[GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

Tue Sep 13 11:25:23 BST 2016

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
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> On Sep 13, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin <lin at 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
> 
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> Shu-Kun
> 
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> 
>> 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
>> <drordorf at gmail.com> Date: 08-08-2016 1:48 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "Global
>> Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at 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: drordorf at gmail.com <mailto:drordorf at gmail.com> Tel. +41 76
>> 561 41 83
>> 
>> 2016-07-29 16:58 GMT+02:00 Heather Morrison
>> <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca <mailto:Heather.Morrison at 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.Morrison at uottawa.ca
>> <mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
>> 
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