The Frontiers Research Foundation is a Swiss-based, not-for-profit, international, and neutral organization that supports the vision of equal access publishing. The foundation aims to promote equal opportunity to seek, create, share, and use knowledge that is generated by public, philanthropic and foundation funds.

Frontiers journals are operated by the research foundation to address the social needs of scholarly publishing, namely equal opportunity publishing and free dissemination of research results. The journals support Frontiers’ vision of a publishing environment “by researchers for researchers”, and Frontiers Media SA, a publishing company specifically aligned with the Frontiers vision, addresses the commercial needs of high quality article processing, an advanced internet platform, hardcopy production and distribution, advertising and providing services.

In all societies, the individual contributes to the generation of knowledge and, therefore, it is every person’s right – not a privilege - to have unrestricted access.