STEME publishes all its articles in full open access format. The scientific community and the general public have, for free, unlimited and immediate access to all content published inSTEME as soon as it is published on the Internet. This means that STEME does not receive any income from selling subscriptions to print or view online versions of its journals or from charging "pay-per-view" fees. Therefore, STEME needs to defray its editorial and production costs by collecting article processing charges (APCs) from authors' institutes or research funding bodies.

The value of STEME article processing charges (APCs) is USD 150.00 or equivalent to IDR 2,000,000.00. The APCs covers editorial services and production of an article. Submission to STEME is free of charge. APCs are paid when the editor states that the articles are accepted for processing to the next process.

Discount 50% of APCs (Article Processing Charges) for IGI-Banten member who submitted manuscript and accepted status in 2018. This offer is valid only for active IGI-Banten members, please write down the ID number in comments for editor when submitting manuscript.