Dear Colleagues, MDPI Annual Report 2015 is available to downloaded: http://img.mdpi.org/data/annual-report-mdpi-2015.pdf
According to our own statistical data (our scilit.net), MDPI is among the 20 largest journal publishers in 2015 as listed at our website http://sciforum.net/statistics/top-publishers-by-articles At our scilit.net, the DOI numbers registered or the papers published last month indicate that most recently in the month of August 2016, MDPI publishes more than Hindawi and PLoS and perhaps becomes the second largest OA publisher: #1 SpringerNature (BMC, SpringerOpen): 3556 #2 MDPI: 2028 #3 PLOS: 1928 #4 Hindawi: 1533 #5 Frontiers: 1204 You are welcome to visit our new headquarters office building we purchased. Our new address: St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel. This year we set up two offices in Europe: in Spain and Serbia, see: http://www.mdpi.com/about for more details. We are growing. Best regards, Shu-Kun -- Dr. Shu-Kun Lin President of MDPI Postal address: MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4020 Basel, Switzerland Office Location: St. Alban-Anlage 66, CH-4052 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office); Fax +41 61 302 8918 Mobile: +41 79 322 3379; Skype: mdpibasel-lin E-mail: l...@mdpi.com Company homepage: http://www.mdpi.com My homepage: http://www.mdpi.org/lin On 08.08.2016 14:01, Heather Morrison wrote: > Thank you, Dietrich Rordorf. > > To clarify, this is a limitation of the study, not an assumption. > That is, I only note the price per journal, but do not assume that > this is the only relevant variable to understanding the impact of the > APC. > > The APC study in brief is a longitudinal study of the APC list prices > of a large sample of journals whose publishers have been included in > DOAJ. There are other aspects of the APC that could be (or are being) > usefully addressed by other researchers, such as what payers are > actually paying, hybrid journals, quantity and qualities of articles > published (qualities could include length, language, formats, linking > within articles), etc. If anyone has time and energy to conduct > research in this area, there is plenty of work. > > best, > > Heather Morrison > > > -------- Original message -------- From: Dietrich Rordorf > <drord...@gmail.com> Date: 08-08-2016 1:48 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "Global > Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal@eprints.org> Subject: > Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016 > > Dear Dr. Morrison, > > I think that you make a very strong assumption of equal distribution > of journal sizes, which to me does not hold up to a reality check. > Because of this the "average" APC you compute is three to four times > lower compared to what authors/institutions actually pay to MDPI per > paper in average. > > To complete your history of APC changes, you may also want to > consider the following websites (or their archived counterparts, in > case they are taken offline): > > http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc-2011 (http://weblock.io/8E4P1NWIOG) > http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc-2012 (http://weblock.io/RO6RKQRHM6) > http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc-2013 (http://weblock.io/8E4P1NNIQ4) > http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc-2014 (http://weblock.io/YVLDG6ZHR1) > http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc-2015 (http://weblock.io/3YK2L6RUWD) > http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc-2016 (http://weblock.io/6Z4WKM6B2) > > Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf > > E-mail: drord...@gmail.com <mailto:drord...@gmail.com> Tel. +41 76 > 561 41 83 > > 2016-07-29 16:58 GMT+02:00 Heather Morrison > <heather.morri...@uottawa.ca <mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>>: > > A preliminary version of our MDPI APC longitudinal study is now > available: > https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2016/07/29/mdpi-apc-fdp-2011-2016/ > > > > > > <https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2016/07/29/mdpi-apc-fdp-2011-2016/> > > In brief > > MDPI is a new commercial publisher committed to the APC model, with a > not uncommon approach of free publication for new journals. Thanks to > Solomon and Björk, we have APC data for 25 journals for both 2011 and > 2016. The average APC for this group of journals increased from 624 > CHF in 2011 to 1,148 CHF in 2016, an average increase of 524 CHF or > an 84% price increase in contrast to a compound U.S. inflation rate > during this time frame of 8.7% (EU would have been lower). > >> From 2014 to 2015, MDPI journals either stayed at the same APC or > lowered their price. From 2015 to 2016, all journals either stayed > the same in price or increased in price, with the average increase > 18% or 60 CHF. > > As of March 2016, MDPI listed 155 journals on their website. Of > these, almost half (72) are <<free>>. The average APC is 359 CHF (662 > CHF when non-charging journals are excluded). > > This small case study illustrates the importance for APC payers to > take this model into account to predict future budget needs. MDPI’s > overall average APC today is a fraction of the average charged for a > sample of established journals. > > Note that for purposes of the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons > project, APC journals that are <<free for now>> are categorized as > APC journals with APC of $0, to avoid confusion with journals that > are not committed to the APC approach. > > Thanks to Tanoh Laurent Kakou for data analysis. > > best, > > -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de > l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa > http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html > <http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html> Sustaining the > Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ > <http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/> heather.morri...@uottawa.ca > <mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> > > > > _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org <mailto:GOAL@eprints.org> > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > <http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal> > > > > > _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
