Frontiers announces membership of STM
Gold open access publisher Frontiers has announced that it has become a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, better known [...]
Scholarly publishing
Working with societies – join us in conversation with Society Street
How can publishers best support societies in the increasingly complex landscape of scholarly publishing? Frontiers’ head of publishing partnerships, Robyn Mugridge, will [...]
IBMS to transition leading biomedical journal to Gold Open Access
Image: Tom Robertson/Shutterstock.com The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has announced the transition of the British Journal of Biomedical Science (BJBS) from hybrid [...]
ESOT to transform major journal to Gold Open Access
Image: Flamingo Images/Shutterstock.com The European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) has announced the transition of Transplant International from Hybrid access to [...]
Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing
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
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
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
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 [...]
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. [...]
New article submission system for authors
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
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
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
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. [...]
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 [...]
Frontiers Collaborative Peer Review: criteria to accept and reject manuscripts
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
By Frontiers 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 [...]
Why peer review needs to be recognized
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 [...]
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 [...]
Achieving quality at scale: here’s how we do it with our Collaborative Peer Review
Frontiers has several key strategies to ensure the highest quality standards possible through our collaborative peer review. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Peer-reviewing Frontiers
By Frontiers Surveys among thousands of our authors, editors, reviewers show high overall satisfaction with Frontiers, but also yield constructive criticisms which help us [...]
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. [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – December 11, 2015
News, views & info on Open Science, Open Access, Peer Review & scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – December 04, 2015
News, views & info on Open Science, Open Access, Peer Review & scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – November 27, 2015
News, views & info on Open Science, Open Access, Peer Review & scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – November 20, 2015
News, views & info on Open Science, Open Access, Peer Review & scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 30, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 23, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
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Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 17, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
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 Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 02, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]
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 [...]