License, Copyright, Fee

All content in Life Science Alliance is published as open access with a CC-BY license. Copyright is retained by the author(s).

The publication fee is $3750 USD. Authors experiencing financial hardship, such as temporary loss of funding, should inform LSA’s Finance Department by emailing payments@life-science-alliance.org after submitting their manuscript. Responses are usually made within 5 business days. Inability to pay the full fee will not influence a submission's outcome. Authors should not communicate with journal editors on financial issues: publication decisions are based solely on editorial criteria and information concerning financial circumstances is not disclosed to journal editors or reviewers. Financial requests made after acceptance of a paper cannot be considered.

Life Science Alliance is unable to process cancellations, refunds, or returns of open-access fees after publication.

In addition to immediate open access, the following are included with the fee:

• Supplemental material, including inline videos
• Figure-related source data
• Rapid publication
• Deposit in PubMed Central (PMC) and mirrored in PMC international sites
• Archive in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS

Corresponding authors publishing in LSA from lower- and middle-income countries: To address equity in Open Access publishing and promote important global research, publication fees for Open Access under CC-BY license in Life Science Alliance are automatically waived for primary corresponding authors based in eligible Research4Life lower- and middle-income countries. View the full list of eligible lower- and middle-income countries here.

In addition, primary corresponding authors based in eligible World Bank Lending Low and Lower-Middle economies that are not part of Research4Life automatically receive a discount of $1200 on their publication fees.