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01 Jan 2022
University of Lleida forms publishing agreement with Frontiers
University of Lleida has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Lleida researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount. The university library University of Lleida supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. This agreement will further encourage University of Lleida researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available. While this reduces costs for the researcher, it also benefits the wider research community and the public at large. For more information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your own organization. Information for researchers If you are a University of Lleida researcher, please select University of Lleida in the payment information section (“Frontiers institutional members”) when submitting your article. Frontiers will verify your eligibility with the library and, if confirmed, the APC will be paid by University of Lleida upon acceptance. For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please visit the University of Lleida OA page […]
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01 Jan 2022
Open University of Catalonia forms publishing agreement with Frontiers
Open University of Catalonia has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Open University of Catalonia researchers may benefit from a 10% discount under the terms of the CSUC Open Access publishing framework agreement. The university library of the Open University of Catalonia supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. This agreement will further encourage Open University of Catalonia researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available. While this reduces costs for the researcher, it also benefits the wider research community and the public at large. For more information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your own organization. Information for researchers To submit your article under this institutional agreement, it is recommended you submit with an email domain affiliated to your institution. When submitting your article, please select Open University of Catalonia under the Institutional Agreements menu in the invoice section. Frontiers will then verify your affiliation with the Open University of Catalonia Library, and if confirmed, the discounted invoice will be sent to you via the Open University of Catalonia invoicing service. […]
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01 Jan 2022
Rovira i Virgili University forms publishing agreement with Frontiers
Rovira i Virgili University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Rovira i Virgili University researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount. The university library at Rovira i Virgili University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. This agreement will further encourage Rovira i Virgili University researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available. While this reduces costs for the researcher, it also benefits the wider research community and the public at large. For more information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your own organization. Information for researchers If you are a Rovira i Virgili University researcher, please select Rovira i Virgili University in the payment information section (“Frontiers institutional members”) when submitting your article. Frontiers will verify your eligibility with the library and, if confirmed, the APC will be paid by Rovira i Virgili University upon acceptance. For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please visit Accés obert: Acords transformatius […]
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11 Nov 2021
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center forms Open-Access Publishing Agreement with Frontiers
As part of the University of Oklahoma’s support in making research more widely available, the Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the University of Oklahoma Libraries have agreed to an institutional membership agreement with Frontiers, enabling OUHSC-affiliated corresponding authors to benefit from a 15% membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) in any of Frontiers’ journals. In addition to the discount, insights into institutional activity will be included in data reports to be made available directly to OUHSC. Information for OUHSC authors: The discount will be automatically applied if OUHSC-affiliated corresponding authors submit manuscripts with a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center institutional email address. If they submit via another email domain, but indicate OUHSC as the affiliation on the paper, Frontiers will verify eligibility for the discount with the Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library at OUHSC. As such, OUHSC-affiliated corresponding authors should use their institutional email address to submit a manuscript whenever possible. For more information on this agreement, please contact the OUHSC Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library at bird-reference@ouhsc.edu. We hope that this agreement will further encourage University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center authors to publish open […]
Frontiers news
11 Nov 2021
The University of Oklahoma-Norman forms Open-Access Publishing Agreement with Frontiers
As part of the University of Oklahoma’s support in making research more widely available, the University Libraries at the University of Oklahoma-Norman have agreed to an institutional membership agreement with Frontiers, enabling OU-Norman-affiliated corresponding authors to benefit from a 15% membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) in any of Frontiers’ journals. In addition to the discount, insights into institutional activity will be included in data reports to be made available directly to OU-Norman. Information for OU-Norman authors: The discount will be automatically applied if OU-Norman-affiliated corresponding authors submit manuscripts with a University of Oklahoma institutional email address. If they submit via another email domain, but indicate OU-Norman as the affiliation on the paper, Frontiers will verify eligibility for the discount with the University Libraries at OU-Norman. As such, OU-Norman-affiliated corresponding authors should use their institutional email address to submit a manuscript whenever possible. For more information on this agreement, please contact the University Libraries at OU-Norman at scholarlycommunication@ou.edu. We hope that this agreement will further encourage University of Oklahoma-Norman authors to publish open access. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements, please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your organization. (Updated 31 January […]
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02 Nov 2021
Frontiers and University of Southern Denmark form open access publishing agreement
We are delighted to announce that University of Southern Denmark (SDU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of University of Southern Denmark (SDU) supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, SDU has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, eligible authors from SDU may publish in any Frontiers journal with a 10% discount. This agreement will further encourage SDU authors to publish open access, increasing uptake of open access to the results of mostly publicly funded research, to the benefit of the scholarly community and the public at large, while reducing costs. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please use your SDU email address when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with the SDU library, and if confirmed, a 10% discount will be applied on the invoice. If the article is submitted via another email domain, but indicate SDU as the first affiliation on the paper, Frontiers will verify eligibility for the discount with the SDU library. SDU-affiliated corresponding authors should use their institutional email address to submit a manuscript […]
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29 Oct 2021
Frontiers and the Akershus University Hospital form open access publishing agreement
We are delighted to announce The Akershus University Hospital (Akershus Universitetssykehus) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, eligible authors from Akershus University Hospital will benefit from a 10% membership discount under the terms of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with the Akershus University Hospital. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please select ‘Akershus University Hospital’ as institutional payer in the invoice section when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with the Akershus University Hospital and if confirmed, the discounted invoice will be sent to you via the Akershus University Hospital. For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please contact the Medical Library at biblioteket@ahus.no. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your organisation.
