Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-09-13 Thread Dirk Pieper 
Dear colleagues,

to complete the picture, here are some data about the APC expenditures to MPDI 
from the institutions, which contribute to the Open APC dataset:

http://treemaps.intact-project.org/apcdata/openapc/#publisher/MDPI%20AG/

Best,

Dirk







Am 13.09.16 13:03 schrieb Éric Archambault  
<eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com>:
> 
> Shy-Kun
> 
> Congratulations for your progress. I admire your resolve. Would be nice to 
> meet-up when I'll happen to be around, or should you come to Montreal. 
> 
> Cordially
> 
> Eric
> 
> Eric Archambault
> 1science.com
> Science-Metrix.com
> +1-514-495-6505 x111
> 
> > On Sep 13, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin <l...@mdpi.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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)
> >>

Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-09-13 Thread BURNHILL Peter 
That is an impressive report of progress Shu-Kun


I was also pleased to read that you "renewed our membership with CLOCKS to 
ensure long-term preservation of the content published in (y)our journals".


It is important that all OA journals do likewise with a 'long-term keeper of 
digital content'.


You can confirm what volumes and issues are being kept safe by entering MDPI in 
the search box of the Keepers Registry at  http://thekeepers.org

The Keepers Registry: Search<http://thekeepers.org/>
thekeepers.org
The following organisations are the Keepers of digital content, working on your 
behalf to ensure long-term access to the scholarly and cultural record.

Are your journals also archived by the Swiss National Library?


Kind regards


Peter




Peter Burnhill

ISG Director of Business and Innovation

& Interim Director EDINA

University of Edinburgh


Desk: +44 (0) 131 650 3301

Mobile: +44 (0) 774 0763 119



From: goal-boun...@eprints.org <goal-boun...@eprints.org> on behalf of Dr. 
Shu-Kun Lin <l...@mdpi.com>
Sent: 13 September 2016 04:20
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

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 prelimi

Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-09-13 Thread Dr. Shu-Kun Lin 
We are sponsoring hundreds of scholarly/academic conferences now.
We will add the exact number of conferences we are sponsoring in our
next annual report.

On 13.09.2016 05:20, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin wrote:
> 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 journ

Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-09-13 Thread Éric Archambault 
Shy-Kun

Congratulations for your progress. I admire your resolve. Would be nice to 
meet-up when I'll happen to be around, or should you come to Montreal. 

Cordially

Eric

Eric Archambault
1science.com
Science-Metrix.com
+1-514-495-6505 x111

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin <l...@mdpi.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-09-12 Thread Dr. Shu-Kun Lin 
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 <>. The average APC is 359 CHF (662
> CHF when non-charging journa

Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-08-08 Thread Heather Morrison 
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/

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 <>. 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 <> 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,

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Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
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Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-08-07 Thread Dietrich Rordorf 
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
Tel. +41 76 561 41 83

2016-07-29 16:58 GMT+02:00 Heather Morrison :

> A preliminary version of our MDPI APC longitudinal study is now available:
> 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 <>. 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 <> 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
> Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
> heather.morri...@uottawa.ca
>
>
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Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

2016-07-29 Thread Peter Murray-Rust 
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:

> A preliminary version of our MDPI APC longitudinal study is now available:
> https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2016/07/29/mdpi-apc-fdp-2011-2016/
>
>
> It is useful to get these prices. (I comment that some of the earlier
percentages referred to ratios rather than changes; the latter is more
normal).


> MDPI is a new commercial publisher committed to the APC model, with a not
> uncommon approach of free publication for new journals.


For the record a number of the journals have been established for some time
- Molecules is 20 years old. From Wikipedia:

>>The journal *Molecules*
 was established in
1996 in collaboration with Springer-Verlag (now Springer Science+Business
Media ) in
order to document the chemical samples of the MDPI collection. Several
other journals were established by the MDPI Verein, including *Entropy*
 (1999), the
*International
Journal of Molecular Sciences
*
(2000), *Sensors* 
(2001), *Marine Drugs * (2003),
and the *International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
*
(2004). The publisher MDPI AG was spun off from MDPI Verein in 2010.

The use of the same acronym for two different organizations may confuse
some people.



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University of Cambridge
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