Publication

It is expensive to order colour figures and offprints when your article is published!!

Colour figures 490 euros / figure

50 offprints 324 euros

100 offprints 435 euros

Now, I understand how much they paid to publish those multiple pages of fancy electron microscope images...

I did not check, but it costs some money to make your article open access (so that not subscribers of the journal can also read your manuscript).

But if you are not publishing in all black and white, without public access, it is completely free. It does not cost to have your manuscript reviewed by reviewers. It is a volunteer work for researchers to peer-review. It gives them extra work, thus takes a lot of time, but it is a necessary step to assure the quality of the research work to be published.

Thankful to the reviewers, even though it was a long and tough way to edit my manuscript while taking classes..