[GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Heather Morrison <
Heather.Morrison at 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*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecules_%28journal%29> was established in
1996 in collaboration with Springer-Verlag (now Springer Science+Business
Media <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media>) in
order to document the chemical samples of the MDPI collection. Several
other journals were established by the MDPI Verein, including *Entropy*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28journal%29> (1999), the
*International
Journal of Molecular Sciences
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Molecular_Sciences>*
(2000), *Sensors* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensors_%28journal%29>
(2001), *Marine Drugs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Drugs>* (2003),
and the *International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.



-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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