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Navigating scholarly publishing can be a financial challenge. Unpredictable costs can disrupt your plans. Switch to the Frontiers flat fee fully open access model.
With a consistent annual fee, you can budget effectively and focus on other priorities.
Institutional partnerships simplify the process for authors publishing in our journals and contribute to the growing number of articles openly available worldwide.
Several institutions across the world already collaborate with Frontiers in this way, and we're ready to support you and your researchers.
We are driven by the goal of placing publishing back into the hands of researchers. Our institutional partnerships make it easy for any author to publish with Frontiers by removing payment obstacles and streamlining the publishing process.
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Your library plays a vital role in driving impactful research, and we’re maximizing it by removing the barriers to publishing. Enjoy discounts, dedicated support and a simplified process for your researchers.
Partnering with us ensures that your research is accessible to a wider audience, boosting the profile and reach of your consortium.
Together we can support your grantees with increased access to high-quality papers.
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Reduced publishing costs, efficient communication channels, and a tailored dashboard where you can approve funding, monitor engagement and download reports.
The Frontiers Institutional Partnerships program offers flexible and predictable payment models. We ensure that institutions can allocate resources effectively while supporting open access initiatives.
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Researchers are the core of the publishing community. With open access publishing, researchers can collaborate better and innovate faster. Discover if your institution is already part of the Frontiers partner community,
Find out if your institution is currently partnering with Frontiers and review our eligibility criteria.
A Research Topic is a peer-reviewed article collection (similar to a special issue) that brings together researchers across disciplines to publish articles responding to critical research questions, emerging issues, and new ideas.
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Each partnership is unique, so it's crucial that you know how your institution will benefit. Our useful FAQ page is a good place to start.
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Frontiers announces the roll-out of its flat fee open access model for institutions and strengthens its partnership models with a wide range of institutions based on their individual research and budgetary needs.
As a leading open access (OA) publisher, Frontiers is proud to have attended and sponsored this year's LIBER conference.
Frontiers recently joined the library community at BiblioCon in Hamburg. The conference served as a platform to exchange ideas and gain insights into the critical issues institutions and their representatives are facing.
The Frontiers institutional partnerships team is on a mission to transform the scholarly communication landscape, and we can't do it without you. We partner with institutions and researchers to break down barriers and unlock the full potential of OA.
Frontiers has entered into a national agreement with Sweden’s academic consortium Bibsam that will allow unlimited publishing in all Frontiers' journals without charge to authors or to institutions.
Frontiers and the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) have announced the launch of the first transformed framework agreement - a national, fully open access flat-fee deal - for Germany.