Open Access

Frontiers has expanded its publishing partnership with ZBMed, the Germany-based life sciences centre, and signed an agreement to deposit article metadata in its new Open Life Science Publication Database (OLSPub), being the first publisher to agree to supply this information to the new database.

The DIAMAS final conference celebrated the 9 project outputs that have been integrated into the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) in Brussels on 3 June 2025. It shone a light on how DIAMAS outputs will support the community to implement and sustain the Diamond OA model in Europe and beyond.

Frontiers and the University of Miami are pleased to announce a new flat fee open access publishing agreement. Through this partnership, affiliated researchers can publish in a selection of leading peer-reviewed journals without incurring article processing charges (APCs), which are fully covered by the University.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) had hoped to make all its journals open access (OA) by 2028, but has now decided against a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, it will tailor models by region based on local needs, funding and infrastructure.

Frontiers has expanded its publishing partnership with ZBMed, the Germany-based life sciences centre, and signed an agreement to deposit article metadata in its new Open Life Science Publication Database (OLSPub), being the first publisher to agree to supply this information to the new database.

MDPI, a leading open access (OA) publisher, has announced that 298 MDPI journals have been indexed in the latest edition of Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR), released yesterday, reflecting the continued growth and demand for open access publishing from the scholarly community worldwide.

Launched in June 2015 as part of UCL’s commitment to open research and scholarship, UCL Press provides scholars with the opportunity to publish their...

Springer Nature and the Higher Education Electronic Resources Consortium (KONSEPt) the Malaysian consortium for higher education and research institutions, have today announced the first national Transformative Agreement (TA) in Malaysia and among Southeast Asia countries. This landmark agreement demonstrates the increasing momentum across economies of all sizes for open access (OA) publishing, and the increasing global move to open science and research.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance has signed a two-year Open Publishing Agreement with Springer Nature, making it the publisher’s first truly unlimited and uncapped open access agreement in the Americas. This is the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s fifth Open Publishing Agreement or OPA, and its most expansive to date.

We have now launched our Next 50% project, with a primer document that frames a fresh conversation about the future of open access. The timing is critical....

The global impact of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) research is set to increase under a new open access (OA) agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis. The three-year partnership will enable UNAM researchers to publish OA articles in more than 2,400 journals.

Lausanne-based open access publisher Frontiers is pleased to be the main sponsor of the 2025 LIBER Conference, taking place this summer in the open access publisher’s home city.