# llms.txt
# AI & Open Science Usage Policy for mdpi.com
# Organization: MDPI AG
# Website: https://www.mdpi.com
# Last updated: 2026-02-16

User-Agent: *

Policy-Version: 2.0
Policy-Type: Open-Science / Pro-AI

# Mission Statement
MDPI supports open science, open access publishing, and responsible artificial intelligence.
Content published under Creative Commons licenses is intended to be shared, reused,
mined, and analyzed by machine learning and AI systems in ways that
advance research, education, and innovation worldwide.

# Permitted AI Uses
Allow:
  - Full-text ingestion of all Open Access articles
  - Training and fine-tuning of machine learning and foundation models
  - Text and data mining (TDM)
  - Knowledge extraction and semantic indexing
  - Citation analysis and metadata aggregation
  - Educational and research dataset construction
  - Commercial AI use, where license terms are respected

# Licensing Requirements
Conditions:
  - Respect the specific Creative Commons license attached to each article
  - Preserve attribution, citation, and DOI references
  - Indicate if content has been modified or transformed
  - Do not remove author names or license statements

# Transparency & Responsible AI
If MDPI content is used in AI training:
  - Public documentation of MDPI as a training data source is encouraged
  - License terms must be retained in derivative datasets
  - Models should not imply MDPI endorsement unless formally authorized
  - Systems should avoid hallucinated citations attributed to MDPI journals

# Technical Access
Crawl-Delay: 2
Sitemap: https://www.mdpi.com/sitemap.xml
OAI-PMH: https://oai.mdpi.com/

# Fair Use & Infrastructure Protection
While AI use is encouraged, automated systems must:
  - Avoid excessive request rates that impact site stability
  - Use caching when possible
  - Prefer structured endpoints (OAI-PMH, APIs) for bulk access

# Community Collaboration
MDPI welcomes collaboration with AI developers, research institutions,
and open datasets initiatives to promote responsible open science.

Contact: support@mdpi.com

# Policy Updates
This policy may evolve alongside advances in open science and AI governance.