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 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
