[GOAL] MDPI tests Open Access Flat Rate with the Technical University of Dresden

[Facundo Santomé]

Dear all

MDPI is undertaking a pilot project with the Technical University of 
Dresden (TUD) and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) 
to help scholars publish Open Access at no cost. The program will last 
for 6 months, from 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018, and will allow 
corresponding authors affiliated with these institutions to publish 
their manuscripts free of charge in any MDPI journal.

When publishing Gold Open Access, authors are often asked to pay a fee, 
known as article processing charges (APC). Their work is made freely 
available for readers, bringing verifiably more visibility to their 
research. Many universities, such as the TUD, offer central funding to 
help authors publish Open Access, if certain criteria are fulfilled.

With Open Access standing as a model for the future, MDPI is trying to 
find new ways to support authors, one of which being the Access Flat 
Rate initiative with the TUD. This means that scientists who want to 
publish their work Open Access no longer need to deal with APCs. The TUD 
also understands the project as a contribution to the innovative 
development of Open Access services.

This is not the first time that MDPI has experimented with making Open 
Access publishing more attractive and easily accessible for authors. As 
of 2018, Humanities and Social Sciences authors can have the APCs of 
some of their articles covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding 
mechanism.

Continuously striving to expand and optimize its infrastructure, MDPI is 
convinced that an Open Access Flat Rate opens up a new dimension of 
publishing as well as opportunities for collaborations.

-- 
Facundo Santomé, M.Sc.
Communications Department

MDPI
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E-mail: facundo.santome at mdpi.com

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