From: Karen Ornstein <Karen.Ornstein@electrochem.org>

Date: Friday, June 29, 2012

**Please note this is a FOLLOW-UP TO AN INDIVIDUAL E-MAIL ANNOUNCEMENT ISSUED on 6/14/12: If you are an ECS subscriber and did not receive that announcement, please contact karen.ornstein@electrochem.org **

ECS and HighWire are finalizing steps to make the ECS transition to the HighWire platform, scheduled for mid-July 2012, as seamless as possible to ensure that subscribers will continue to experience uninterrupted service and access to ECS content.

WHAT SUBSCRIBERS NEED TO KNOW to access the new ECS Digital Library platform and related content: The domain name for the ECS Digital Library (ECS DL; ecsdl.org) will not change, although the internal URL structure will. A full map of redirects from the old URLs to the new will be in place so subscribers following an existing link from a bookmark or from within library technology layers (including Web scale discovery and link resolvers) should still land at the appropriate article. Non-article c! ! ontent will also be redirected, as will ECS journal-specific URLs. ECS and HighWire are also working with library technology vendors so that they can propagate new linking details to their library clients over a period of time, slowly relieving the need for redirections of URLs. This approach is designed to make the transition easy-to-manage for libraries—changes need to be made, but not concurrent with the go-live date. In addition, the new site will indicate the new linking syntax to be used by those libraries that choose to configure their own knowledge-bases, or for inclusion in OPACs. At the same time as the transition, three new ECS journals

(http://www.electrochem.org/new_journals/) will be added to the ECS DL, and new and easy-to-navigate landing pages will be created for all ECS DL content.

What SUBS! ! CRIBERS NEED TO DO to access the new ECS Digital Library platform and related content: ECS will automatically set up subscriber accounts and IPs on the HighWire platform. When this transition goes “live,” on or about July 17, 2012, subscribers will receive an e-mail directly from ECS that will provide a link to their new account, and instructions as to activate it. This will help ensure that subscribers have continued access to their account and can manage it effectively.

Online access to the ECS Digital Library will continue uninterrupted; and although there is no need to act immediately to activate

account(s) on the new platform, the sooner this is done, the better.

ECS will provide contact support information.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns, or if! ! you are a subscriber and did not receive an individual e-mail about this directly. If you are not a subscriber and would like to subscribe for the 2013 subscription year, please also contact me.

Also, if you are attending the upcoming Special Library Association meeting and exhibit, ECS will have a booth at SLA and will be available to meet with you and answer any questions.

Thank you, Karen Baliff Ornstein

karen.ornstein@electrochem.org

About The ECS Digital Library: This searchable online compendium of the entire scope of ECS technical research and content and includes more than 80 years of legacy content and up-to-the-minute research in one robust and intuitive interface. By the end of this year, the EC! ! S DL is on target to include 100,000 entries. The Society's peer-reviewed journals have consistently ranked among the top international publications in their field (based on ISI Science Citation Index criteria) and its proceedings and extended meeting abstracts provide scientists with a first look into the current research.

About ECS:  Founded in 1902 as an international nonprofit, educational organization concerned with a broad range of phenomena relating to electrochemical and solid-state science and technology, The Electrochemical Society is celebrating 110 years of service to the scientific community. Today ECS has more than 9,000 scientists and engineers holding individual memberships in over 75 countries worldwide, as well as close to 100 corporations and laboratories holding corporate memberships. www.electrochem.org

Karen Baliff Ornstein

Associate Director of Sales and Marketing ECS—The Electrochemical Society karen.ornstein@electrochem.org

www.electrochem.org

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