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Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing

July 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

The integration of AIRA -- Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant -- into Frontiers’ digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling [...]

Frontiers’ feedback on the implementation guidance of Plan S

February 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

Update on Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications

Frontiers'response to the call for public feedback on the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S [...]

Submit to Frontiers directly from Chronos and bioRxiv

January 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Chronos, the grantee platform of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and preprint server BioRxiv are now integrated into the Frontiers academic manuscript submission system

Integration with two leading grantee and pre-publication platforms further simplifies the submission process for Frontiers’ authors. [...]

Plan S: a landmark en route to full and immediate Open Access

December 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Recent developments in the transition to Open Access in Europe and beyond [...]

Frontiers supplies full-text articles to Publications Router

November 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Improved service for institutions to capture, store, curate and showcase articles published by their researchers in Frontiers journals [...]

Open Access is here to stay – and machines will enhance its future

October 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Image of data, circuit board and AI. Universal and open access to the scientific literature is well on the way to becoming the accepted standard by which the results of research are shared. The next step is to bring in the machines -- to improve the speed and efficacy of both data analysis and open publishing systems.

Open Access is becoming the accepted standard for sharing research results. The next step is using machines to improve data analysis and publishing systems. [...]

Science without publication paywalls: cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Banner for CoalitionS: Making Open Access a reality by 2020

A group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies’ research funding. [...]

New article submission system for authors

August 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Frontiers article submission system has range of new features to help authors submit their manuscript quickly and efficiently. [...]

Frontiers Open Science Platform enables scientific excellence at scale

December 5, 2017 // 3 Comments

Our state-of the-art Open Science Platform is a key strategy to review, publish, evaluate and disseminate research efficiently and at high quality. [...]

Competing interests in Peer Review: The importance of transparency

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Frontiers is committed to fair, rigorous, and transparent peer review, and we are constantly evaluating our processes to ensure that we provide the highest standards. Transparency is the central theme of Peer Review Week 2017, so we take this opportunity to highlight how we raise the standard for transparency in peer review, with the support of our policies on competing interests.

Transparency is the central theme of Peer Review Week 2017, we highlight how we raise the standard for transparency in Frontiers peer review [...]

Frontiers included in the OAPEN List of Compliant Open Access Book Publishers

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Frontiers invited by the OAPEN Foundation to be included in a list of book publishers that comply with the Open Access requirements of ERC, Wellcome and FWF. [...]

Citations cartels: an emerging problem in scientific publishing

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem [...]

Open Access in Germany – improving all the time

November 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

A recent study analyzes the investment in OA publishing by German research institutions, indicating a growing trend toward full open access and raising important questions about hybrid OA journals. [...]

Open Science roundup, 24 November 2016

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Science Alert This study just revealed why the peer-review process is in so much trouble Nature Peer-review ‘heroes’ do lion’s share of the work [...]

Open Science roundup, 28 October 2016

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phys.org Connecting research and policy may improve educational equity Union of Concerned Scientists Breaking down barriers: publishing Open Access science for [...]

Frontiers Collaborative Peer Review: criteria to accept and reject manuscripts

September 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Frontiers’ founding principle is to empower researchers in the publishing process. We distribute editorial responsibility to our Editorial Boards, to which we appoint leading experts according to strict criteria of excellence. [...]

A History of Academic Peer Review

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Although peer review is now a fundamental quality control measure implemented during the publishing process, the practice as we know it today is quite different from how it [...]

Why peer review needs to be recognized

September 14, 2016 // 1 Comment

Peer review plays a pivotal role in the advancement of scholarly literature. Around 2 million research papers are currently published every year, all assessed by expert [...]

Achieving quality at scale: here’s how we do it with our Collaborative Peer Review

August 21, 2016 // 1 Comment

Frontiers has several key strategies to ensure the highest quality standards possible through our collaborative peer review. [...]

Open Science roundup, 10 June 2016

June 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

NIH Newly launched Genomic Data Commons to facilitate data and clinical information sharing The Bookseller How open is Open Access? Ars Technica Open access: [...]

Open Science roundup, 03 June 2016

June 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ars Technica Open access should be the norm for EU by 2020, say research ministers The Guardian All scientific papers to be free by 2020 under EU proposals [...]

Open Access to science papers will be default by 2020, say European ministers

May 31, 2016 // 4 Comments

By Emily Barker, Communications Strategist at Frontiers There was a breakthrough for open-access publishing on Friday 27 May, as EU research ministers published a commitment [...]

Highlights from Experiences with Open Access Journals

April 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Hausmann, Frontiers Business Development Manager On March 31st we brought five high profile Frontiers editors together for a panel discussion at the ICIS hosted [...]

Peer-reviewing Frontiers

January 27, 2016 // 4 Comments

Surveys among thousands of our authors, editors, reviewers show high overall satisfaction with Frontiers, but also yield constructive criticisms which help us to improve [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – November 13, 2015

November 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

News, views and info on Open Science & scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 30, 2015

October 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 23, 2015

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 17, 2015

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 9, 2015

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 02, 2015

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 12, 2015

September 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 04, 2015

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

September 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – Aug 21, 2015

August 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 14, 2015

August 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 07, 2015

August 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

The silent revolution in peer review

August 3, 2015 // 1 Comment

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. [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 31, 2015

July 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 24, 2015

July 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

July 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

July 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 10, 2015

July 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 03, 2015

July 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Social and semantic networks bring a welcome change in science

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

According to social media experts, scientists can greatly benefit from social networking technologies. General networks offer large audiences for public outreach while specialist and professional platforms help researchers connect with peers. [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 19, 2015

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Who’s to blame for faulty science reporting?

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Frontiers attended the seminar “Selling science? News, public relations and communicating scientific research” organized by Phg Foundation in Cambridge. It was there that we had the pleasure to meet Dr. Andy Williams. [...]