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Publications ContactsPublication Fees for AGU Journals
Authors can minimize potential fees before submitting a contribution for publication in any AGU journal by using the Web-accessible calculator.
- Authors who have funding are expected to help support publication and thereby help keep subscription fees low.
- Authors who do not have funding can ask for a reduction in fees or a waiver.
- All authors are expected to help support the costs of maintaining the electronic archive. Monies that are provided for “perpetual care” of the archive are set aside so that AGU will have the wherewithal to migrate the files forward as technology changes.
For more information, see Publication Fees 
for AGU journals.
For questions about fee calculations, see Publication Fee Calculator FAQ 
Author Choice for Open Access
AGU journals now offer authors the opportunity to make their articles open for others to read for free. Authors choosing this option pay a fee based on article length and number of figures; these charges are designed to offset the potential loss of subscription income. This new option, called Author Choice, provides
- Unlimited access to the article for all readers from the moment of publication,
- Permission to deposit the PDF version in institutional repositories so long as the repository accepts AGU copyright permissions, and
- Continued copyright protection to prevent unauthorized uses of the author’s work.
Author Choice is available to all authors who honor full publications charges. Cost is an additional $142.50 per publication unit for Geophysical Research Letters and $75 per publication unit for all other AGU journals. Authors will be able to use the AGU online calculator to determine their fees. The Author Choice option is not available for Reviews of Geophysics, Earth Interactions, and Nonlinear Geophysics.
Any article published since 2008 is eligible for Author Choice. For articles already published, access restrictions will be removed upon payment of the Author Choice fee. If there is sufficient interest, Author Choice may be extended to articles published in 2002–2007.