Once upon a time, the ECS journals followed a very traditional path. BOE (Before the Online Era), the Journal of The Electrochemical Society was published in paper, one issue at a time, and carried by truck, boat, or plane to its final destination. Although the content of the Journal was of the highest quality, the timeliness of the receipt of that content was not its equal. The beginning of the new era came about for ECS with the launch of Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters in 1998. It was planned, and debuted, as the first rapid-publication peer-reviewed journal in electrochemical and solid-state science and technology, with new articles published almost daily. All this was accomplished in-house with a minimum of resources and with essential, but limited, functionality. The Journal soon joined Letters with an online edition of its own, but with papers published only one issue at a time and the paper edition being published first. Change could have continued along a slow and steady path, but dynamic online features beckoned, and the ECS journals took a "quantum leap."
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