“Carbon – Science and Technology” is an International multidisciplinary OPEN ACCESS research journal with a nominal Obligatory Article Charge of US $ 300 only, towards partial support of the publication of the article and production and maintenance of the database, which the authors must pay.

We have our own database of under-developed and developing countries in which not much funds are available for research and development activities. Authors from such countries can make a formal request for Article Charge Waivers. In such cases, quality of the articles will be the sole criteria for such decisions. ASIPL reserves the rights for all such decisions.

Open access publishing is a new model for scholarly journal publishing that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of all published articles. This allows all interested readers to view, download and print, and redistribute any article without a subscription, enabling greater distribution of an author's work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model. Many authors in a variety of fields have begun to realize the benefits that open access publishing can provide in terms of increasing the impact of their work.

In an open access model, the publication costs of an article are paid from the author's research budget, or by their supporting institution, or personal funds in the form of Article Charge. This Article Charge Replaces subscription charges and allows publishers to make the full-text of every published article freely available to all interested readers.

“Carbon – Science and Technology” is an Open Access journal. Publishing an article in this journal requires a nominal Article Charge of US $ 300 only which will be billed to the Corresponding Author upon acceptance of the article for publication.