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About Open Access
The 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
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Article processing charges 2025 (APCs)
ECS standard 2025 open access processing charges (APC)
Journa
of The Electrochemical Society
(JES)
$1,948 USD
ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
(JSS)
$1,948 USD
ECS Advances*
$1,504 USD
ECS Sensors Plus*
$1,504 USD
*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.
Article processing charges 2026 (APCs)
ECS standard 2026 open access processing charges (APC)
Journal of The Electrochemical Society
(JES)
$2,050 USD
ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
(JSS)
$2,050 USD
ECS Advances*
$2,050 USD
ECS Sensors Plus*
$2,050 USD
*APC charges will be waived 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.
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ECS Plus subscribers
ECS 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 Agreements
As 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 members
As 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).
Open access and copyright
In 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.
Journa
of The Electrochemical Society
(JES)
CC BY or CC BY–NC–ND
ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
(JSS)
CC BY or CC BY–NC–ND
ECS Advances
CC BY
ECS Sensors Plus
CC BY
More information about the licenses is on the
Creative Commons website
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-Johna Leddy, ECS President (2017-2018)
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