> -- This is not accurate. Elsevier journals also charge huge amount of fees (around or over $1000 depends on the journals) from academics for submitting and/or

> -- This is not accurate. Elsevier journals also charge huge amount of fees (around or over $1000 depends on the journals) from academics for submitting and/or publishing their manuscripts. This is not an accurate description. Non-open journals journals have started to offer the option that you can pay that, maybe $1000 (varies a lot), publication fee if you want the journal to publish your article as open access. But this is optional.