Advertising Policies

The journal does not accept commercial advertisements. Other than commercial advertisements our advertising policy is consistent with the principles mentioned in the Recommendations on Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals issued by the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) which can be accessed here.

Digital Preservation

All the contents published in the Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science are preserved in Portico (an E-Journal Preservation Service), which provides permanent digital archiving for electronic scholarly journals. Portico is a not-for-profit digital preservation service that provides permanent digital archiving for electronic scholarly journals to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.

Waiver and discounts

OSP is an open-access journal and requires Article Processing Charges (APCs) to be paid after acceptance. To support the researchers who are unable to meet some or all of the costs associated with publishing the journal adopted a transparent waiver policy.

• Group A: The journal provides a complete waiver in article processing charges to authors from low-income countries.
• Group B: In addition to that, the journal provides a 30% reduction in article processing charges in case the author(s) of an article does not have the funding required to cover these charges. The authors should provide appropriate documents (such as a signed letter from the institutional Head) in support of their claim of not having sufficient funding. The decision to approve or decline the waiver request is based on the authenticity of the evidence the author provides to the journal. The journal reserve the right to approve or reject any waiver application.
• Group C: All the editors and the reviewer who handled at least 5 manuscripts in a calendar year can apply for a 20% discount in APC.

Please request your waiver or discount at the point of submission and the requests made during the review process or after acceptance will not be considered.

Editors of the individual journals are empowered to provide an appropriate waiver and the authors can send waiver requests to the editors of the individual journals.

Complaints and appeals

Authors & readers can submit their complaints/appeals to the editors or the publisher through the complaint form provided on the contact us page of individual journals. All the complaints will assign a unique complaint number by the publisher. Authors/readers can use complaint numbers for further follow-up.

If you do not receive a response to your complaint within 48 hrs or if you are not satisfied with the response please write to the publisher on email: opensciencepublishersllp@gmail.com, please mention your unique complaint number in follow-up emails.