Open
Access (free subscription for readers) Advantages and the Fees
- Much higher citation impact: Open Access papers are much more
frequently cited [1,2]. 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.
- Much less costly: Open Access publishing is supported by authors
and their institutes and is much less costly. Open Access publication
fees* we collect are
800
CHF (approximately 500 EUR)
per paper for well-written papers and
1050 CHF per paper for
those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or
English
corrections.
* For Sensors,
the Open Access publishing fees are 1050
CHF per paper for well-written papers and 1300 CHF per paper for
those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or
English
corrections, for papers submitted
since 1
January 2008.
(Compare to much higher fees of other nonprofit publishing organization
such as PLoS [3,4] or to Springer's Open Access publishing fees of
3,000 USD [5,6]) 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 [7]. The instructions for
transfer of fees or donated funds are at the http://www.mdpi.org/transfer.htm
website.
- Open Access papers are
typically published online
more
rapidly [8].
- Waiver of publication fees:
We stopped this starting in January
2008.
Links
and Notes
- Open Access citation impact advantage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Authors_and_researchers.
For example, a standard research paper
"Shutalev, A.D.; Kishko, E.A.; Sivova, N.V.; Kuznetsov, A.Y.
Molecules 1998, 3, 100-106"
has been cited 51 times, the highest number among all the
papers published so far by the same author.
- Lin, S. -K. Editorial: Non-Open Access and Its Adverse Impact on
Molecules. Molecules 2007, 12, 1436-1437 (PDF format
16 K; HTML
format, raw data as Excel files available at the end of the HTML
file).
- According
to a recent report (Rovner,
S. Evolving
Access. Chem. Eng. News 3
July 2006, 84 (27),
8)
the nonprofit Open Access publishing
organization PLoS
has just increased its author fees from $1500 USD
per
article to 2000−2500
USD to better reflect the cost of
publication, in addition to other revenue (grants, institutional
memberships,
and advertisement).
- MDPI also plans to increase the amount of Open Access publishing
fees to an adequate level effective 1 January 2008.
- See: http://www.springeronline.com/openchoice
- The traditional subscription-based publishing is even more
expensive. The scientific journal subscription has a standard price of
1 USD per page (see the subscription price for journals published by
Elsevier or Springer). For example, if a journal has a worldwide
circulation of 5,000 copies, for an article of 10 pages, the other
parties (readers, libraries, etc.) pay the publishing company 50,000
USD. That is why a single journal e.g., Tetrahedron or Tetrahedron Letters of Elsevier,
can bring tens of millions of USD revenue for the publishing house.
Elsevier and Springer both started to provide author paid immediate
Open Access and the cost of 3,000 USD per paper has been charged to
authors [2]. This amount looks very high, yet this Open Access service
should be encouraged because Open Access publishing is much less costly
for other parties to pay the publishing service.
- Recently a research paper of 23 pages has been published: http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/papers/11110867.pdf.
- Well written papers have been peer reviewed and published in less
than two weeks from manuscript submission, see the example: http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/papers/11040212.pdf.