Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP)

MDPI offers institutions and consortia the opportunity to join over 900 institutions on our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), which provides transparency to the MDPI submission process, access to a unique institutional dashboard environment, and a discount on Article Processing Charges (APC) for affiliated researchers.

With flexible agreement models that offer a variety of payment workflows, MDPI can cater to individual institutional needs in order to help simplify administrative processes.

We support institutions to abide by Plan S and national mandates, whilst making it easy for authors to publish in fully compliant (CC-BY) Open Access journals.

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Partner Benefits

• Participating institutions will be granted access to a dedicatedInstitutional Dashboard on our submission system, ‘Susy’, which allows real-time visibility over articles that have been submitted by their researchers to MDPI journals. It also provides detailed article metadata, up-to-date APC information, downloadable reports, and information about editorial engagement.
• Affiliated researchers of participating universities receive a discount on APCs across all MDPI journals. This can be combined with other available discounts (e.g., reviewer vouchers).
• Researchers can also benefit from a10% discount on the Book Processing Charges (BPCs) forMDPI Books and a15% discount onLanguage Editing Services.
• Institutions can receive automated Institutional Repository deposits of papers from affiliated authors using the SWORD 1.3 protocol.
• A direct point of contact at MDPI for questions and support.

Agreement Models

Flat fee agreement: the institution can pay a one-time yearly fee for their Corresponding Authors to publish an unlimited number of articles in MDPI journals.

Discount agreement: Authors affiliated with participating universities receive an IOAP discount on the APC for any paper published in a MDPI journal at no charge to the institution.

Flexible Workflows

• Non-central workflow: the authors will benefit from the IOAP discount and will be invoiced directly.
• Central workflow: The institution can approve manuscript invoices for centralised payment. To assist with reducing the administrative burden, the invoicing process can be adjusted to meet the needs of each member institution. Three different standard central invoicing options are available: Direct; Collective (Monthly/Quarterly); and Prepayment.

List of Participants (911)

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