Frontiers Media
Frontiers is a web-based academic publishing and social networking platform for scientists and researchers. It is a project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal in 2007 and publishes journals, all peer reviewed.
History
Frontiers started in the neuroscience community. The first field journal launched was Frontiers in Neuroscience in 2007. It arises from a reaction to the restriction of knowledge distribution imposed by subscription publishing models, as well as the relatively old-fashioned and low-tech services offered to researchers. The Frontiers journals are what it describes as "open access content"; all content is published under the Creative Commons "attribution" license (Lawrence Lessig, of Creative Commons, is also a member of the Advisory Board). The project states (quoting the Budapest Open Access Initiative) that: "The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."
Business model
To fund the journals, Frontiers charges a publication fee to be paid by the author or the author's employer or funder.
Publications
- Frontiers in Biotechnology
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Frontiers in Genetics
- Frontiers in Immunology
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Frontiers in Neuroscience'‘
- Frontiers in Oncology
- Frontiers in Pharmacology
- Frontiers in Physiology
- Frontiers in Plant Science
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Frontiers in Psychology
Headquarters
Frontiers has its main headquarters in the Science Park, within the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland.