The Gates Foundation in line with its open access policy supports its grantees in publishing open access by covering article processing charges (APCs) and co-developing Chronos, a platform supporting the selection of open access publishing options and managing the invoicing of APCs.
Frontiers and Chronos have formed a central invoicing agreement for open access publishing. While publishing articles in Frontiers journals is already compliant with the Gates Foundation's open access policy, Chronos has now entered a collaboration with Frontiers to centralise and further simplify the invoicing process for APCs associated with articles by Gates Foundation grantees published in any Frontiers journal.
Gates Foundation-supported authors, when submitting an article, are asked to register with Chronos, and through this collaboration the invoicing and payment of the APCs will be arranged and aggregated directly between Chronos and Frontiers, with authors relieved entirely of this part of the process.
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