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ECS (The Electrochemical Society) is celebrating Open Access Week this year by making all of its content—over 120,000 articles—in the ECS Digital Library (http://ecsdl.org) freely accessible from October 19 through 25, 2015.

 

The research ECS publishes directly addresses the sustainability of the planet: clean energy, renewables, energy storage, and clean water are just a few of the subjects covered by ECS’s journals.

 

We want to take the opportunity of Open Access Week to show the world our vision: all of our content freely available to anyone who wants to read it.

 

ECS believes that open access—especially in electrochemistry and solid state sciences—is an important goal for scientific and technological development and, quite simply, creating a better world. Ensuring that everyone working on these issues—wherever they are in the world, and for whomever they work—has access to the latest research is in our best interests as a nonprofit professional society supporting researchers everywhere, and in the best interests of all the sciences.

 

Subjects covered by these journals include:

-- energy storage and conversion, from small-scale to large scale: batteries, fuel cells, biofuels, supercapacitors, grid-scaling;

-- environmental remediation of materials used in research;

-- corrosion of infrastructures;

-- clean water and sanitation;

-- the growth of nanotechnology;

-- processes to develop safer and more effective drugs;

-- improving and developing new medical devices; and

-- sensors for environmental cleanup, emissions monitoring, detection of illegal and dangerous materials, home and workplace safety, and medical diagnosis and care.

 

The ECS Digital Library is home to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, the flagship journal of ECS, published continuously since 1902, and to the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, ECS Electrochemistry Letters, ECS Solid State Letters, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, ECS Transactions, ECS Meeting Abstracts, and Interface.

 

ECS has not yet reached a place where it can sustainably make all of its publications open access, but it is our goal and we want to celebrate our vision of the future during Open Access Week.

 

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Mary E. Yess

Deputy Executive Director/Chief Content Officer & Publisher

ECS

tel: +1 609 737 1902

@ECSorg