MDPIMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

May, 2016Basel - Switzerland

Who Are We?• MDPI:

– Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute• What do we do?

– We are a publisher of open access, scientific, peer-reviewed journals:• We have over 150 electronic journals.• Open Access–all of our content is published under a

Creative Commons License (CC-BY). All of our journals are available online and are freely accessible to readers.

• We stand for Experience, Academic Community, Service and Quality.

• Publications are financed through Article Processing Charges (APCs), paid by authors and their institutions.

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MDPI History• The company was founded

in Basel, Switzerland in 1996 as Molecular Diversity Preservation International to collect and preserve rare chemical samples. To support the samples project, the journal Molecules was started that same year in collaboration with Springer Verlag.

• The company registered as the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute in 2010.

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MDPI History• 20 years since it was

founded, the company now has over 150 open access journals with additional offices in Barcelona, Spain and Beijing and Wuhan, China.

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Facts and Figures

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Facts and Figures

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MDPI Flagship Journals

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Publications by Subject Area

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Author Benefits• Open Access

– Authors retain copyright of their work while readers can freely access all articles

• Rapid Publication– A first decision is provided in under 32 days; papers are published 7-10 days after

acceptance

• Excellent Service– 99% of our authors would publish in an MDPI journal again*

• High Number of Readers and Frequent Citations– 84% of our content published in 2015 is indexed by Thomson Reuters’ Web of

Science– Average of 4.2 million page views and article downloads per month– 108,500 citations to MDPI articles in 2015

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Memberships• MDPI is a proud member of:

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MDPI Portfolio• As well as publishing, MDPI offers

numerous other services:

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MDPI Sciforum

• Sciforum (www.sciforum.net) is MDPI's online platform for open scholarly exchange and collaboration that allows academics to:– Host both online (electronic) and traditional

(physical) conferences– Organise discussion groups– Manage bibliographies

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MDPI Preprints

• Preprints is a free (not-for-profit) multidisciplinary preprint platform that makes scientific manuscripts from all fields of research immediately available at www.preprints.org. – The advanced search function of Preprints allows for a search by keywords

in the article or in the comments, author name, author affiliation, subject areas, disciplines, or date posted.   

– Readers can share preprints on social media and bookmark them on external services such as CiteULike, Mendeley, BibSonomy, Reddit, or Delicious.

– Preprints will permanently archive full text documents with specialist services that cater for long‐term preservation.

– All posted preprints are immediately citable by their assigned digital object identifier (DOI). Preprints encourages authors to post updates of their working manuscript as research progresses. From the first draft to the final document, every version is independently citable with its unique DOI.

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Institutional Membership Program

• Authors from affiliated institutes get 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APCs)

• As simple as possible-no hidden terms and conditions, no joining fee

• Over 120 memberships have been set up with various institutions since the program was established in 2014

• For more information: http://www.mdpi.com/about/memberships

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MDPI Books

• MDPI Books (http://www.mdpi.com/books) publishes high quality monographs (short or full-length), edited books, proceedings, doctoral theses and Special Issue books in full open access. Authors pay a Book Processing Charge (BPC) and are asked to accept the Copyright Agreement. MDPI Books are published under Creative Commons licenses (CC BY). – Open Access: Scholarly work is accessible worldwide without any restrictions: in

comparison with traditional book printing, open access publications save costs, space and time.

– High quality: MDPI ensures a thorough peer-review for all published items.– Rapid publication: MDPI offers a fast but precise editorial and publication procedure.– Print on Demand: Books are available for purchase at any time and reduction of costs

by a modern print-on-demand procedure.– Different formats: Authors benefit from our hybrid publishing service, which offers the

possibility to not only receive a digital format, but also a printed version of your work.– High visibility: fast and wide dissemination: global network (including the USA,

Europe, and Australia) and well-known channel partners (e.g., Amazon); registration in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).

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