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15 May 2020

Frontiers and Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research form open access publishing agreement

Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research 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 Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please select ‘Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research’ as institutional payer in the invoice section when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, and if confirmed, the APC (minus the discount) will be paid by Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research upon acceptance. For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please contact  ase.grundstrom@nibio.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.

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04 May 2020

University of Arizona extends open access publishing agreement with Frontiers

We are delighted to announce that the University of Arizona (UA) Libraries and Frontiers have extended their institutional membership agreement for open access publishing. As part of UA’s support in making research more widely available, the UA Libraries held an institutional membership trial agreement with Frontiers, enabling UA-affiliated corresponding authors to benefit from a 7.5% membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) until the end of 2019. This collaboration has now been further formalized and extended, and starting in 2020 UA-affiliated corresponding authors, when publishing in any of Frontiers’ (currently) over 110 journals (which are all fully open access), will enjoy a 10% membership discount on APCs. This new agreement is effective March 1st 2020. All other arrangements (data reports to the Libraries, verification process) stay the same, and for quick and automated application of the discount, authors are asked to submit their manuscripts using their University of Arizona institutional email address. For more information on this agreement, please see the trial agreement blog post and/or contact open-access@email.arizona.edu. For background information about the UA Open Access Policy and open access publishing options, visit UA Libraries’ webpages on open access publishing. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships […]

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28 Apr 2020

Zurich University of Applied Sciences forms publishing agreement with Frontiers

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible ZHAW researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. ZHAW will cover costs for eligible publications as long as the ZHAW open access publication fund is not exhausted. 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  For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please visit the ZHAW open access website or contact openaccess@zhaw.ch. If you are a ZHAW researcher, please select Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in the payment information section (“Frontiers institutional members”) when submitting your article. Frontiers will verify your eligibility with the ZHAW library and, if confirmed, the APC will be paid by ZHAW upon acceptance.

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21 Apr 2020

CERN will centrally cover APCs for Frontiers’ journals

We are delighted to announce that the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), will centrally cover article processing charges (APCs) for eligible articles by its researchers published in any Frontiers journal. Furthermore, CERN will benefit from a 10% membership discount on APCs for articles covered by this arrangement. Information for authors: Before submission, please send a message to open-access-questions@cern.ch to start the administrative procedure for the payment. All articles with at least one CERN-affiliated author are eligible for central CERN funding to cover the APC under this agreement.  Please make sure also that ‘European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)’ is selected as institutional payer in the invoice section when submitting your article to Frontiers (this is particularly important if the CERN author is not the corresponding author). Frontiers will then verify the eligibility with CERN and, if confirmed, the APC (minus the discount) will be paid by CERN upon acceptance. For information on whether your article is eligible under this agreement, or if you require any further details, please visit CERN’s webpages on Open Access or contact CERN via open-access-questions@cern.ch. For information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss […]