Announcements
2 October 2018
MDPI Welcomes Plan S
Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.
We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.
30 August 2018
MDPI establishes Open Access agreement with Qatar National Library
We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.
Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.
Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".
For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at openaccess@qnl.qa.
27 July 2018
Meet us at UDM 2018 in Palermo, Italy, 23–26 September 2018
31 May 2018
2017 CiteScore™ Metrics Released
30 April 2018
Winners of the First MDPI Writing Prize
23 March 2018
Check for Updates: A New Function in the Article PDF Version
At MDPI, we always want to keep you up to date. Even for already published articles, some corrections or minor changes may occur. To prevent you from missing any updates, from now on you will be able to access the latest version of any manuscript by clicking on the “check for updates” logo that you can find in the PDF file, even if you have saved the file on your computer.
13 March 2018
MDPI Becoming a Member of UKSG
We are proud to announce that MDPI is now a member of UKSG, the UK´s largest scholarly communications community. Through UKSG, different stakeholders share their knowledge and experience in order to improve the knowledge and information environment for researchers. UKSG´s members include universities, publishers, content providers, intermediaries, and other similar organisations. Members participate in discussions and events on issues around scholarly communications.
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a flagship initiative from the UKSG and one of the most stimulating events in the scholarly communications calendar. It is held annually and attracts a large number of delegates. More information is available at https://www.uksg.org/events/annualconference
MDPI is delighted to be a part of this active community and we look forward to making our own contribution. We will continue to support organisations and initiatives that boost collaboration and vision within scholarly communication.
More information about UKSG can be found at https://www.uksg.org/. The full membership list is available at: https://www.uksg.org/members.
1 February 2018
MDPI Signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
The DORA initiative addresses the need for advanced approaches in the evaluation and measurement of the quality of scientific research outputs. It is a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines. MDPI proudly joins a list of more than 400 organizations around the world which support DORA’s recommendations for improving the way the quality of research results is evaluated.
More info can be found at http://www.ascb.org/dora/
17 January 2018
Infrastructures Affiliated to iSMARTi
We are delighted to announce that Infrastructures is affiliated to the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures (iSMARTi). iSMARTi was established in 2004 as a culmination of an internationally concerted effort among researchers and practitioners actively engaged in maintaining and rehabilitating transportation infrastructures.
Dr. Hosin "David" Lee, the President of iSMARTi, says he is “excited about the collaboration between iSMARTi and Infrastructures journal because it will be mutually beneficial.” Dr. Pedro Arias-Sánchez, the Editor-in-Chief of Infrastructures also states that “iSMARTi is working to respond to key problems for the development of societies and countries; Infrastructures journal would like to contribute to the dissemination of this work. It is a good opportunity for collaboration between Infrastructures and iSMARTi that we should not miss.”
The main objective of iSMARTi is to promote the exchange of advanced knowledge and practical experiences among infrastructure engineering and management professionals. This society is dedicated to the theme of maintenance and rehabilitation of infrastructure assets of the transport system including corridors, airports, roads, pavements, tunnels and bridges, railroads, ports, dockland, utilities, and multimodal facilities. The society will support various different periodic events (conferences, workshops, short courses, technology synthesis reports), which will have the objective of promoting the exchange of know-how between the professionals involved in each of those infrastructure assets. For more information, please visit www.ismarti.org.
Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811, www.mdpi.com/journal/infrastructures) is an international scientific open access journal covering all aspects of infrastructure engineering published quarterly online by MDPI. It provides rapid publication, free for readers and free publication for well-prepared manuscripts submitted in 2018. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 31.5 days after submission, and acceptance to publication is undertaken in 6 days.
19 December 2017
Announcing the MDPI English Writing Prize
