APC Management

Take control of APCs with smart automation

Author processing charges. Just the name makes you feel tired. So many forms and emails and reopening your budget spreadsheets.

With ChronosHub, you save yourself and your authors tons of manual work. Through an automated process, invoices get scanned, ingested, structured, and checked for funding eligibility. And you get one dashboard to manage them all.

Cut typing time for everyone

Authors get a simple widget to submit funding requests. Your team gets fewer emails to answer.

Stop irrelevant requests coming through

ChronosHub acts as a doorman: double checking details and verifying the details of a request before it gets to you. All automatically and tailored to your criteria

Manage budgets more effectively

With all your requests and charges clearly laid out, you can see how much youre spending in a simple way and in real-time. You can even outsource all your APC payments to ChronosHub.

Speed up and verify submissions with AI

An embeddable widget for APC requests

Authors can submit APC funding requests in under three minutes using a configurable widget. You can embed it on whatever page makes most sense for you. The form provides instant feedback on eligibility, reducing unnecessary submissions and saving time for everyone.  

You can tailor the fields and questions to your policies. This way, authors get a clear idea of their eligibility with different journals from the very beginning. It can also alert them if there’s already an agreement in place which makes funding unnecessary.  

Approvals that skip your inbox

ChronosHub automates eligibility checks and APC approval workflows across all publishers from a single dashboard. Once an article is published, metadata is enriched automatically from online sources.  

You and your authors stay informed with automated email notifications whenever a new step in the process has been completed. And of course, you get a complete audit trail too.

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Robust reporting and payment

Benefit from extensive reporting tools, export options, and data reuse capabilities. Whether tracking trends or preparing audits, you can always find the data in ChronosHub.  

When it comes to paying charges to publishers on your behalf, there’s an option for that too. Simply assign the right deposit account to each payment directly on your dashboard.

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Journal Guide is so good for our researchers navigating our read & publish agreements to see where they don’t need to pay APCs.

Louise Zambianchi
Acting Head of Open Research and Open Access Manager at Lancaster University

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