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Instructions for discretionary APC waiver applications 
 
Waiver policy 
Open access journals published by Springer Nature offer article processing charge (APC) waivers and 
discounts to authors from low-income and lower-middle-income countries. 
Discretionary APC waivers will also be considered for other authors on a case-by-case basis, and may 
be granted in cases of financial need. All applications for discretionary APC waivers should be made 
prior to, or at the point of, manuscript submission; requests made during the review process or after 
acceptance will not be considered. 
 
Instructions for requesting a discretionary waiver 
Prospective authors who wish to be considered for a discretionary APC waiver should submit a 
request prior to, or at the point of submission to the journal, carefully following these instructions. 
The following manuscript details should also be provided: 
1. If you have started the process of submitting your manuscript to the journal, the 
identification number of your manuscript as it appears in the submission system. 
2. The names of the research funders that supported the research described in your research 
and the names of any institutions with whom you and your co-authors are affiliated. 
You will also need to provide one of the following pieces of documentation relating to your APC 
funding situation: 
3. Primary documentation of the corresponding author’s funding status and remaining grant 
funds. For each of the grants that you currently receive, or received while researching your 
article, please send scanned copies of original documents from your funders, containing 
details of: 
a. Funding agency 
b. Title of grant 
c. Names of grantees 
d. Allocation of grant funds 
e. Balance of available funds 
f. Date of grant expiration 
http://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/journal-policies
 
4. If you are not in receipt of any research funding please send a scanned copy of a letter from 
your head of department or head of finance, confirming that you are not currently in receipt 
of any research funding. This should be signed and printed on headed paper. 
Note: We only require documentation of funding (or lack thereof) relating to the research presented 
in this manuscript. 
Copies of these documents should be emailed to apcwaivers@springernature.com. We will be 
unable to proceed with a waiver application without full primary documentation of your funding 
status. 
 
Waiver eligibility 
Upon receipt of documents confirming an author’s funding status we will determine whether to 
grant a discretionary APC waiver on case by case basis. 
 
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