Dietrich RordorfBasel, 16 April 2014
Academic Publishing
1) Short intro to academic publishing (Dietrich)
2) Peer-review and research ethics (Martyn)
3) Trasition from research to publishing (Franck)
4) Editorial roles within a journal (Dietrich)
5) Session with questions
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Program Today Morning
Our mission is to increase open scientificexchange through the means of scholarlyopen access journals and conferences.
Scholarly Communication
4Figure taken from http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/subject-guides/rem
• Peer-reviewed, formal publication• Presenting latest research results relating to an
academic discipline• Scholars submit their work to the scrutinity of
other scientists• Validation, certification & attribution• Journals are the «minutes of science»*
* Jan Velterop. Keeping the minutes of science. In Proceedings of the second ELVIRA conference, May 1995, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes; ASLIB, 1995, pp 11-17.
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Research Journal
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The First Academic Journals
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• Molecules• First MDPI journal• Established in 1996• Volume 1 co-published with Springer-Verlag• Published by MDPI starting Volume 2 (1997)• Free to access in 1996• Later «open access»
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MDPI Journals
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MDPI Journals
• Online
• Free to read
• Free to re-use, given proper attribution
• Open access movement arose out of discontent:o Increasing subscription costs per journal
o More and more journals to subscribe
o Scholars having decreasing access to scientific literature
o ...in a world where things could be easily available online...
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Open Access
• 146 journals(22 planned, 2 published by MDPI & owned by a society)
• 200 in-house staff• 10’000+ papers per year• 100’000+ authors published• 7’000 academic editors
more at www.mdpi.com...
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MDPI Now
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Thanks!
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