Frontiers in Zoology is a peer-reviewed online scientific journal which deals in the field of "all aspects of animal life". In 1999 it was the first open access journal focussing on zoology. It is published online only. The Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft initiated and supports its publishing by BioMed Central. The journal publishes the following article types: research articles, book reviews, commentaries, debate articles, hypotheses, methodology articles, reviews and short reports under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.