To provide open access, journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. 

ILS offers a 50% discount off all page charges for manuscripts of all corresponding authors who reside in countries which are categorized as low-income economies by the World Bank.  To see if you qualify to the discount, please refer to the complete list of these countries click here.

Articles Processing Charges (APC) only become due after an article has been both reviewed and accepted for publication.  Therefore, submission of an article is not a guarantee that it will be published.  The final decision on the manuscript is made by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of at least two independent peer-review reports.

Other service fees for activities such as Quick Track Services, Animated Abstracts, Color Figure, Figure Improvement or Language Editing are optional and are only charged as and when these services are availed.