The article charges and licensing agreements on this page are relevant to articles accepted before October 11, 2021.
The terms of publication, specifically, the licensing agreement between the author and the AAS Journals, changed on October 11, 2011. The most updated version of our article charges and agreements can be found on the main APC page.
Publication fees are required for publication in the refereed journals of the American Astronomical Society (the Astronomical Journal, the Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters, the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, and the Planetary Science Journal). Please be aware that the journals do not receive direct funding from any external agencies.
Research Notes of the AAS and the Bulletin of the AAS are fully open access (OA) publications and have no article publication charges.
Note that, effective 1 January 2022, all AAS journals will be fully open access.
For information about article publication charges and licensing agreements after 1 January 2022, please see our open access FAQ. Article publication charges and licensing agreement information for the remainder of 2021 are given below. Authors continue to have the option to publish gold open access in any journal in the AAS portfolio.