Libertas Academica encourages academic research institutions and departments, corporations, funding bodies and societies to become members of our new institutional membership program.  Institutional membership offers these benefits:

• Reduced administrative delays prior to publication of each paper and faster publication

• Discounted article processing fee

• Membership fee is due on acceptance of the first article submitted by researchers affiliated with your institution.

• Only authors affiliated with the institution may make use of the institutional membership.  Authors must contact the publisher directly to make use of the discount.  All requests to use the discount will be verified with the institutional contact person.

• Article processing fees are deducted from the pre-paid membership fee less the discount offered.

• There are no additional hidden costs or joining fees.

• Credit is carried over until it is used up from year to year.

• Institutions will receive a statement of their credit remaining upon request.  

• Institutional membership fees are an advance on article processing fees which cannot be refunded and can only be redeemed on publication.

• The minimum fee is US$3,300 and the greater the membership fee the greater is the corresponding discount to members of the institution.  

• Each application to use the institutional membership discount will be verified by Libertas Academica with a designated institutional contact person.  Unsuccessful applicants will be charged the standard applicable article processing fee.

• US$3,300 (5% standard article processing fee discount)

• US$5,100  (10% standard article processing fee discount)

• US$6,700 (15% standard article processing fee discount)

• US$10,100 (20% standard article processing fee discount)

• US$13,500 (25% standard article processing fee discount)

• Jackson State University Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Authors should direct enquiries to Dr Raphel D. Isokpehi.