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What‽ I've published around 5 articles, and I've never paid anything. Is this something new?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_processing_charge?wprov=sfla1
https://beta.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/pricing?trial=true
Also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing?wprov=sfla1
This system looks like it has such a great opportunity to be overtaken by free journals. Universities are in a great position to make this happen if they can weed out their political corruption through a system of rules and transparency. However, having worked in academia, I can see how this would be really hard to pull off. All of those egos competing to be the top ego and cliques can catastrophically toxify a project without resolve.
Varies from field to field. But many journals that ask for money from authors without providing open access are scams.
Yea they do seem like predatory/scammy.