Free APC Journals helps researchers find open access journals that charge no article processing charge. This page explains the limits of what the directory can tell you.
1. General information only
Everything on the site is published in good faith for general information. It is not professional, legal or career advice. Decisions about where to submit your work, and how a journal will count in your institution's assessment, should be checked with your institution, funder or supervisor.
2. No endorsement of journals
Listing a journal means it met our published criteria when we last checked it. It does not mean we endorse the journal, vouch for its editorial decisions, or guarantee it will review or publish your manuscript.
3. Fees, policies and indexing can change
Journals change their fees, policies, editorial boards and websites, and abstracting and indexing databases add and remove titles throughout the year. Our records are refreshed regularly but can lag behind those changes.
Before you submit, confirm on the journal's own website that it still charges no APC or other fees. Confirm indexing on the database's own site: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, DOAJ, UGC CARE or whichever your institution recognises.
4. The transparency score is not an impact metric
The transparency score on each journal page measures how completely a journal documents its own policies, such as peer review, licensing, preservation and identifiers. It is not an impact factor, a ranking or a measure of quality, selectivity or prestige, and should not be used as one.
5. Advertising disclosure
The site shows advertisements served by Google AdSense and its partners. These ads pay part of the cost of keeping the directory free. We do not choose the individual ads, and their appearance is not an endorsement of any product, service or publisher. Ads are kept visually separate from journal information and never influence it.
If you see an ad that seems misleading or inappropriate, for example one promoting a predatory publisher, please tell us so we can block it. How advertising uses cookies is explained in our privacy policy.
6. Journal services disclosure
The site's founder, Yogesh Singh Bisht, offers paid journal publishing and indexing services, and the site promotes them. Those services are entirely separate from the directory: being a client has no effect on whether or how a journal is listed. No one can guarantee acceptance by any indexing database, and we do not.
7. External links
Journal pages link to publishers' websites, and other pages link to external services. We have no control over those sites, and are not responsible for their content, availability, fees or privacy practices.
8. Errors and corrections
We work hard to keep the directory accurate, but mistakes happen. If a record is wrong, out of date, or a journal has started charging authors, use the contact form or email [email protected] and we will investigate and fix it.