Frontiers news
07 Oct 2021
The University of Kansas to Trial Open-Access Publishing Agreement with Frontiers
This announcement refers to the old Frontiers - Kansas University partnership agreement that ended in October 2022. As of January 1, 2024, Kansas has an open access flat fee agreement. Read more.
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06 Oct 2021
Frontiers and Leuphana University of Lüneburg form open access publishing agreement
We are delighted to announce that Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of Leuphana University of Lüneburg supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Leuphana University of Lüneburg has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, eligible authors from Leuphana University of Lüneburg may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Eligible authors will benefit from a streamlined invoicing process, managed directly between Frontiers and the Open Access team at the Library of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, relieving authors of the responsibility of payment. Furthermore, Leuphana University of Lüneburg and its Library will benefit from a discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for articles covered by this agreement. This agreement will further encourage Leuphana University of Lüneburg authors to publish open access, increasing uptake of open access to the results of mostly publicly funded research, to the benefit of the scholarly community and the public at large, while reducing costs. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please […]
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16 Sep 2021
The JISC UK National Open Access Agreement with Frontiers – Two Years in.
In 2019, Frontiers signed a three year national open access agreement in the UK with JISC Collections. Thanks to this landmark deal, UK universities now benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK. As we approach the second anniversary of the agreement, we are pleased to announce an overwhelmingly positive response from UK universities. More than half of all UK articles published by Frontiers come from the growing number of universities participating in this agreement (see list below). UK universities and its researchers benefit from the advantages of publishing in open access, which include global immediate and unrestricted reading access and permanent open archiving. Other benefits of joining the agreement include: A 10% discount on the publication costs (APCs),Authors are relieved from responsibilities of payment and invoicing,Three central invoicing options for institutions to choose from,Institutions determine which articles are eligible to be paid for centrally,Institutions are supported by dedicated account managers. There is still time to sign-up to the agreement via the JISC website here. (Agreement details for Frontiers Open Access publishing UK framework agreement 2019-2022 available here.) This year, Frontiers also launched a dedicated dashboard for institutional members that allows the university […]
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05 Aug 2021
Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal
Frontiers announces its first open-access agreement with Asian institution One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and the open-access publisher Frontiers have today announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy. The agreement, the first of its type in Asia for Frontiers, means that article processing charges (APCs) for articles by eligible NHRI authors in any Frontiers journal (currently 126) will be processed centrally via the NHRI library. Furthermore, NHRI and its authors will benefit from a 5% membership discount on processing charges for articles covered by this agreement. Under the terms of the deal, articles will be published under the CC-BY license and will be immediately and completely free to read. APCs will be processed through a centralized monthly billing mechanism to further reduce administrative costs and the workload for NHRI and its authors. For more than 25 years, NHRI has been a driving force for open access in […]
Frontiers news
07 Jul 2021
Frontiers forms open access publishing agreement with the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
Under the terms of Luxembourg’s new national publishing agreement with Frontiers, the Luxembourg National Research Fund will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors, benefitting from a 7.5% membership discount per this agreement. For more information on Luxembourg’s national publishing agreement with Frontiers, please see the announcements by the National Library of Luxembourg (BNL) and Frontiers. Information for authors: Authors should submit their FNR-funded manuscripts through ChronosHub to have the eligible APC amount directly paid by the FNR. Please ensure that your FNR funding, including the grant number, is included both in the Funding statement during submission and in the manuscript text. If you have any questions, or to check if your article is eligible, please contact fnr@chronoshub.io, or see the FNR Open Access Policy. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page, or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your organization.
Frontiers news
07 Jul 2021
Frontiers and the Luxembourg Institute of Health form open access publishing agreement
The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, LIH will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, LIH will benefit from a 7.5% membership discount under the terms of Luxembourg’s new national publishing agreement with Frontiers. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with the Luxembourg Institute of Health. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please select “Luxembourg Institute of Health” as institutional payer in the invoice section when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with LIH, and if confirmed, the APC (minus the discount) will be paid by the Luxembourg Institute of Health upon acceptance. For more information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require further details, please contact Coralie.Dessenne@lih.lu. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page, or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your organization.
Frontiers news
07 Jul 2021
Frontiers and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology form open access publishing agreement
The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, the LIST will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology will benefit from a 7.5% membership discount under the terms of the national open access publishing agreement with Consortium Luxembourg. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. Information for authors: To submit your article under this agreement, please select ‘Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology’ as the payer in the invoice section when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with the LIST Library, and if confirmed, the APC (minus the discount) will be paid by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology upon acceptance. For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please contact the LIST Library at infodoc@list.lu. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page, or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your organization.
Frontiers news
14 Jun 2021
Luxembourg and Frontiers strike national Open Access publishing agreement
Luxembourg’s research community has strengthened its commitment to Open Access through a new national publishing agreement, announced this week. The Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg, the country’s national library, and the open access publisher Frontiers have reached a three-year publishing deal that will run until February 2024. Managed by the Consortium Luxembourg national library service, participating organizations include: the Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Institute of Health, and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, as well as the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), making it the first publisher agreement to include the main funder in Luxembourg. This is also the first deal between a national consortium and Frontiers with an annual payment structure, a model designed to help streamline and simplify operations. Eligible authors from participating institutions now benefit from reduced administration when they publish in any one of Frontiers’ portfolio of 116 open access journals at no cost to themselves. Frontiers, the Consortium and FNR will now directly manage tasks such as making payments and managing communications. Organizations benefit from online tools for eligibility verification, transparent and comprehensive reporting on expenditures, a dedicated account support manager, and publishing fee discounts. Crucially, the agreement also means participating organizations and […]