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Institutional partnerships

24 Sep 2025

Libraries and AI: building trusted partnerships for open research

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a present force, reshaping the landscape of higher education and scholarly communication as it unfolds. For academic libraries, the implications are profound. On one hand, AI holds the potential to accelerate discovery, streamline metadata curation, and empower research analytics. On the other, it brings new questions of ethics, reliability, copyright, data governance, and equity.

Institutional partnerships

17 Sep 2025

Library-led open science: collaborating to support an equitable publishing landscape

The world is on the brink of an open science revolution. By 2030, the global research landscape will look fundamentally different, driven by a shared ambition to make scientific knowledge freely accessible to all. Its successful implementation hinges not just on policy shifts or publisher commitments, but on the sustained engagement of those who work daily to bring together research, access, and infrastructure: librarians.

Institutional partnerships

12 Aug 2025

TU Delft and Frontiers expand long-standing partnership with flat fee publishing agreement

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and leading open-access publisher Frontiers have expanded their collaboration with a flat fee open access publishing agreement for 2025. This marks the latest phase of a partnership that has been in place since 2014, reaffirming TU Delft’s commitment to open science, research accessibility, and sustainable academic publishing. 

Institutional partnerships

28 May 2025

Frontiers and the University of Padua establish flat fee open access agreement for 2025

Frontiers announces a new open access publishing agreement with the University of Padua, supported by its Open Science Committee, ensuring that affiliated researchers can publish their work seamlessly in any of Frontiers’ journals without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs). This one-year agreement, with the possibility of renewal, reinforces the university’s commitment to fostering open science and global knowledge sharing.

Institutional partnerships

07 Apr 2025

Frontiers at the forefront of research integrity: championing trust and transparency at Convegno delle Stelline 2025

At Italy’s premier conference on libraries and scholarly communication, Convegno delle Stelline, Frontiers took a leading role in shaping the national conversation on research integrity and open access. With institutions across the country increasingly seeking collaborative, systemic solutions, Frontiers hosted two workshops - one exploring the evolving ethics of research, and the other showcasing their new Insights Platform, a data-driven dashboard designed to support libraries and institutional decision-makers.

Institutional partnerships

26 Feb 2025

Frontiers and ZB MED mark second year of national agreement to strengthen open access publishing in Germany

Frontiers is pleased to announce the continuation of its partnership with the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) into a second year. Building on the successful collaboration established in 2024, this agreement reinforces our shared commitment to advancing open science by providing researchers across Germany with seamless, cost-effective access to gold open access publishing. 

Institutional partnerships

10 Feb 2025

Sikt renews National open access agreement with Frontiers for 2025

Frontiers has renewed its national open access agreement with Norway for 2025, reinforcing a shared commitment to advancing open science. Originally signed in 2020, this agreement - facilitated by the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt) - streamlines the publishing process for Norwegian researchers and strengthens the country’s leadership in open access publishing.