. Nonsubscribers paid a small fee to access manuscripts; however, with UOA, your manuscript will be unlocked online when the normal rotation of the manuscript occurs, meaning that when the manuscript appears in print, it will be accessible online to anyone willing to pay a $20 fee. This feature allows immediate access to any researcher, reporter, or interested person. This fee is $140. Neitherthe EOA or the UOA are optional.

When we receive corrected proofs and payment, you will receive a clean PDF copy for immediate professional use. In addition, your article will appear online immediately for online access by journal subscribers. This will allow you to share your publication with colleagues and be quoted months in advance of the hard copy appearing in the journal. The fee for this service was also noted when you submitted your manuscript.

PDF Policy

Regarding the PDF, you will be able to print copies of your manuscript, email it to colleagues and Listservs, and/or have it available for personal and professional use. However, due to copyright laws, you cannot use the PDF for profit or potential profit. This includes, but is not limited to: 1) re-sale, 2) publish in another publication media (book, manual, or journal), or 3) have businesses, corporations or companies distribute at conferences or online. These uses all require publisher approval and will include a fee. If you are unsure, please contact the Editor. Moreover, should you violate use of the copyright laws PNG Publications reserves the right to withdraw this specific limited use of the PDF manuscript and to pursue copyright infringement to the full extent of the law.

PubMed Central

Also, as many of you know, Congress has required the NIH to revise its Public Access Policy that applies to grantees and all investigators supported in whole or in part by direct funds from NIH. The law requires NIH to ensure that all peer-reviewed manuscripts based on research supported by NIH funds are posted on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central, to be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. Therefore, despite that your manuscript will go online immediately where researchers can access for a small fee, there is a 12-month embargo for PubMed to NOT place online free of charge.

Finally, for all accepted manuscripts, we will continue to charge $20 per table, figure, and/or appendix as we have for over a decade.

If additional questions arise, feel free to contact the Journal offices.