Frontiers says under the one-year agreement, which will commence in January 2024, corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Kansas’ Lawrence and Edwards campuses, will receive unlimited publishing across all 223 Frontiers journals without charge to the researcher.
Scott Hanrath, associate dean of research engagement at the University of Kansas said: “KU Libraries is committed to meeting the needs of KU researchers by leading efforts that move scholarly publishing toward a more open, sustainable future. Our agreement with Frontiers will make it easier and more affordable for KU-affiliated researchers to publish their work in open access journals.”
Ronald Buitenhuis, Frontiers' head of institutional partnerships said: "It is our pleasure to welcome the University of Kansas to our family of over more than 700 institutional partners and to celebrate this agreement which, for the first time under our new 'flat-fee' model, covers publishing in all Frontiers’ journals. The partnership marks a new chapter for KU affiliated researchers who will now benefit from publishing in all Frontiers fully open access journals without charge to the researcher.”
The agreement follows the announcement in August 2023 of Frontiers' first 'flat-fee' partnership with California Digital Library (CDL), University of California (UC), which includes 19 Frontiers journals selected by CDL from Frontiers Humanities and Social Sciences and Sustainability portfolios.
These partnerships support the goal, shared by those committed to open science, to shift the paradigm away from traditional subscriptions, transformative read and publish models, and APC driven agreements, added the publisher. Created in collaboration with their institutional partners, the flat-fee model is a natural progression towards this goal and aims to contribute to improved transparency and reduced administrative effort in the publishing market.
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