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License Agreement

Last updated 18 Sep 2026

This License Agreement applies to any individual or institution registering a conference or journal to be hosted on Article Management System, operated by Technology Fist.

  • You confirm you are authorized to register this conference/journal on behalf of its organizing committee or institution.
  • Technology Fist grants you the right to use Article Management System's submission, review, and (where enabled) program, website, payment and publication tools for the conference/journal you register, for as long as its license/subscription period remains active. The features available follow the package subscribed (AMS Core; AMS Core Plus; AMS Core Plus & Publishing; or a Custom agreement), as enabled on the platform by Technology Fist to match that subscription. Each plan also carries a submission capacity band (for example up to 200, 400, 600, or 1000 submissions per license period), chosen at registration and shown with its price before payment; a band can be upgraded at any time by paying the difference between bands, and venues licensed before capacity bands were introduced remain uncapped for their current term. A journal's renewal is priced by the plan being renewed; at renewal a journal may also switch between AMS Core and AMS Core Plus for the new period (moving onto or off the Publishing package is arranged with Technology Fist directly).
  • You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you submit at registration (conference name, dates, scope, fees) and for communicating Article Management System's policies to your authors, reviewers, and committee.
  • Hosting fees, renewal fees, and any publication fees are as displayed at the time of registration or renewal, and are described further in the Refund Policy.
  • If you enable the separate Publishing platform for your conference/journal, you additionally authorize Technology Fist to register accepted papers with a permanent DOI and deposit their metadata with Crossref, as described further in the Privacy Policy.
  • Technology Fist may suspend a conference/journal's license for non-payment, policy violations, or fraudulent activity, with reasonable notice where practical.
  • After your conference/journal's license expires, its data (submissions, reviews, decisions, and related records) remains available and accessible to you for 6 months, so you can retrieve or export anything you need. After that 6-month period, Technology Fist may archive or remove the data at its discretion - this does not affect papers already registered with a DOI, which remain permanently resolvable regardless of your license status, consistent with standard scholarly publishing practice.
  • This Agreement does not transfer ownership of your conference/journal's name, brand, or content to Technology Fist - you retain full ownership and editorial control, subject to the platform's technical terms of use.

By checking the box at registration, you confirm you have read, understood, and agree to this License Agreement.