Institutional partnerships
18 Feb 2025
The inaugural National Congress on Research Integrity, held in Rome on January 27-28, 2025, marked a defining moment for Italy’s research ethics landscape. Spearheaded by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), the Congress provided an unparalleled platform for dialogue, collaboration, and commitment to fostering a robust culture of research integrity (RI).
Featured news
10 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 2025
Frontiers is pleased to announce a new three-year flat fee agreement with Manchester Metropolitan University (Man Met) starting in 2025. This agreement allows Man Met to provide its researchers with unlimited publishing opportunities in all Frontiers journals, free from individual article processing charges (APCs).
Frontiers news
24 Jan 2025
As Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram set out ambitions for an Open Science Charter to make climate change research freely available worldwide, Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota confirmed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s “personal decision” to host COP30 in Belém at the COP 30 in the Amazon: Shaping Our Planetary Future event on 23 January at the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Annual Meeting.
Frontiers news
22 Jan 2025
Frontiers signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today (22 January) with the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Davos that offers researchers further opportunities to integrate their research findings into the Forum's initiatives.
Institutional partnerships
09 Jan 2025
At just 25 years old, the University of Insubria - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - has already established itself as a trailblazer in academia. With its strong focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM), as well as economics and social sciences, the university has made research excellence, sustainability, and innovation its guiding principles.
Frontiers updates
19 Dec 2024
We reflect on some highlights of 2024, a year in which quality and research integrity continued to be at the top of our agenda, and some significant achievements as we continue to champion open science.
Frontiers news
16 Dec 2024
The julkaisufoorumi (JUFO) is a national classification forum created by the Finnish scientific community to support the assessment of quality scholarly journals. While Frontiers supports all efforts by research communities and publishers to uphold and improve journal quality, we and the researchers we work with are deeply concerned by JUFO’s confirmed decision (16 December) to change en masse the classification of Gold Open Access journals.
Frontiers news
06 Dec 2024
An open letter was published today on openletter.earth from concerned researchers in Finland responding to the JUFO decision regarding Frontiers.
Featured news
30 Sep 2024
Frontiers, a leading publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals, is pleased to announce a new partnership with China’s National Science and Technology Library (NSTL). This collaboration marks a pivotal moment in the advancement of open science and research dissemination within the Chinese scientific community, addressing key challenges faced by researchers and institutions alike.
Featured news
11 Jul 2024
Frontiers, a leading open access publisher dedicated to scientific advancement, announced the roll-out of its flat fee open access model for institutions.
Frontiers news
28 May 2024
Every year, creatives, innovators, and visionaries from around the world gather in Austin, Texas for a celebration of human creativity at South by Southwest (SXSW). The week-long conference offers a vibrant convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture. Over 450 sessions, from keynotes and feature speakers to panels and workshops, enable participants to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals from across industries. Among the topics of focus for this year’s SXSW was climate change. A dedicated ‘track’, or lineup, of sessions explored the most promising ideas on mitigating or adapting to the effects of global warming and in-depth coverage of the consequences of unpredictable weather patterns and rising ocean levels.
Frontiers news
10 May 2024
The Villars Institute Summit 2024 was a pivotal gathering of minds, set against the picturesque backdrop of Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. Over three days, more than 280 experts, entrepreneurs, investors, and philanthropists met to address the pressing challenges of our time: the climate and biodiversity crises. Through plenary discussions, workshops, and roundtables, participants focused on how interdisciplinary cooperation can accelerate systemic change and address these crises in a holistic manner.
Frontiers news
18 Apr 2024
Climate change poses an existential threat to society. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are fueling environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and water insecurity, economic disruption, conflict, and terrorism. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 identifies climate-related changes as some of the most severe risks over the next decade. And nearly two-thirds of the 1.2 million participants in the United Nations Development Programme’s 2021 People Climate Vote said that climate change is a ‘global emergency.’
Frontiers news
17 Apr 2024
The Frontiers Research Foundation is an official sponsor of INGSA 2024: The Transformation Imperative, the fifth international conference of the International Network for Governmental Science Advice (INGSA). Governed by the overarching theme of diversity and inclusion within the iterative and dynamic process of science advice, the conference will focus on transformation, expanded evidence, and inclusion. The event will be held 30 April – 3 May 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda.
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