Article Management System Transparent pricing, in writing.
Annual platform plans for venues, per-paper publication processing for independent venues that publish, and a single processing charge for authors on our own venues — every price stated before anyone pays.
No setup charge on the platform plans · a license covers one venue for 12 months · nothing renews without your confirmation.
Two ways venues work with us — two fee models
Who runs the editorial process decides who pays what. Both models are stated openly below.
Your venue, your editorial control
Your chairs and editors run submissions, peer review, decisions, and your own author-fee policy. Technology Fist provides the platform and, if you publish here, the production infrastructure.
- An annual platform plan (below), and
- if you publish through the platform: a one-time venue publishing setup fee plus a per-paper publication processing fee — both charged to the venue, never to your authors.
- Your authors pay you under your own policies — platform APCs do not apply.
Under our editorial umbrella
Venues owned by Technology Fist — or independent venues accepted into the umbrella after meeting our workflow and quality requirements — run under our direct editorial oversight and publishing programme.
- Authors pay a single Article Processing Charge (APC) through the platform, only after acceptance.
- Full Technology Fist process: moderation, ethics framework, production, and we prepare and submit your indexing applications for you.
- Want your venue under the umbrella? Talk to us about the additional workflow requirements.
One platform. Four plans.
Conference and journal organizers subscribe to AMS as annual software plans. Everything is delivered online — your venue is provisioned here and runs here for the full term.
AMS Core
Submission portal, peer-review workflow, decisions, camera-ready handling, and organizer dashboards for one venue. No program builder, website, payment integration or publishing.
- Unlimited submissions & reviewers
- Full peer-review workflow
- Email notifications at every step
- Fee tooling built in
AMS Core Plus
Everything in Core, plus the program builder, a hosted public website and payment integration for author fees. No publishing.
- Program builder, schedule & speakers pages
- Hosted venue website & CFP pages, custom theme
- Payment integration: APCs, invoices, receipts
- Clean venue URLs
AMS Core Plus & Publishing
Everything in Core Plus, plus the Publishing Module: DOI-registered publication, a permanent digital-library page, citations, and metadata exports.
- Hosted venue website, CFP & program pages
- Custom theme, branding & clean venue URLs
- DOI reservation & registration pipeline
- Author proofing workflow
- Issue / proceedings volumes
- Citation styles, BibTeX/RIS, OAI-PMH
| Compare plans | AMS Core | AMS Core Plus | AMS Core Plus & Publishing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submissions, peer review & decisions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Program builder & schedule | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosted public website | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payment integration (APCs, invoices, receipts) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| IEEE eCopyright (eCF) integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ORCID sign-in for authors & reviewers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Similarity checks - iThenticate/Turnitin (venue's own account) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publishing: DOIs & digital library | — | — | ✓ |
| TF umbrella eligibility (after checklist) | — | — | ✓ |
Optional modules — the Federation Reviewer Network, portable peer review between venues, indexing & compliance readiness, and the live event layer (registration & verifiable certificates) sit outside the plans and are switched on per venue on request. See the full feature list.
Custom — a negotiated feature set for organisations whose agreement does not fit a tier (multiple venues, special integrations, institutional terms). Talk to us.
Prices in USD, exclusive of any applicable taxes. A license covers one venue for 12 months from activation and does not renew without your confirmation. Full commercial terms and checkout: techfist.org/pricing.
How publishing works — the two models
accepted → camera-ready → published on the record. Then: who runs production, fees and indexing?
You keep control - we provide the machinery
- Your APC policy and prices; authors pay you (your own gateways or the TF collection service).
- TF produces the DOI-registered edition and digital-library pages; you are billed a flat per published paper processing fee - never your authors.
- Indexing (Scopus, WoS, DOAJ…) is your application, under your ISSN/ISBN.
We run the whole pipeline for you
- Authors pay one platform APC to TF - it covers production, DOI registration, hosting, and preparing and submitting your indexing applications (Scopus, DOAJ, Web of Science and similar). Those databases decide for themselves; we do the work, not the deciding.
- Available on the Publishing plan after the umbrella requirements checklist is completed and verified - quality gates, not paperwork.
- Suited to venues that want publishing handled end to end.
Preprints follow their own path: posting is free, and includes moderated public posting plus the signed community-review feature, controlled by the author. No plan required.
Publication processing for independent venues
When an independent venue publishes through the platform (AMS Core Plus & Publishing), production is billed to the venue — simple and per-paper, so a small proceedings costs little and nothing is charged to your authors by us:
Need custom features, migration, or hands-on support? We provide both — ask for a quote. Venues that prefer the full-service model can apply to join the Technology Fist umbrella instead.
Preprints: free to post, two things included
Posting a preprint is separate from both models above — there is no subscription and no APC. Posting is free on every collection: no subscription, no APC, no posting fee.
The same infrastructure that carries a published journal article:
- Moderator screening for scope, completeness and integrity
- Registered DOI, resolving permanently
- Public preprint page and open-access hosting, kept indefinitely
- Version history — each version separately citable
- Citation & metadata services: BibTeX/RIS, OAI-PMH, indexer-ready XML
- Automatic linking to the version of record on publication
Signed reviews by platform members, open for anyone to read:
- Reviews carry the reviewer's real name, affiliation, ORCID and competing interests — never anonymous
- The author chooses: approve each review first (default), publish immediately, or reviews off
- The author can reply publicly to any review
- A withdrawn review leaves a dated public notice — the record is never quietly rewritten
- Reviews are readers' opinions, not an editorial decision by Technology Fist
Each preprint collection sets its own posting fee and many are free; the exact amount is shown before submission. Nothing further is charged — not for extra versions, not for reviews, and never for reading. See the preprint policies →
What happens after you subscribe
Choose the plan that fits your venue. Every price and term is stated before you pay.
Your venue workspace is created here and your organizer account receives its credentials by email, typically within minutes.
The full submission-to-publication cycle for your venue, hosted by us, with support by email throughout the term.
For authors: the Article Processing Charge
On Technology Fist-owned venues, authors pay one charge, once, and only after acceptance. It is a platform-usage fee — it covers your paper's use of AMS and the publishing process, never the editorial decision.
What the APC covers
- Submission & peer-review infrastructure
- Production processing of the accepted manuscript
- DOI registration & permanent linking
- Digital-library hosting
- Citation & metadata services (BibTeX/RIS, OAI-PMH)
- Each venue displays its exact APC before you submit.
- Charged only after editorial acceptance, securely inside AMS.
- An APC never buys acceptance — decisions happen in peer review.
Questions about licensing or the umbrella model?
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