Ring the changes: ChemElectroChem is fully embracing the Open Science movement as it is now the first Chemistry Europe journal to make the transition from a hybrid to fully open access journal. It remains a key electrochemistry publication for the entire community. Read this years Editorial to find out more! At ChemElectroChem we ring the changes as we ring in the New Year! As you have hopefully heard, we are now a fully open access journal (see the Editorial that was published in our October issue)! From January 1st, 2023, all of our content is being published under a Creative Commons license. This means that our authors now retain copyright of their work and the new articles can be accessed immediately and freely, without a paywall. As we strive for Open Science, we are really happy to take this step, and now all new content will have the benefits associated with open access, such as greater visibility, increased downloads, higher citation rates and, most importantly, being more readily available to researchers around the globe to build upon those studies and advance the literature and scientific knowledge even further. As ChemElectroChem is no longer a subscription journal, all accepted articles are now subject to an article publication charge (APC), unless a waiver is applied. Compared to our previous open access option, our APC has decreased and is currently 2500 USD/2100 EUR/1900 GBP. Many funding bodies and research councils mandate open access publishing, and we ensure that we are fully compliant with these directives and try to make the process as seamless as possible. To this end and to ensure the straightforward coverage of APCs, Wiley has signed a large number of transformative agreements and offer a number of Wiley Open Access Accounts. For more information about APC coverage and open access options, please check the Wiley Author Services website and we encourage you to speak to you librarian for the most up-to-date information for your specific insititution. David received his B.S. degree in Materials Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He also obtained his Master's degree in Polymers and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the UPC, focusing on electroactive conducting polymers. He then carried out a post-doctoral research for two years at CEA-Grenoble (France) within the Nanowires for Energy Storage (NEST) project. Subsequently, he was recruited as a project manager at CEA in several research lines related to energy storage applications (supercapacitors and batteries). During that period, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt for Experienced Researchers fellowship at the University of Göttingen (Germany) in the field of ALD-based catalysts for hydrogen production. He obtained his French Habilitation from the University Grenoble Alpes (France) in 2019. His areas of expertise are a great fit for ChemElectroChem and we are pleased to have him on the team! At ChemElectroChem, we are passionate about our Special Collections and aim to bring together the electrochemistry-related fields with a series of celebratory collections, topical collections, and other themed collections dedicated to conferences or certain communities. In terms of our celebratory collections, we are honored to be working with two of our Early Career Advisory Board Members, Dr. Michelle Browne and Dr. Encarnación Torralba-Peñalver, on the Early Career Women in Electrochemistry collection, focusing on the work of talented women in electrochemistry, especially those still early in their career and already making a great impression within the field. The first manuscripts are online with more to come. In addition, if you would like to feature in this important collection, please do let us know and we would be very happy to send your contribution for external peer review! We were also very pleased to work with Robert Dryfe and Talia Jane Stockmann on the Hubert Girault Festchrift to celebrate Hubert turning 65 in February 2022, as well as with Carlo Santoro, Matteo Grattieri, Sofia Babanova, and Scott Calabrese Barton to create the Plamen Atanassov Festschrift to celebrate Plamen turning 60 in November 2022 (Figure 1). Both collections are already online, but new content is still being added (especially for Plamen's Festschrift), so please do check back regularly for more dedicated contributions. Another important celebration in 2022 was that of our Editorial Advisroy Board members who concluded their terms at the end of 2021. We invited our retiring Editorial Advisory Board Members to submit an article in recognition of the collaboration. And we are pleased to showcase those in our Past Board Members collection. Plamen Atanassov (left) and Hubert Girault (right) celebrated milestone birthdays in 2022. To showcase some of the most recent electrochemical research being performed in Italy and within international collaborations, Danilo Dini, Leonardo Mattiello, and Maria Assunta Navarra joined us as Guest Editors in collaboration with the latest annual meeting of the Electrochemical Division of the Italian Chemical Society, which took place in Orvieto on September 11–15, 2022, to put together the 2022 version of the Giornate dell'Elettrochimica Italiana (Italy) collection. We also joined forces with Ignasi Sirés, Manuel A. Rodrigo, Maria Gomez Mingot, and Edward P. L. Roberts to create a Special Collection for the Spain-France: Current Trends in Electrochemistry Workshop, which took place in Paris and brought together a group of electrochemists trained in Spain and France. Another Special Collection that is close to completion is that highlighting recent work by Latin American electrochemists in our Latin American Electrochemistry collection, Guest Edited by Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle, Nella Vargas-Barbosa, Benjamín Scharifker, and Ana-Sofía Varela. To round out our Special Collections of 2022, we have recently concluded a timely Special Collection on Electrochemical Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, Guest Edited by Mike Rose, Pallavi Singh, and Ruud Kortlever (Figure 2). Selected covers associated with recent Special Collections at ChemElectroChem. Along with some of our sister journals, we are also pleased to see the implementation of “Data Reporting Checklists” in our submission process. The research community has been growing steadily and, with it, so have the number of scientific discoveries and their subsequent publications. Although access to those publications has become easier, it is difficult to identify studies relevant to one's own research and to be certain whether the published data are based on the current best practices in the field, as reliability has become a well-known problem. Efforts to standardize experimental and reported practices are ongoing throughout the world; to support these efforts, we have developed checklists that provide an easily accessible summary of relevant data. What are these checklists? They summarize what we consider to be the minimum parameters that should be reported and disclosed in our articles. With the emphasis on “minimum”, the checklists have been designed to be as concise as possible, providing an overview of a manuscript at a glance: They are simple to fill in with data that should already be available in the manuscript. Check out the Author Guidelines on our homepage for latest versions, which can be freely downloaded. They also represent our first step in supporting the scientific community towards the realization of reporting standards. Why is this only the “first step”? This year we are planning to further roll out the checklists at Angewandte Chemie as well as the rest of the Chemistry Europe and ACES portfolios. Therefore, our checklists have been prepared in such a way that they fit any journal, regardless of the size, impact factor, and (to a large extent) journal scope. The first checklists cover batteries, supercapacitors, and solar cells. Further checklists (in catalysis and life sciences) are going to be published later in 2023, with even more to follow. To provide you with the best checklists and service, we depend on your feedback: If you think that important parameters are missing or some others could be improved, please let us know! Who prepared the checklists? These checklists were developed by highly experienced and dedicated Editors together with recognized experts in their fields, and we are extremely grateful for the constructive discussion, in particular, with Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua University) and Patrik Johansson (Chalmers University) for the battery checklist; Christoph Brabec and Osbel Almora (both University of Erlangen Nuremberg) as well as Nikos Kopidakis (NREL) for the solar cell checklist; and Thierry Brousse (University of Nantes) for the supercapacitor checklist. Our special thanks go to Volker Presser (INM Saarbrücken), who supported us in the preparation of both the supercapacitor and battery checklists. Who benefits? The checklists are beneficial for our Authors as well Reviewers. As an Author, the checklist lets you know exactly what data we expect in a publication. Keeping in mind that these are only minimal requirements, any further investigation will be beneficial for the quality and can/should be mentioned in the checklist. As a Reviewer, you will be able to quickly assess the performance and scope of a study and know which experiments have been performed before delving into the manuscript itself. Initially, the checklists will only be available for Editors and Reviewers but, at a later stage, they will be published alongside the manuscript, which should benefit the Open Data movement. Chemistry Europe, the association of 16 European chemical societies that co-own ChemElectroChem and its sister journals, is augmenting its journals portfolio with its most ambitious new launch: ChemistryEurope – the journal. ChemistryEurope, conceived as a high-quality, high-impact gold OA journal covering all areas of chemistry, will start in 2023 with the following three editors-in-chief who are already strongly connected to the Chemistry Europe family of journals as board members: Luisa De Cola (Università degli Studi di Milano and Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Italy). Expert for luminescent systems and nano-/porous structures for biomedical applications and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem as well as the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie. Ken Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan). Expert in organic synthesis and transition-metal catalysis and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Ive Hermans (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). Expert in sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering and member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of ChemCatChem and ChemSusChem. ChemistryEurope will feature as the new flagship journal in Chemistry Europe's publishing program, alongside Chemistry – A European Journal, the ChemXChem family, the open access titles led by ChemistryOpen, and all sister journals. As always, we welcome any input from all members of the electrochemistry community. We actively encourage you to get in touch with any feedback, critique or ideas. We very much look forward to hearing from you and wish you, your colleagues, and your families all the very best for 2023! —Kate— Dr. Kate Lawrence Editor-in-Chief ChemElectroChem