About Open AccessThe research published in ECS journals is of huge importance to the future of our planet. Developments in sustainable clean energy and water, food safety, and medical care are just a few of the areas where research published in our journals is helping to accelerate solutions. We believe that if this research were openly available to anyone, anywhere in the world, who wished to read it, 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 Open Access comes in. Open access means that an article is freely available online to anyone who wishes to see it. The reader neither pays for it directly nor belongs to an institution that subscribes to the journal in which it appears. Enabling open access to scientific research is imperative to ECS’s 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 2025 (APCs)ECS standard 2025 open access processing charges (APC)
*APC charges will be waived for 2024, and through September 30, 2025, for these new gold open-access journals. The APC applied to an article is determined based on the year of publication, not the date of submission, revision, or acceptance. To understand potential costs, authors are encouraged to consult the APC schedule for the applicable year. Article processing charges 2026 (APCs)ECS standard 2026 open access processing charges (APC)
*APC charges will be waived for 2025, and through September 30, 2026, for these new gold open-access journals. The APC applied to an article is determined based on the year of publication, not the date of submission, revision, or acceptance. To understand potential costs, authors are encouraged to consult the APC schedule for the applicable year. ECS Plus subscribersECS Plus is a subscription to the entire ECS Digital Library, PLUS unlimited article credits for affiliated authors to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. To take advantage of an article credit, submitting/corresponding author must be from an ECS Plus-affiliated institutions and select ECS Plus at the time of manuscript submission. Researchers from over 1,000 institutions qualify! Check if your institution subscribes. Download and share the Publish Open Access with ECS Plus guide. If your institution would like to learn more about adding ECS Plus to their subscription package, contact customerservices@ioppublishing.org. Transformative Agreements and Institutional Open Access AgreementsAs a publishing partner of the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), ECS content is included in several Transformative and/or Institutional Open Access Agreements around the globe. Agreements of this nature are put in place between colleges, universities, funders, consortia, and other organizations to support authors by eliminating the cost of article publication charges (APCs) for open access publishing. These agreements often enable authors to read and or publish on an open access basis at no direct cost to the author. To learn if your institution is covered under a Transformative and/or Institutional Open Access Agreement—or how to submit your content under such an agreement—please visit the IOPP Transformative Agreement home page for the most up-to-date details and search tools. ECS membersAs part of ECS’s membership package, members and student members in good standing receive a 75 percent discount on article processing charges (APC) when publishing as the submitting/corresponding author in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) and the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (JSS) and a 15 percent discount on ECS Advances (ECSA) and ECS Sensors Plus (ECSSP). Institutional membersSubmitting/corresponding authors affiliated with an ECS institutional member organization may receive a limited number of article credits as part of their membership package. Open access and copyrightIn place of a copyright transfer, authors who wish to make their articles open access are asked to sign a non-exclusive Open Access Publishing Agreement with ECS. Copyright remains with the author(s). Authors must select a Creative Commons usage license to attach to the work. This defines how the general public may use the article. ECS offers authors CC BY or CC BY–NC–ND Creative Commons licenses.
More information about the licenses is on the Creative Commons website. |
