Hi Reddit! This is Dr. Gerald Frankel, professor of materials science engineering at The Ohio State University and technical editor of the corrosion section of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. I’m joined by Roque Calvo, executive director of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). We’re here today to talk about electrochemistry, open access, and our Free the Science initiative!
A bit more about us:
Dr. Gerald Frankel: I’m the DNV Chair, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the Fontana Corrosion Center at the Ohio State University. I am an alumnus of Brown and MIT and am former chair of ECS’s corrosion division. My research interests are in the degradation of materials, including passivation and localized corrosion of metals and alloys, atmospheric corrosion, corrosion inhibition, and protective coatings. In 2012 I was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, and one of my specialties is the degradation of nuclear waste forms and containers. I am the director of a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center in this area.
Roque Calvo: I have been with ECS for 35 years and serve as its executive director and CEO. I have seen immense changes in the world of scientific societies over the years, from huge growth in international membership and meetings to significant changes in the world of scholarly publishing. I’m excited to talk about our vision for Free the Science.
The Electrochemical Society (ECS): ECS is a non-profit science society that has been publishing continuously since 1902. We are an international membership organization and have over 8,000 members worldwide, in more than 80 countries. Our mission is to disseminate and advance the sciences we represent through meetings and publications, and we believe the best way to do that is through complete open access—allowing authors to publish for free and removing any paywalls for readers. We are currently publishing 2 peer reviewed journals (Journal of The Electrochemical Society and ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology) that are hybrid OA, but we hope to accomplish complete open access in the near future through our Free the Sciencehttp://ift.tt/2ejSYpf initiative!
The Electrochemical Society has embarked on an initiative to Free the Science over the next several years because our sciences are so key to the future sustainability of our planet. We share knowledge in energy creation and storage, clean water, communications, infrastructure, food and personal safety, and medical detection and devices. We believe that complete open access would encourage more collaboration and precipitate more rapid progress in our world. We do not want to do what other publishers have done, however, which is to offer open access by charging high APCs or spinning off new journals. We want money to stay with scientists in their labs and not go toward publishing and that is why ECS proposes to remove ALL barriers through Free the Science:
-We converted both of our journals to hybrid open access with a low, highly subsidized APC (which we hope to remove entirely in the future – 2024 is our goal) -We offered a pilot program (2014-2015) that offered unlimited FREE OA publishing to any authors from subscribing institutions (and we still offer a variety of waivers) -Our subscription prices have been frozen for the past 3 years, and we hope to keep them that way -We remain committed to our highly respected peer review system
This year, in honor of Open Access Week (October 24-30), we’re taking down the paywall for readers of our Digital Libraryhttp://www.ecsdl.org to show the world what total open access looks like.
We hope that anyone who wants to know more about Free the Science, open access, or even electrochemistry will ask questions here. And, we also hope you’ll visit our library during the week of October 24 to check out our vision of the future (and maybe to download some free papers)!
We'll be back at 1 pm EST (10 am PST, 6 pm UTC) to answer your questions. We look forward to chatting with you all.
Find out more about Free the Science and ECS.
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