Editorial
The financial situation of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research makes it necessary to bill authors for page charges for accepted papers submitted after October 1, 2003 in order to guarantee the continuity of the Journal.
The charge will be R$960/paper for Brazilian authors and US$320/paper for foreign authors. This fee corresponds to 39% of the editing costs of a paper with an average length of seven pages. This fee may be paid from grants and technical reserves of grants and fellowships from CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP and some Universities.
All authors are expected to pay the page charges. However, the fee will be waived if the authors contact the Journal with an appropriate justification.
Page charges will be billed to the Author for Correspondence at the time the galley proofs of the paper are sent. All papers submitted after October 1, 2003 will be required to pay page charges.
The Editors regret that it has been necessary to take this step. However, many important international journals use page charges to obtain revenue which permits them to continue to publish.
Page charges may be suspended if the Journal obtains sufficient support from national agencies.
Marco Antonio Zago
Lewis Joel Greene
João Batista Calixto
Editors
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
22 Oct 2003 -
Date of issue
Nov 2003