Scholarly publishing infrastructure plays a crucial role as a record of scholarship and a building block in the production and dissemination of knowledge [1]. India holds the 4th rank globally [2] as a research hub (most articles published) and the 9th rank in the Springer Nature Index [3]. In the Indian context, the infrastructure has undergone rapid and uneven transformation from digitalization to the global commercial Open Access (OA) movement. Country research output expanded rapidly, but at the same speed, did the publishing infrastructure also develop? The study examines the contemporary journal infrastructure in India and understands the journals' Article Processing Charges (APCs)[4] and publishing platform, OJS (Open Journal System)