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15 Dec 2021

Looking back at the 2021 Frontiers Forum: A year of game-changing science

This year our Frontiers Forum opened its virtual doors in a series of webinars attended by over 21,000 of the world’s leading minds, to discuss and accelerate science-led solutions to the grand challenges of our time. By bringing researchers, policymakers, innovators, and political leaders together around game-changing new developments, the Forum accelerates our Frontiers mission by sparking collaborations and actions to achieve healthy lives on a healthy planet. This year’s webinar series was no exception. The speakers and panelists included two Nobel prize winners, four policy experts, and 11 professors from the world’s top institutions. All thought leaders in their fields, they outlined transformational approaches to stopping greenhouse gas emissions, revolutionizing our education system, and preserving biodiversity. Several of the talks have already grown into open science collaborations that are framing new paradigms in high-priority areas of science. Thank you to everyone who participated and for your overwhelmingly positive feedback. Keep an eye out for our 2022 line-up featuring further ground-breaking developments that will help all of us to live a healthy life on a healthy planet. Catch up on (or re-watch!) these inspiring talks now. 2021 speakers Jump to: Al Gore | The case for climate optimismEsther Duflo | […]

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13 Dec 2021

Investigation of potentially falsified research

A wave of systematically falsified research manuscripts, commonly referred to as ‘paper mill’ papers, threatens to harm the integrity of today’s scientific literature and is of significant concern to all of us. ​ ​As soon as the issue was brought to our attention, we launched an extensive internal investigation. At Frontiers, we continue to follow our strict research integrity processes. If a suspicious article is identified, clarification from authors is sought and raw data investigated. If a satisfactory outcome is not achieved, a retraction will follow.​ ​This issue is a particularly complex one, affecting all leading publishers, and we remain in discussion with several of these to seek an effective and lasting outcome. The scale of the problem has been recognized by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), of which Frontiers is a member and to whom we are grateful for their guidance. ​ ​We are committed to upholding the highest levels of integrity and rigor. As such, we have workflows and preventative measures in place to address the issue.​ We maintain an internal working group dedicated to the issue as part of our existing Research Integrity and Auditing team. This group systematically reviews the situation, monitor for new developments, and share insights where possible.​ We are prototyping a new automated […]

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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 […]

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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.