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, and decisions. 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.
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 publication fee — a publishing-service fee — 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. Three plans. Sized to your venue.
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 tracking & receipts, or publishing.
- Up to 200 submissions · unlimited reviewers
- Full peer-review workflow, revisions & decisions
- Blind review & conflict-of-interest declarations
- IEEE eCopyright (eCF) integration
- ORCID sign-in for authors & reviewers
- Camera-ready file collection
- Email notifications at every step
AMS Core Plus
Everything in Core, plus the program builder, a hosted public website, payment tracking & receipts, and iThenticate/Turnitin similarity checks. No publishing.
- Up to 200 submissions included
- Everything in Core: peer review, revisions & decisions
- Program builder, schedule & speakers pages
- Hosted venue website & CFP pages, custom theme
- Clean venue URLs
- Payment tracking & receipts (venue fee management)
- Similarity checks — iThenticate/Turnitin (your venue's account)
- Optional modules on request — see below
AMS Core Plus & Publishing
Everything in Core Plus, plus the Publishing Module: DOI-ready publication, a permanent page in the Technology Fist Digital Library, citations, and metadata exports.
- Up to 200 submissions included
- DOI reservation & registration pipeline
- Author proofing workflow
- Issue / proceedings volumes
- Permanent digital-library page
- Every article as full-text HTML, PDF and JATS XML
- Supplementary files — datasets, appendices, code
- Citation styles, BibTeX/RIS, OAI-PMH
| Compare plans | AMS Core | AMS Core Plus | AMS Core Plus & Publishing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submissions included (band selected above) | Up to 200 | Up to 200 | Up to 200 |
| Submissions, peer review & decisions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Camera-ready handling & email notifications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| IEEE eCopyright (eCF) integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ORCID sign-in for authors & reviewers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Program builder & schedule | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosted venue website, CFP pages, custom theme & clean URLs | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payment tracking & receipts (venue fee management) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Similarity checks - iThenticate/Turnitin (venue's own account) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optional modules (switched on per venue on request) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publishing: DOIs, author proofing, volumes & digital library | — | — | ✓ |
| Articles as full-text HTML, PDF & JATS XML; supplementary files | — | — | ✓ |
| 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) are available on AMS Core Plus and AMS Core Plus & Publishing, 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. Journal renewals are priced by the plan being renewed, and a journal can switch between AMS Core and AMS Core Plus at renewal for the new period. 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
- You run submissions, peer review, and decisions end to end, under your own editorial control.
- TF produces the published 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. Posting is free on every collection: no subscription, no posting fee.
The same infrastructure that carries a published journal article:
- Moderator screening for scope, completeness and integrity
- DOI-ready, resolving permanently once registered
- 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
Preprint posting is currently free on all Technology Fist collections; where a collection sets a posting fee, 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 and in every case within 24 hours. Bank-transfer orders are provisioned once we confirm the transfer.
The full submission-to-publication cycle for your venue, hosted by us, with support by email throughout the term.
For authors: the author fee
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 this fee covers
Your payment is confirmed automatically and processing starts straight away - you get a receipt, your paper moves into production, and you can follow every step on your paper page. Publication itself follows the venue's editorial workflow - your approval of the proof and the editor's publication step.
- 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 fee before you submit.
- Charged only after editorial acceptance, securely inside AMS.
- This fee never buys acceptance — decisions happen in peer review.
Questions about licensing or the umbrella model?
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