For well over 30 years, ANS leadership has sparred with members of the academic community about the issue of page charges for ANS's publications. Page charges have been in place all this time as a way to cover the cost of publication for those journals, as well as to support other beneficial activities of the Society. However, especially in recent years, attitudes among academic publishers have shifted, and page charges for technical journal publications are essentially extinct. ANS's three technical journals-Nuclear Science and Engineering, Nuclear Technology, and Fusion Science and Technology-have held on to the page charge revenue stream despite vocal criticism from the community. Until now. At the 2021 ANS Winter Meeting held in early December, the ANS Board of Directors voted to approve a 2022 budget proposal that includes the elimination of page charges from the three technical journals. The Publications Steering Committee (PSC), with support from the Technical Journals Committee (TJC) and ANS staff, worked in 2021 to develop a case for the change and brought the proposal to the board prior to the Winter Meeting.
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