From the Fascism site: MA and PhD students a 50% discount. Not many journals have language specific to students at this point in time, although student discounts may often be subsumed in the category of discounts for authors who cannot afford to pay.

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Morrison, H. (2015). Student discounts. Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir Les Savoirs Communs. Retrieved from https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/22/student-discounts/

From the Fascism site:  “Authors of articles of outstanding quality are eligible for a waiver, to the discretion of the editors of the journal”.

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Pre-impact-factor discount: Nature Conservation

Note: Open access fees will be waived for all submissions published in the first four issues of Nature Conservation and will be reduced with 25 % until the journal will be covered by the ISI Web of Science.  All papers published in the first issues will be later ISI covered and will have an Impact factor when the journal receives it.

Introductory discount: Brill‘s language for 4 new open journals is introductory discount. (Brill Open Biology, Brill Open Humanities, Brill Open Law and Brill Open Social Sciences). This terminology is a good practice as it will help to avoid future shocks when journals become successful and publishers increase prices. For medium to long-term budgeting purposes it is important to note that for journals like this today’s price may be very different from tomorrow’s price.

Brill’s Fascism: The APCs (Article Publication Charges) for this journal are reduced to EUR 645 / USD 855 (excluding 21% VAT) for CC-BY-NC licenses in 2015.  The 2014 price was 1,700 USD, so this is about half-price. I wonder if this is really temporary or if it reflects that Brill’s original pricing was too high for authors in this area?

Science Domain International is offering 80 – 95% discounts on their base APC of $500 USD for all of their journals from April to the end of May 2015. Low or free-for-now pricing is a common strategy for new publishers aiming to build their repertoire and reputation. These are great deals while they are available, but for long-term budgeting purposes it may be best not to assume that this will continue.

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This post is for journals and/or publishers with notable price increases from 2014 to 2015.

Journal of Vision: 25% increase in page charge from $100 to $125 USD effective for submissions after Jan. 1, 2015

Libertas Academica: average 18% to 56% price increases from 2014 to 2015 (separate post)

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Online: price increase from 7,000 PKR in 2014 to 12,000 PKR in 2015, a 70% increase.

Research in Applied Economics: price doubled from $100 to $200 USD.

Research Revolution: 25% increase from 1,000 to 1,250 INR for a single author  (1,500 if co-authors)

Review of Research: 30% increase from 1,000 to 1,300 INR

Scientia Agricola: 16% increase from $60 US to $70 US per page for non-subscribers

Theranostics: 32% increase from 1,250 AUD to 1,650 AUD

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Morrison, H. (2015). Notable APC price increases. Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir Les Savoirs Communs. Retrieved from https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/22/notable-apc-price-increases/

Libertas Academica offers a 20% discount for authors publishing a second paper in the same journal in the same year. In their words:

Discounts for former authors: Authors who have published a paper in the past 12 months and paid an undiscounted fee may receive a 20% discount on the full fee of their next paper. Authors must complete an application and receive an email confirming application acceptance before manuscript submission.

. From: http://www.la-press.com/author_resources.php?folder_id=121 viewed July 3, 2015.

The following language from the International Journal of Innovative Research and Development makes it easy to picture the author negotiations that must have led to this FAQ. It’s also a good example of something I’ve just noticed this year, a loyalty discount for authors publishing more than one paper in the same journal. I’ll add another column to our list of variations for the loyalty discount.

from: http://www.ijird.com/index.php/ijird/pages/view/faq

IS THE PUBLICATION FEE NEGOTIABLE??

No, the publication fee is fixed.

DO YOU OFFER ANY DISCOUNT?? 

If yes, what is the condition for availing a discount?
Yes, we give a discount of 10%.
In this case, the contributing author has to publish two papers in two consecutive issues (conforming to all the norms of the IJIRD) without availing the IJIRD membership program. When for the third time he/she will publish his/her paper, will unquestionably get a reduction of 10%.
NB: In this case the concerned author has to be one of the contributors and declare his copyrights in all particulars.

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Morrison, H. (2015). Negotiating authors and the loyalty discount. Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir Les Savoirs Communs. Retrieved from https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/21/negotiating-authors-and-the-loyalty-discount/