Free the Science

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-29

Summary:

"Free the Science is a business-model changing initiative that will make our research freely available to all readers, while remaining free for authors to publish.  It is a new publishing standard for ECS, one of the last independent, nonprofit scientific society publishers. We already give authors the choice to publish their work as open access and plan to open access to the entire ECS Digital Library....

ECS believes that by opening, and democratizing research, we can more rapidly advance our important sciences and society at large, while directly fulfilling our mission. The key to scientific advancement has always been the open exchange of information. Yet even in today’s digital environment, many scientists around the world struggle to access quality, reliable research. The bottom line is discoveries need discoverability and that is only guaranteed through full open access....

In March 2014, an ECS ad hoc Committee on the Free Dissemination of Research evaluated the evolving publishing landscape and the viability of transitioning to an open access publications model. They determined that in addition to maintaining our high standards of peer review, ECS should pursue complete open access and keep our publications relevant and sustainable.

 

In May 2015, the ECS Board of Directors approved launching the Free the Science campaign to help fund the transition to complete open access....

ECS is committed to not double dipping, and our motives for moving toward OA have nothing to do with creating new revenue.

Ultimately, our plan is to move away from the traditional subscriptions model altogether. However, we are not yet in a position to do so.

In 2014 and 2015, ECS piloted a model where authors affiliated with subscribing institutions were offered unlimited article credits. This was very popular with authors, and the number of authors that took us up on that offer was significant. During that time more than 99% of the open access papers that we published were published using article credits (in other words, the authors did not pay)....

Link:

https://www.electrochem.org/free-the-science

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.societies oa.ecs oa.video oa.business_models oa.hybrid oa.double_dipping oa.conversions oa.no-fee

Date tagged:

10/29/2018, 12:48

Date published:

10/29/2018, 08:48