Publication fee waivers for authors in Namibia

Wiley and Taylor & Francis both apply a 50% reduction for corresponding authors in Namibia.

Publisher policies checked 1 August 2026

Namibia gets the same treatment at both publishers

50%Wiley

50%Taylor & Francis

Eligibility is read from the corresponding author's affiliation. Neither publisher applies these reductions to hybrid journals.

Every publisher we have checked

Publisher	For Namibia	Hybrid	How it is applied
ElsevierResearch4Life	Not stated	No	Automatic
WileyResearch4Life	50% off	No	Automatic
Taylor & FrancisWorld Bank income class plus a GDP ceiling	50% off	No	Request required
Springer NatureWorld Bank income class plus a GDP ceiling	Not stated	Not stated	Request required
SageResearch4Life; some journals use World Bank income levels instead	Not stated	No	Automatic
IOP PublishingWorld Bank income class	Not stated	Yes	Automatic or on request
PLOSResearch4Life	Not stated	Not stated	Automatic through the Global Equity agreement
Oxford University PressResearch4Life, EIFL and government affordability metrics	Not stated	No	Automatic
The Royal SocietyOpen Access Equity	No fee	Yes	Automatic
Microbiology SocietyEIFL	No fee	Yes	Automatic
De Gruyter BrillEIFL (Brill)	No fee	Yes (Brill)	Automatic

Seven publishers publish a policy but not a country list. We record the rule and link to the source rather than guess which countries it covers.

Three things that catch authors out

The waiver follows the corresponding author, not the paper

If a co-author abroad is listed as corresponding, the reduction is lost — even when the research and every other author sit in Namibia. At Elsevier it goes further: all authors must be in the same group, and a mix of Group A and Group B authors brings a full waiver down to 50%.

Hybrid journals are excluded almost everywhere

Of the eight publishers checked, only IOP Publishing extends waivers to hybrid titles. Elsewhere the reduction applies to fully open access journals only. In a hybrid journal you can still publish at no cost under the subscription route — the article simply will not be open access.

Two publishers make you ask

Wiley, Sage, Elsevier and PLOS apply the reduction automatically. Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature require a request at submission. An author who waits for the system to notice pays in full.

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Sources for this page

Wiley: Wiley — Open Access Waivers and Discounts — checked 1 August 2026
T&F: Taylor & Francis — Eligible countries — checked 1 August 2026
—: Fully open access journals. Hybrid titles are noted separately in the table.
—: Where a publisher does not publish a country list, we say so instead of inferring one.

Compare publisher policies

Waiver rules differ between publishers — who counts as the eligible author, whether hybrid journals are included, and whether you need to apply or it happens automatically.

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