MDPI, founded in 1996 in Basel, Switzerland, is a multidisciplinary open access publisher offering over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journals. It provides a range of services including rapid publication, copyright retention for authors, and free access for readers, funded by article processing charges. The institute also hosts platforms for scholarly exchange and preprint services to enhance research visibility and collaboration.

1. MDPI
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
May, 2016
Basel - Switzerland

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Facts and Figures
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6. Facts and Figures
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7. MDPI Flagship Journals
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8. Publications by Subject Area
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9. 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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10. Memberships
• MDPI is a proud member of:
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11. MDPI Portfolio
• As well as publishing, MDPI offers
numerous other services:
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Stay Connected
• @MDPIOpenAccess
• https://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishing
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpi
• https://plus.google.com/+MdpiOA/about
• MDPI AG – Youtube
• www.mdpi.com
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17. Academic Open Access Publishing since 1996
www.mdpi.com
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