The Swiss research community has announced a new national publishing agreement with the open-access publisher Frontiers.
Starting on March 1, 2022, this one-year pilot supports authors from 18 institutions, including hospitals, who will now be able to publish in Frontiers’ broad portfolio of 146 journals, hosted on Frontiers’ award-winning open-science platform. Paid in advance by the institutions through the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL), the arrangement enables the authors to enjoy better research visibility and supports rapid dissemination of their studies across the 1,100 academic disciplines covered by Frontiers’ journals. At the end of the year, the pilot will be evaluated with a view of establishing a longer-term agreement.
For Frontiers, this agreement becomes the seventh national publishing partnership adding to the current cohort of national arrangements with Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, Qatar, Sweden, the UK and 10 additional consortia partnerships, including three with leading funders (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Austrian Science Fund [FWF], and the Luxembourg National Fund), providing seamless and cost-effective access of Frontiers’ services to over 600 individual institutions worldwide.
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