{"id":1499,"date":"2013-04-25T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T08:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T08:33:04","slug":"mdpi-another-oa-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2013\/04\/25\/mdpi-another-oa-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"MDPI – another OA publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently was alerted to the existence of an Open Access (OA) publisher that I had not heard of before: \u00a0MDPI<\/a>. Their name\u00a0stands for “Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute” and they are based in Switzerland. They publish more than 70 journals \u00a0and all journals are members of the\u00a0Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE<\/a>). They started in 1996 and expanded slowly but since 2009 have launched quite a few new titles. The oldest title has published more than 5,000 articles, and 18 of their titles have published more than 200 articles.<\/p>\n

MDPI publishes on quite a range of subjects – sampling the title list <\/a>I find aerospace,\u00a0agriculture, antibodies, crystals, entropy, genes, environment, molecular sciences, materials, remote sensing, and viruses. They have quite a few biomedical titles, though many of these are new and hence small at present.<\/p>\n

Their fees<\/a> vary quite a bit. Articles in new journals are published free of charge, but otherwise the fees range from CHF 300 to CHF 1800.<\/p>\n

Are they a reputable publisher? \u00a0The answer seems to be ‘yes’<\/a>, though perhaps their marketing can be overzealous. MDPI is a member of OASPA<\/a>, which suggests strongly that they are reputable. Their journals are not high impact journals maybe but it seems they are serious publishers wanting to serve science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently was alerted to the existence of an Open Access (OA) publisher that I had not heard of before: \u00a0MDPI. Their name\u00a0stands for “Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute” and they are based in Switzerland. They publish more than 70 journals … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}