In 2016, ECS launched
Free the Science, a bold, business-model changing initiative to make the society’s research freely available to all readers, while remaining free for authors to publish. Because of this initiative, ECS is uniquely positioned to handle open access regardless of changes in funder requirements and other disruptions to the publishing industry. This session will explore the tactics taken since the launch of
Free the Science, including ECS’s read-and-publish model, ECS Plus, and provide insight to how society publishers can take advantage of multiple tactics to progress their open access publishing.
