2020 – The Year of Open Science
Frontiers' CEO and co-founder Kamila Markram message for the end of 2020 - the year of open science. [...]
Open access
2020 in review: A turning point for scholarly publishing?
Frontiers' Chief Publishing Officer, Mirjam Eckert, considers the impact of 2020 scholarly publishing itself. [...]
2020 in review: A year in Open Science policy
Stephan Kuster, Head of Institutional Relations, looks back at what 2020 has meant for policy and science. [...]
Frontiers welcomes the call from UNESCO, WHO and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for all science to be made open
Frontiers' statement of support for: UNESCO, WHO and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights call for “open science.” [...]
Initiative for Open Abstracts ‘I4OA’ sees cross-industry support
Today sees the launch of - and Frontiers' commitment to - the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I40A). We are pleased to be named as having stated our support and enthusiasm for it and look forward to the additional layer of impact and discoverability the initiative will bring. [...]
The role of peer review in publishing
Peer review plays an integral role in the proliferation of knowledge. Find out more about Frontier's rigorous and transparent peer review process. [...]
Current Transformative Agreements Are Not Transformative
Recent large scale "Publish and Read" deals lack the transformative conditions that are necessary to bring about the transition to OA. [...]
Forschungszentrum Jülich and Frontiers develop world’s largest pure open access framework agreement
Forschungszentrum Jülich and open access publisher Frontiers signed on 17 February 2020 a Memorandum of
Understanding for a pilot National Open Access Publishing Framework for Germany. [...]
Postponed: Al Gore to lead global ‘healthy planet, healthy lives’ forum in Switzerland
Frontiers will host some of the world’s top scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders at our annual Forum in Montreux this May. [...]
Major Boost to Open Access Publishing as Norway Signs New National Agreement
A landmark national agreement has been signed by the Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education & Research (Unit) and Frontiers. [...]
Unlocking industry research: Frontiers lends support to Open Pharma’s bold ambition
Frontiers has endorsed the mission of Open Pharma, a group of pharmaceutical companies and research funders, to make all privately funded research free to read and reuse from the date of publication. [...]
Frontiers partners with journal policy database TRANSPOSE
Partnership with TRANSPOSE enables Frontiers’ open-access policies to reach a wider audience [...]
Frontiers joins the National Academy of Sciences’ list for author transparency
Publishers and funders on the NAS list commit to transparent publishing practices [...]
Frontiers’ feedback on the implementation guidance of Plan S
Frontiers'response to the call for public feedback on the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S [...]
Plan S: a landmark en route to full and immediate Open Access
Recent developments in the transition to Open Access in Europe and beyond [...]
Frontiers supplies full-text articles to Publications Router
Improved service for institutions to capture, store, curate and showcase articles published by their researchers in Frontiers journals [...]
Is Europe investing enough in Open Science?
Open Science offers both competitive and collaborative advantages, and is vital to boost the impact of Horizon Europe. [...]
Open Access is here to stay – and machines will enhance its future
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
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. [...]
Open Access: the time is now, the place is Europe!
Dr Kamila Markram joined the stage with Robert Jan Smits from the European Commission and leading academics at the 2018 EuroScience Open Forum. [...]
Scientific Excellence at Scale: Open Access journals have a clear citation advantage over subscription journals
Frontiers is the 4th most cited publisher amongst the 20 largest publishers, ranked by average citations over a three-year period (2015-2017). The same analysis also reveals a citation advantage of Open Access journals over subscription journals in the last three years. [...]
Sweden commits to Open Science with new Open Access publishing deal
The national agreement allows researchers in Sweden to publish in Frontiers’ journals through a simplified process with discounted fees. [...]
Frontiers partners with Figshare to promote open data
The new partnership improves the visualization and citation of supplementary data, allows more types of data with articles, and helps satisfy requirements for open and FAIR data [...]
New Open Access publishing deal for Austrian researchers
Landmark Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement signed between Frontiers, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) & University of Vienna [...]
Frontiers Open Science Platform enables scientific excellence at scale
Our state-of the-art Open Science Platform is a key strategy to review, publish, evaluate and disseminate research efficiently and at high quality. [...]
Frontiers included in the OAPEN List of Compliant Open Access Book Publishers
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. [...]
160-million Papers and Counting: The World’s Information Deluge
Academic output has exploded over the last 100 years but how can the most relevant research be found? — by Melissa Cochrane In 2009, it’s estimated there were at [...]
Open Access in Germany – improving all the time
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
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
Phys.org Connecting research and policy may improve educational equity Union of Concerned Scientists Breaking down barriers: publishing Open Access science for [...]
Open Science roundup, 21 October 2016
Science Business Open science is “golden opportunity” for publishers Science Science in the Oval Office: 1933–2016 Science News Blame bad incentives for [...]
Open Science roundup, 07 October 2016
Technologist Opening up science Times Higher Education Billions lost in bids to secure EU research funding Times Higher Education Lost in CV limbo Health [...]
Open Science roundup, 05 Sep 2016
The Scientist US Gov’t Takes On Predatory Publishers STATNews Are ‘predatory’ publishers’ days numbered? Motherboard Scientists Are Worried About [...]
Open Science roundup, 22 July 2016
The latest news on Open Science, publishing and peer review [...]
Open Science roundup, 15 July 2016
STAT With a new owner, the hated ‘journal impact factor’ is overdue for a change The Scientist Web of Science Sold for More Than $3 Billion Vox The 7 biggest problems [...]
Open Science roundup, 17 June 2016
What's new in peer review, Open Science and scholarly publishing? [...]
Open Science roundup, 10 June 2016
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
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
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 [...]
Open Science roundup, 27 May 2016
Science Magazine Top French scientists slam surprise budget cut Science Business Research ministers will move to make open access the default by 2020 [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 20, 2016
What's new in Open Science, peer review & academic publishing? [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – April 22, 2016
The Guardian Opening up scientific publishing for the Flickr generation Nature Peer review: troubled from the start Science Magazine New research ship highlight of otherwise [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – April 15, 2016
Stat News Why our peer review system is a toothless watchdog The Guardian How can we keep science honest in a world of open data? New Europe Speech by [...]
Highlights from Experiences with Open Access Journals
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 [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – March 11, 2016
Science Business Few countries ready to adopt gold standard open access to scientific journals Times Higher Education Good scientist or successful academic? You [...]
Frontiers eBooks published in February 2016
Below is a list of Frontiers eBooks published in February 2016. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. Science: The Molecular Pathology of Cognitive [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – February 26, 2016
Motherboard Obama’s pick for librarian of congress is an Open Access champion Nature Peer review in the cloud EurekAlert! Researchers: Peer review system for [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – February 09, 2016
Science Budget 2017: Read our round up of Obama’s science funding requests Nature Obama makes risky bid to increase science spending Science Australia’s [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – January 29, 2016
What were last week's developments in Open Science and scholarly publishing? Find them here. [...]
Frontiers predicts enhanced services will be the future of scholarly publishing
In addition to the basic services all OA publishers provide, Frontiers has developed 14 premier services to offer a more service-orientated approach to scholarly publishing. [...]
