| About Author Choice Open Access Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Article Credits ECS Plus Subscriber ECS Members Institutional Members Focus Issue Papers Open Access and Copyright Frequently Asked Questions Additional Resources About Author Choice Open AccessThe research published in ECS journals is of huge importance to the future of our planet: developments in sustainable clean energy, clean water, food safety, and medical care are just a few of the areas where research published in our journals is helping to accelerate development. We believe that if this research were openly available to anyone who wished to read it, anywhere in the world, it would contribute to faster problem-solving and technology development, accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, encourage innovation, enrich education, and even stimulate the economy. This is where ECS Author Choice Open Access comes in. Open access means that an article is freely available online to anyone who wishes to see it, so the reader neither has to pay for it directly, nor belong to an institution that subscribes to the journal in which it appears. Authors who wish to make their published article open access will need to either pay an article processing charge or use an article credit in place of payment. Both of our peer-reviewed journals (the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology) offer Author Choice Open Access. Enabling open access to scientific research is imperative to ECS in our mission to disseminate the best research in our technical fields as widely as possible. Help further our mission by publishing your next ECS article as Author Choice Open Access. Find out more about our open access initiative and what you can do to help ECS Free the Science. Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Article CreditsECS’s standard open access article processing charge is USD $1,000 per accepted article. Alternatively, an article credit may be used in place of payment. To help more authors publish their work open access, ECS offers a robust article credit program that provides a wide variety of article credit options. ECS Plus SubscribersECS Plus is a subscription to the entire ECS Digital Library, PLUS unlimited article credits for affiliated authors. Researchers from over 1,000 institutions qualify! Check if your institution subscribes. ECS MembersAs part of ECS’s membership package, members and student members receive a 75% discount off our already low APC (reducing the charge to only $250). Institutional MembersAuthors affiliated with an ECS institutional member organization may receive a limited number of article credits as part of their membership package (sent as coupon codes to that institution’s lead member representative). To determine if your institution participates, please contact Anna Olsen. Focus Issue PapersFocus Issues have proven to contain some of the most read and highly cited ECS content. In order to promote maximum dissemination of this important research, at the beginning of 2017 ECS made the decision to convert all future focus issues to OA-only. Papers submitted and accepted for publication in an ECS focus issue are published as open access at no cost to authors. A full list of focus issues now accepting submissions can be found here. Open Access and CopyrightIn place of a copyright transfer, authors who wish to make their articles open access are asked to sign an exclusive Open Access Publishing Agreement with ECS. Copyright will remain with the author(s), and the author will need to select a Creative Commons usage license to attach to the work, which will define how the article may be used by the general public. ECS offers authors a choice of two Creative Commons licenses, CC BY or CC BY–NC–ND. Some advocates of open access believe that CC BY, as the most liberal of the licenses, is the most appropriate license under which to publish open access content. However, authors may wish to choose the CC BY-NC-ND license instead, which is similar to a traditional copyright arrangement. This license limits use to noncommercial purposes (—NC), and restricts others from creating derivative works (–ND). More information about the licenses can be found on the Creative Commons website. If you need more help selecting a license, please get in touch with us at OA@electrochem.org. Once an article is published, the author’s choice of a Creative Commons license will be clearly marked at the abstract level, in the full-text article, and will be embedded in the metadata. Copyright law does still apply to protect the work. Any breaches of a CC license would normally be seen as copyright infringements. If the authors choose a CC BY-NC-ND license, ECS’s Open Access Publishing Agreement asks that ECS be granted rights that they have always had in the traditional publishing model: others may not use the work for commercial purposes without getting permission from ECS, but the author grants ECS the exclusive right to use the work for commercial purposes and to sublicense it to others. Frequently Asked Questions
Additional ResourcesAbout Creative Commons Licenses If you have any questions about this or any of the other information on this page, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at: OA@electrochem.org. |
