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othing epitomizes the theme of “Sharing Solutionsˮ as does open access and open science. Since 2013, when ECS’s first foray into openness began, these programs have gained considerable momentum. The most significant step was the establishment of a partnership with the Center for Open Science. In 2016, ECS began working on a number of projects with COS. The first was the decision by ECS to become a signatory to the TOP Guidelines, a set of recommendations for researchers and publishers to establish sound practices for transparency, open sharing, and reproducibility. A next step was partnering with COS to build a new ECS Digital Library to support and embrace the Society’s ultimate goal of completely opening all the content it publishes, with no fees to authors and no charges to individuals or libraries for subscriptions. ECS also began the planning (with COS) of a preprint server, as a solution for researchers to freely share outputs of their research—data sets, presentation slides, draft abstracts and manuscripts—with many benefits. Once committed to open access, the Society decided to do so with its high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, and to not create new ones simply for the sake of publishing open access. In 2016, the journals offered even more of their best-quality content by publishing all ECS focus issues open access. Data science is an exciting area in many disciplines, and ECS has created a Data Science Initiative, including plans for a workshop, an OpenCon event, and publishing the outputs of this research. Data science is an excellent way for ECS to segue from open access into the exciting opportunities of open science.
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The Electrochemical Society Interface • Summer 2017 • www.electrochem.org