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Frontiers and Max Planck Society sign publishing cooperation agreement for open access journals

Frontiers Media, an open access publisher based in Switzerland, and the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany’s leading basic research organization, announced today that they have signed a funding agreement to support scientific authors who submit research papers to all Frontiers journals.

Effective November 1, 2011, all publication charges for research articles submitted by authors affiliated with any Max Planck Institute will be directly and fully funded by the Max Planck Society. This institutional agreement is valid for all current and future Frontiers journals.

Ralf Schimmer, Head of Scientific Information Provision at the Max Planck Digital Library, stated: “Responding to requests from our researchers and as a further component in our emerging open access support infrastructure, we are very pleased with our new agreement. In general, we want to make it easy for our researchers to choose open access journals for their publications; and in particular, we look for open access publishers such as Frontiers who are committed to the highest professional and scientific quality standards.”

Kamila Markram, Frontiers Co-Founder and CEO, noted that “The support we’ve received from the Max Planck Society makes it easier for MPS researchers to publish their work in our high-quality open access journals, and is also a significant and exciting step in helping Frontiers to reach our goal of providing all researchers with the opportunity to choose open access and share their results and ideas as broadly as possible. We will continue to offer the leading online open access platform, one which guarantees the highest quality peer review and production and enables unrestricted dissemination of researchers’ work.”

The Max Planck Society (www.mpg.de) is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 17 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The currently 80 Max Planck Institutes conduct basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Max Planck Institutes focus on research fields that are particularly innovative, or that are especially demanding in terms of funding or time requirements.

Frontiers (www.frontiersin.org), founded in 2007, is a Swiss-based international open access publishing enterprise. Since then, Frontiers has launched journals covering 12 academic fields in the life sciences, with planned expansion into several more, and has published more than 3,500 peer reviewed papers. Today, the Frontiers website receives an average of 2 million page views per month. More than half a million open access scientific papers have been downloaded freely from Frontiers journals. With a growing number of services, Frontiers aims to be home to the world’s largest academic online research community.

Lausanne, November 3, 2011

Contact:
Max Planck Digital Library
Tina Planck
Amalienstr. 33
80799 Munich, Germany
T. +49 (0)89 38602-249
F. +49 (0)89 38602-290
Planck@mpdl.mpg.de
www.mpdl.mpg.de

Contact:
Frontiers Media SA
Giovanni Lippi, Institutional Plans
Science Park PSE-D
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
T +41(0)21 693 92 02
F +41(0)21 693 92 01
institutions@frontiersin.org
www.frontiersin.org

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Frontiers and Max Planck Society sign publishing cooperation agreement for open access journals