Frontiers is one of the world's largest open-access publishers, producing over 200 peer-reviewed journals across science, medicine, humanities, and social science. Every article is freely available as a PDF under CC BY — no paywall, no login required.
Frontiers PDFs use the standard two-column journal layout with colour figures, which renders poorly on an e-reader's narrow screen. Converting to EPUB gives you a clean single-column reflowable document for reading on a Kindle or Kobo with adjustable font, night mode, and offline access.
| Journal | Field | Articles/year | PDF cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers in Neuroscience | Neuroscience (all subfields) | High volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Psychology | Psychology (all subfields) | Very high volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Public Health | Public health & epidemiology | High volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Genetics | Genetics & genomics | High volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | Ecology & conservation | Medium volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Medicine | Clinical medicine (all) | High volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Oncology | Cancer biology & oncology | High volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Immunology | Immunology & inflammation | Very high volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Education | Educational research | Medium volume | Free, CC BY |
| Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence | AI & machine learning | Medium volume | Free, CC BY |
10.3389 — paste the full DOI at https://doi.org/10.3389/XXXXX to navigate directly to the article.| Publisher | Journals | Key strength | DOI prefix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers | 200+ | Breadth across sciences | 10.3389 |
| PLOS | 10 | High-impact selective | 10.1371 |
| BioMed Central | 300+ | Biomedicine depth | 10.1186 |
| eLife | 1 | Prestige biology/medicine | 10.7554 |
| PeerJ | ~30 | Biology & computer science | 10.7717 |
| Hindawi | 200+ | Broad sciences | 10.1155 |
Yes. Frontiers is a fully open-access publisher — every article in every Frontiers journal is published under Creative Commons CC BY licence, which means the PDF is freely downloadable by anyone without paywall or institutional login. Go to the article page on frontiersin.org and click the PDF button in the article viewer.
Frontiers publishes over 200 open-access peer-reviewed journals spanning neuroscience, psychology, medicine, public health, ecology, physics, chemistry, computer science, education, economics, and more. The most widely read are Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Genetics, and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Frontiers PDFs use a two-column journal layout with embedded figures, colour diagrams, and structured abstract boxes. E-readers reflow the PDF at a narrow viewport width, which breaks column order and makes figure captions misaligned. Converting to EPUB produces a single-column reflowable document that renders cleanly at any font size.
Yes, Frontiers publishes an HTML article view for desktop browsers. However, the HTML format is not available for offline reading on an e-reader — it requires an internet connection and a browser. Converting the PDF to EPUB gives you an offline, e-reader-optimised version with adjustable font, night mode, and device-level annotations.
Yes, Frontiers is a legitimate peer-reviewed open-access publisher founded in 2007 and headquartered in Switzerland. It is indexed in PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. However, it has received some criticism for its tiered peer review model. As with any publisher, evaluate individual articles on their evidence and methodology rather than the publisher alone.
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