Born Digital: building the ultimate open-access publisher
By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers The digital disruption for analog film started in 1975 with the invention of the digital camera by Steven Sasson and ended with the [...]
Open Science and Peer Review
Selecting for impact: new data debunks old beliefs
One of the strongest beliefs in scholarly publishing is that journals seeking a high impact factor (IF) should be highly selective, accepting only papers predicted to become [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 17, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Key discussion points from Open Access Days in Zurich
Frontiers had the pleasure of attending The Open Access Tage 2015 on the 7th and 8th of September, this year at the University of Zurich. [...]
Frontiers’ financial commitment to open access publishing
As a publisher, it is our duty to ensure that the business fundamentals behind Frontiers are sound and sustainable. We are responsible towards the community, to the more than 60,000 researchers who have formally joined our editorial boards, to the 140,000 authors who have published with us, and to our employees. [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 9, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Access, a fortune to less developed countries
Not all people have equal access to science. In places where funds are particularly scarce, open access to science could bring fortune. Defining fortune The development of a [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 02, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Chinese science: an open book?
By Anthony King, science journalist. Chinese scientists are increasingly attracted to open access journals, particularly those with international reach and recognized kudos. [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 12, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 04, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Publishers stand together in the fight against fraudulent peer review
In recent months, several academic publishers have been forced to retract a combined total of over 250 published articles across a number of disciplines due to irregularities [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 28, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 07, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
The silent revolution in peer review
Changes in scholarly publishing over the last 20 y include the emergence of preprint servers and the growth of OA. But other important changes have received less publicity. Richard Walker and Pascal Rocha da Silva discuss.
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Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 31, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 24, 2015
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup - May 22, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
EC endorses Gold Open Access with new pilot project
The European Commission (EC) recently announced a new pilot project that supports publishing with Gold Open Access publishers like Frontiers. The pilot, [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 17, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 10, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 03, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 19, 2015
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Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 12, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
What people were talking about at spring OA conferences
This is a short point-by-point discussion of the major issues and discussion points which arose at spring conferences and which would seem to represent key concerns regarding open-access publishing. [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 05, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 29, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Discover Magazine Blog What to do about a slow peer reviewer? The Guardian [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 22, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Chronicle of Higher Education ‘We need to take a look at the data’: how 2 [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 15, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week The Guardian Will traditional science journals disappear? Fusion This [...]
Kamila Markram’s Euroscientist Interview: Changing the way academics work
Frontiers Co-Founder and CEO Kamila Markram sat down with Euroscientist to discuss how Frontiers is designed to remedy some of the shortcomings of the academic publishing process
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Why you should review papers for Frontiers in Educational Psychology
By Carl Senior By encouraging the generation of a co-authored commentary both the reviewer and the author can work together in a collegial and constructive environment to [...]
Frontiers releases new Interactive Review Forum
Frontiers is pleased to announce the release of its new, revolutionary Interactive Review Forum with enhanced features and upgraded software to enhance and ease the [...]
Open access and the Science “sting”
Open Letter to the Frontiers Editorial Boards On October 4, Science magazine published a news item describing the submission of a fake research article to more than 250 [...]