Frontiers (publisher)

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Frontiers  
Discipline Medicine, science, technology
Language English
Publication details
Publisher Frontiers Media S.A. (Switzerland)
Publication history 2007–present
Open access Yes
License Creative Commons
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Frontiers is based in the EPFL Innovation Park of the Lausanne campus (Switzerland).

Frontiers is an academic publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals[1] currently active in the STM (science, technology and medicine) fields.

The project was started in 2007 by a group of active scientists within the Neuroscience community[2] and it expanded to other academic fields.[3] Frontiers was founded by Henry Markram[4] and Kamila Markram,[5] scientists at the EPFL in Switzerland. Frontiers is based on the Lausanne campus.

The web-based publishing platform offers semi-automated submission and processing,[6] and open access publishing of research articles.[3]

Journals

The first journal in the Frontiers series was Frontiers in Neuroscience,[7] which opened for submission as a beta version in 2007, and for official submissions January 2008. In 2010, Frontiers launched another eleven field journals in medicine and science.[8][9][10][11]

List of journals:[3]

  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • Frontiers in Neuroenergetics
  • Frontiers in Neuroengineering
  • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Frontiers in Physics
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

In February 2012, the Frontiers Research Network was launched,[12] a social networking platform for researchers, intended to disseminate the open access articles published in the Frontiers journals, and to provide related conferences, blogs, news, video lectures and job postings.[13]

Business model and Partnership with Nature Publishing Group

According to the Frontiers website, the company, Frontiers Media, "operates the open-access publishing on an author-pay business model, but has a commercial mandate to develop multiple revenue streams that can be used to support open-access publishing, as well as a technology mandate to ensure that scientists benefit from cutting edge IT technologies."

In early 2013 Nature Publishing Group bought a controlling stake[14] in Frontiers.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Members: OA Professional Publishing Organizations". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Retrieved 2013-02-04. 
  2. ↑ Peter Suber, ed. (2007-10-30). "Open Access News: New series of OA journals in neuroscience". Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Journals A-Z". Frontiers Media S.A. 
  4. ↑ "Henry Markram biography". Frontiers Media S.A. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  5. ↑ "Kamila Markram biography". Frontiers Media S.A. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  6. ↑ "Review System". Frontiers. Frontiers. Retrieved 17 December 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Frontiers in Neuroscience: Vols. 1 to 7; 2007 to 2013". National Center for Biotechnology Information. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  8. ↑ "Frontiers in Psychology: Vols. 1 to 4; 2010 to 2013". National Center for Biotechnology Information. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  9. ↑ "Frontiers in Microbiology: Vols. 1 to 4; 2010 to 2013". National Center for Biotechnology Information. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  10. ↑ "Frontiers in Psychiatry: Vols. 1 to 4; 2010 to 2013". National Center for Biotechnology Information. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  11. ↑ "Frontiers in Pharmacology: Vols. 1 to 4; 2010 to 2013". National Center for Biotechnology Information. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  12. ↑ Frontiers announcement: "Frontiers launches Social Networking for Scientists". 9 February 2012. 
  13. ↑ Frontiers "events". 
  14. ↑ "Scientific Publishing: Changing Nature". The Economist. 
  15. ↑ Baynes, Grace. "Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers form alliance to further open science". Nature Publishing Group. 

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