> So I'll personally still submit to journals without page charges and upload pre-prints on arxiv. All the major journals in astronomy/astrophysics (ApJ, ApJ L

> So I'll personally still submit to journals without page charges and upload pre-prints on arxiv. All the major journals in astronomy/astrophysics (ApJ, ApJ Letters, A&A, PASP, etc.) require article processing charges. The only major journal that doesn't require publication charges is MNRAS [1], but even they have started charging £50 for each additional page if the total number of pages is more than 20. Of course, article processing charges are ridiculous in the 21st century especially when the journals directly receive TeX sources from the authors. Other physics journals have also started doing this, e.g., The Physical Review Letters, which the is the "premier" journal from the American Physical Society now requires a $815 fee for a 4-5 page paper [2]. The trend is extremely alarming since it is highly biased in favor of researchers in large universities in rich countries, who are the only people who would be able to pay such ludicrous publication charges. Several scientific societies in the US and around the world have upped their "diversity" activism and have jumped on to the woke bandwagon. Yet, no one seems to talk about blatantly exclusionary issues such as this. And it's not even remotely difficult to run a high-quality open-access journal without any publication charges -- SciPost [3] and Discrete Analysis [4] are excellent examples. [1]: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/General_Instructions#1.3%20Charges https://academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/General_Instructions#1.... [2]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/authors#pubcharges https://journals.aps.org/prl/authors#pubcharges [3]: https://scipost.org/ https://scipost.org/ [4]: https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/ https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/