Worldwide approximately 10 million scientists, faculty members and graduate students can access Journal of Systems and Software through institutional subscriptions.  In addition, Elsevier's ScienceDirect licenses permit all public users who are permitted by the library to walk in and use its resources to access all journals to which the institution subscribes.  In a few instances, authors have requested to make their articles freely available online to all non-subscribers. Journal of Systems and Software offers authors the option to sponsor an article and make it available online to non-subscribers via Elsevier's electronic publishing platforms.

Authors can choose this option for all articles accepted after May 2006.  Authors can only select this option after receiving notification that their article has been accepted for publication.  This prevents a potential conflict of interest where Journal of Systems and Software would have a financial incentive to accept an article.

The author charge for article sponsorship is $3,000.  This charge is necessary to offset publishing costs - from managing article submission and peer review, to typesetting, tagging and indexing of articles, hosting articles on dedicated servers, supporting sales and marketing costs to ensure global dissemination via ScienceDirect, and permanently preserving the published journal article.  The fee excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges which are additional.

Authors who have had their article accepted and who wish to sponsor their article to make it available to non-subscribers should complete and submit the order form.

When calculating subscription prices we plan to only take into account content published under the subscription model.  We do not plan to charge subscribers for author sponsored content.