In celebration of International Open Access Week 2025 (October 20–26), The Electrochemical Society (ECS) is proud to reaffirm our longstanding commitment to open science and equitable access to knowledge. This year’s theme, “Who Owns Knowledge?”, invites the global research community to reflect on how scholarly information is shared, who can access it, and how collective progress depends on removing barriers to discovery.
In honor of Open Access Week, ECS will remove the paywall for all ECS subscription-based content across our journal portfolio for the open access week period. From October 20 through October 26, every reader, regardless of institutional affiliation or funding, will have free access to our full library of peer-reviewed research.
This initiative underscores our commitment to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, the mission that has guided ECS since 1902. Open science accelerates innovation, promotes collaboration across borders and disciplines, and ensures that every researcher, educator, and student can contribute to solving the world’s most pressing challenges from sustainable energy to clean water and beyond.
Advancing Equity Through Access
The 2025 Open Access Week theme, “Who Owns Knowledge?”, asks us to reexamine traditional models of publishing and challenge inequities in the scholarly ecosystem.
Through our ECS Open Access program, ECS Plus institutional subscriptions, and ECS’s participation in transformative agreements with our partner IOP Publishing (IOPP), we continue to expand opportunities for authors to publish open access while keeping costs low and predictable. Our ongoing initiatives are designed to ensure that authors and readers alike benefit from the openness, transparency, and integrity that define scientific excellence.
Join Us in Celebrating Open Science
We invite you to explore the wealth of knowledge within ECS’s journals during this special week. Whether you’re reading a breakthrough study in The Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) or discovering new materials research in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (JSS), we hope these resources inspire collaboration and innovation in your own work.
By removing the paywall, ECS celebrates not just open access but also the open exchange of ideas, the cornerstone of scientific progress.
Visit openaccessweek.org to learn more about this year’s theme.
Access ECS’s open content and experience the power of shared knowledge firsthand.