Meet OASPAs Members MDPI Dietrich Rordorf 5 th

Meet OASPA’s Members – MDPI Dietrich Rordorf 5 th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) Riga, 20 September 2013

v History – Samples Preservation • Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, Organic Chemist • Working at Ciba-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland • A senior researcher retired: chemical samples were trashed • MDPI founded in 1996: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) • Collecting & preserving of chemical research samples • Redistribution of small amounts of samples against a fee * Image credit: http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File: Dark_bottle_with_ground_glass_plug. jpg 2

v First Journal – Molecules • Founded 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 authors • Unique combination of material and information • Co-published with Springer-Verlag in first year 3

v First Group of MDPI Journals (1997– 2004) Journal Year Published Papers Subject 1996 5, 400 Organic Chemistry 2001 4, 500 Engineering, Phys. , Chem. 2000 3, 900 Molecular Science, Biochem. 2004 1, 500 Public Health, Env. Sci. 1999 850 Thermodynamics 2003 900 Medicinal Chemistry 4

v MDPI AG • Professional open access publisher • Registered 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 Wuhan 5

v MDPI Outreach • 29’ 000 articles published so far • 50% average yearly growth rate since 2005 • 110 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 2012 • 3. 978 highest Impact Factor (IF) for Marine Drugs – 8 journals IF > 2. 0 6

v Key Editorial Figures 2012 – 2013 • 14’ 200 manuscript submissions in 2012 – 3’ 145 manuscript submissions in Q 2 2012 – 4’ 507 manuscript submissions in Q 2 2013 – 43% growth in submissions Yo. Y • 7’ 049 papers published in 2012 – 1’ 648 papers in Q 2 2012 – 2’ 149 papers in Q 2 2013 – 30% growth in publications Yo. Y • 51% rejection rate in 2012, slightly higher for 2013 7

v MDPI Open Access Policy Up to 2008 • Free online access since 1996 • Relying on donations until mid 2006 • Content copyrighted by MDPI until early 2008 Since 2008 • Creative Commons By Attribution v 3. 0 (CC-BY) • Back issues also put under CC-BY in 2008 • Publishing fees since 2006 • Pure Open Access: every single publication is openly available 8

v 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/memberships • Planning for “postpay” memberships for universities and funders 9

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