ECS Launches Author Choice Open Access

The ECS leadership in May 2013 approved the Society's Open Access (OA) goals, which are to institute 'hybrid' OA for the ECS journals as soon as possible. This allows authors to choose between making their articles OA (pay an Article Processing Charge or 'APC' or use an article credit) or having their articles remain behind the paywall. To keep developing an OA plan to make the journals free and open to all authors, readers, and libraries. Open Access means that an article is freely available online to anyone who wishes to see it, so the reader doesn't have to pay for it, nor does the reader have to belong to an institution that subscribes to the journal in which the article appears. Authors who choose to make their article Open Access will either be levied an Article Processing Charge (APC) on acceptance, or they may use an article credit in place of the charge. Authors belonging to an institution that subscribes to ECS journals are entitled to unlimited article credits.