5th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing COASP Riga 20 September 2013 Meet OASPAs Members MDPI History Samples Preservation Dr Shu Kun Lin Organic Chemist Working at CibaGeigy in Basel Switzerland ID: 425728
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Dietrich Rordorf
5th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP)Riga, 20 September 2013
Meet OASPA’s
Members – MDPISlide2
History – Samples Preservation
Dr.
Shu
-Kun Lin, Organic Chemist
Working at Ciba-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland
A senior researcher retired: chemicalsamples were trashedMDPI founded in 1996: Molecular DiversityPreservation International (MDPI)Collecting & preserving of chemical research samplesRedistribution of small amounts of samples against a fee
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* Image credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_bottle_with_ground_glass_plug.jpgSlide3
First Journal –
MoleculesFounded in the same year
Journal on synthetic organic chemistry
Founded in support of the chemical preservation project
Available for free on the Internet in 1996
Collecting research samples from the authorsUnique combination of material and informationCo-published with Springer-Verlag in first year3Slide4
2004
1,500
Public Health, Env. Sci.
First Group of MDPI Journals (1997–2004)
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Journal Year Published Subject
Papers
1996
5,400
Organic Chemistry
1999
850
Thermodynamics
2000
3,900
Molecular Science, Biochem.
2001
4,500
Engineering, Phys., Chem.
2003
900
Medicinal ChemistrySlide5
MDPI AG
Professional open access publisherRegistered in Basel, Switzerland in May 2010
Journal operations transferred by mid 2010
MDPI now stands for
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Offices in Basel, Beijing and Wuhan5Slide6
29’000
articles published so far50% average yearly growth rate since 2005110 active journal titles, 20 in planning for 2013–2014
18
journals covered by Web of Science
16 SCIE, 1 SCIE & SSCI, 1 A&HCI)
5314 papers in 2012 in Web of Science (75%)15 journals with Impact Factors for 20123.978 highest Impact Factor (IF) for Marine Drugs8 journals IF > 2.0
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MDPI OutreachSlide7
Key Editorial Figures 2012 – 2013
14’200 manuscript submissions in 2012
3’145
manuscript submissions in Q2
2012
4’507 manuscript submissions in Q2 201343% growth in submissions YoY7’049 papers published in 20121’648
papers in Q2
2012
2’149
papers in Q2
2013
30%
growth in publications
YoY
51%
rejection rate in
2012
, slightly higher for 2013
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MDPI Open Access Policy
Up to 2008Free online access since 1996
Relying on donations until mid 2006
Content copyrighted by MDPI until early 2008
Since 2008
Creative Commons By Attribution v3.0 (CC-BY)Back issues also put under CC-BY in 2008Publishing fees since 2006Pure Open Access: every single publication is openly available8Slide9
Publishing Fees
Range from 0 CHF (new journals) to 1’800 CHF (top journals)
Average cost to authors per paper in 2013: 900 CHF
About 30% of papers published free or charge
Discounts available via Institutional Membership (since Fall 2013)
www.mdpi.com/about/membershipsPlanning for “postpay” memberships for universities and funders9Slide10
Thank you.
www.mdpi.comrordorf@mdpi.com