Free the Science: We Choose to Go to the Moon - ECS

"When the Board approved the Free the Science initiative in 2013, we created an ideal to tackle the new paradigm of open science in scholarly communications and that has driven innovation to incredible new levels at ECS. As a nonprofit publisher, we have seen a rise in article submissions and dissemination through structural changes to the journals and to the role of our editorial board and divisions. We introduced a series of new publication opportunities including focus issues, perspective articles, and critical review articles in the journals. In the coming months, ECS will launch ECSarXiv, an open science preprint server, to provide a new venue for content to be shared and cited in our technical fields. And most importantly, through the Free the Science initiative we have created many open access opportunities for authors, which have led to the open accessibility of 36% of our journal articles in the four years since we began."