If you are a corresponding author affiliated with Sultan Qaboos University, you can publish your article open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio. The Fees Support the staff and students who meet the following criteria:

• The manuscript must be published in a First Quartile (Q1) journal indexed in Scopus.
• Only original research articles and review papers are eligible for funding under this program.
• Funding is limited to SQU-affiliated corresponding authors as indicated in the published paper. In cases where the corresponding author is not affiliated with SQU, the first author must be an SQU affiliate to be eligible for support.
• The support is granted exclusively to SQU staff members or officially registered SQU students at the time of submitting the funding application.
• The SQU affiliation must be clearly and exclusively stated in the published paper. Papers that include dual or multiple institutional affiliations for the SQU author are not eligible for funding.
• Each eligible SQU author may apply for Springer Nature Article Processing Charge (APC) support for a maximum of one paper per funding cycle.
• Multiple funding sources are not permitted. Submission of the application constitutes a formal declaration by the applicant that no financial support or compensation has been received from any other funding source within the University for the same publication.
• Applicants are required to complete and update their research profile in the Scopus database, ensuring that Sultan Qaboos University is correctly listed as the institutional affiliation in their profile.

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Notice to Researchers:

In addition to the university’s agreement with Springer Nature, there is a pilot initiative for publishing in selected Springer Nature open access journals.

This initiative applies to only 64 journals, under which researchers from the Sultanate of Oman receive a 25% discount on publication fees in these journals only, as part of the open access service.

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