Journal of Financial Economics
Open Access Option


Authors of Journal of Financial Economics will have the option to pay a fee to make their article freely available to non-subscribers. In other words, authors are given the choice of making their own article Open Access, the charge for article sponsorship is $3,000. This charge is necessary to offset publishing costs - from managing article submission and peer review, to typesetting, tagging and indexing of articles, hosting articles on dedicated servers, supporting sales and marketing costs to ensure global dissemination via ScienceDirect, and permanently preserving the published journal article. The fee excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges which are additional. Authors can only select this option after their article has been accepted for publication.


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