Questions tagged [fees]
Questions concerning monetary costs associated with higher education, publishing, or other academic activities, specifically those not formally considered [tuition] or not related to standard research [funding] mechanisms.
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How did the 2012 rise in university fees in the UK affect university enrollment? [closed]
Did the number of domestic students decrease ?
Did international students start to make up a larger % of UK university enrollment?
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What are examples of trustworthy no-fees open access scientific journals where serious scientists have published? [closed]
I sometimes hear the claim there are no no-fee open access journals available in some fields. An example on this website was recently for the case of Bio Informatics / Computational Biology.
What are ...
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After a few years away from school, inactive students may need to reapply for admission. Why?
At many schools in America, undergraduate students can freely take a semester or two off. But some students might want to take a longer break: perhaps two or three years.
At many schools, after ...
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Is it normal to partially cover fees to attend the conference by PI for postdoc?
If you are working as a postdoc, would you expect your PI to cover all fees for your conference attendance?
I heard some labs cover all, but I am not sure what is the culture and conditions in here. ...
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Why are the registration fees for academic conferences so high?
I was actually thinking about submitting one of my papers in a conference which is to be held in Spain (LATA 2014) but alas I might not be able to do so since the registration fees for this conference ...
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Publishing a paper without paying an article-processing charge
I need to publish my paper in law but, to my knowledge, journals charge money in the form of an article-processing charge. Any tips on how to publish your research for free?
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Withdrawing paper from competition track of a conference due to the fee?
A few months back, I came across a competition page which asked for a solution approach for a new and tricky dataset in the domain (I will keep all the details anonymous).
Now, it was a new area of ...
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What are the fees when submitting to a paper to a conference as an independent researcher?
I am very inexperienced in this process and could only find generic information.
I would like to submit a paper to a particular conference, and I am not sure if there are fees tied to the submission. ...
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Conference fee, travel costs and accommodation fees for Keynote Speaker and Technical Program Committees [duplicate]
I was invited to attend a conference as a keynote speaker and TPC panel. The sent message began:
On behalf of the organizing committee, we are honored to invite you as a keynote speaker and the TPC ...
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What can I do if I can't pay the fee to have my paper published as open access?
I have had a paper accepted to a journal. In the submission process, there was a question whether the paper would be Open Access, I said yes, thinking there was no fee!
After the acceptance, the ...
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Covering application fees for peer review, when your university declines to proceed, but expert in the field consider the work excellent
Situation - I produced a MSc thesis in applied data science (I mean, using data science but applied on a certain domain X), which was A-graded. An expert in the field X said it is excellent and worthy ...
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how much is a typical budget for publication costs in a five-year project that requires open access?
I need to budget the cost for publication for a European grant that requires open access, either green or gold, and I am struggling to figure out the costs over a five year period. Some ...
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How to handle payment requests from a predatory journal?
I sent an article to the journal at a promotional price. The article has already been published. They asked for a surcharge for the review and I paid but according to them I was late and they want to ...
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Why do " 'inclusive' access" textbooks normally self-destruct after a year or so?
Background information (you can skip this)
There's a technology called automatic textbook billing, or "inclusive" access (IA). It is also known by many other names.
With IA, students are ...
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Is it ethical for a lecturer to require students to purchase an online learning kit where kit is used for course assessments?
I am taking a course in a may-not-be-top-but-still-decent university located in North America. The course lecturer forces us to pay for an online learning kit from Pearson by adopting all the graded ...