MDPI Open and non-Open Access
Open Access (free subscription for readers) and non-Open Access (free publication for authors)
Open Access publishing is supported by authors and their institutes. Open Access publication fees are 500 EUR / 600 USD / 778 CHF per paper (compare to Springer's Open Access publishing fees of 3,000 USD, see http://www.springeronline.com/openchoice) regardless of the length of the paper, because we wish to encourage publication of long papers with complete results and full experimental or computational details. Open Access papers are typically published online more rapidly. They have higher publicity because they are free to read and the full text is searchable on the Internet and they are more quickly and easily added into many indexing databases. The instructions for transfer of donated funds are at the http://www.mdpi.org/transfer.htm website.
Waiver of publication fees: In order to encourage publication of high quality papers, we will continue to waive publication fees with Open Access for those papers of high quality recommended by referees or editors and for papers from those who have published high impact factor papers in our journals.
Non-Open Access publishing is free of charge for authors. They have an absolute link leading to a blocked (password protected) folder on the mdpi.org server. Thus, we will provide those authors who do not wish to support Open Access the choice of doing so, knowing that their papers will only be available to paid subscribers
[http://www.mdpi.org/subs.htm], who will continue to have full access. If there are 10 times of pay-per-view for a non-Open Access paper, it will become Open Access.
Recently we published an editorial "Open Access and Author's Open Choice".
[http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/html/10060583.htm]
Open Access publishing is supported by authors and their institutes. Open Access publication fees are 500 EUR / 600 USD / 778 CHF per paper (compare to Springer's Open Access publishing fees of 3,000 USD, see http://www.springeronline.com/openchoice) regardless of the length of the paper, because we wish to encourage publication of long papers with complete results and full experimental or computational details. Open Access papers are typically published online more rapidly. They have higher publicity because they are free to read and the full text is searchable on the Internet and they are more quickly and easily added into many indexing databases. The instructions for transfer of donated funds are at the http://www.mdpi.org/transfer.htm website.
Waiver of publication fees: In order to encourage publication of high quality papers, we will continue to waive publication fees with Open Access for those papers of high quality recommended by referees or editors and for papers from those who have published high impact factor papers in our journals.
Non-Open Access publishing is free of charge for authors. They have an absolute link leading to a blocked (password protected) folder on the mdpi.org server. Thus, we will provide those authors who do not wish to support Open Access the choice of doing so, knowing that their papers will only be available to paid subscribers
[http://www.mdpi.org/subs.htm], who will continue to have full access. If there are 10 times of pay-per-view for a non-Open Access paper, it will become Open Access.
Recently we published an editorial "Open Access and Author's Open Choice".
[http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/html/10060583.htm]
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