Presentation to a group of students from Utrecht.

1. Dietrich Rordorf
Basel, 16 April 2014
Academic Publishing

2. 1) Short intro to academic publishing (Dietrich)
2) Peer-review and research ethics (Martyn)
3) Trasition from research to publishing (Franck)
4) Editorial roles within a journal (Dietrich)
5) Session with questions
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 Program Today Morning

3. Our mission is to increase open scientific
exchange through the means of scholarly
open access journals and conferences.

4.  Scholarly Communication
4Figure taken from http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/subject-guides/rem

5. • Peer-reviewed, formal publication
• Presenting latest research results relating to an
academic discipline
• Scholars submit their work to the scrutinity of
other scientists
• Validation, certification & attribution
• Journals are the «minutes of science»*
* Jan Velterop. Keeping the minutes of science. In Proceedings of the second ELVIRA
conference, May 1995, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes; ASLIB, 1995, pp 11-17.
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 Research Journal

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 The First Academic Journals
Figures taken from http://wikimedia.org

7. • Molecules
• First MDPI journal
• Established in 1996
• Volume 1 co-published with Springer-Verlag
• Published by MDPI starting Volume 2 (1997)
• Free to access in 1996
• Later «open access»
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 MDPI Journals

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 MDPI Journals

9. • Online
• Free to read
• Free to re-use, given proper attribution
• Open access movement arose out of discontent:
o Increasing subscription costs per journal
o More and more journals to subscribe
o Scholars having decreasing access to scientific literature
o ...in a world where things could be easily available online...
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 Open Access

10. • 146 journals
(22 planned, 2 published by MDPI & owned by a society)
• 200 in-house staff
• 10’000+ papers per year
• 100’000+ authors published
• 7’000 academic editors
more at www.mdpi.com...
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 MDPI Now

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Thanks!
Dietrich Rordorf
E-mail: rordorf@mdpi.com
MDPI AG
Klybeckstrasse 64
CH-4057 Basel
Switzerland