Author Archives: Dietrich Rordorf
Read How You Want
Two and a half months ago, we announced an update to our online reader that allows users to easily read articles from MDPI journals on mobile devices. We have now released a further update to our article reader to improve readability on desktop computers and tablets.
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Reading a paper ‘on the go’ has just become easier with our new mobile reader. Whenever you open the HTML full-text from a paper hosted on mdpi.com with your smartphone or tablet computer, you will now be taken to our new mobile reader.
More InfoSciforum – A Look Back at 2014
As the year comes to an end, it is time to review the progress of Sciforum throughout 2014. We have held 6 electronic conferences totaling 363 published proceedings papers and participated by several thousands scholars in 2014. Highlights of the year were the 18th edition of the International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry (ECSOC), […]
More InfoIntroducing „Feature Highlights“ Section to the MDPI Blog
We are introducing this new section „Feature Highlights“ to the MDPI blog. We will periodically announce new features that we add to our websites, or new services that we offer to the scholarly community through this new channel.
More InfoBig Steps Forward for Sciforum—The Open Scientific and Scholarly Forum
MDPI is home to more than a hundred open access journals, including our flagship journals Molecules, Sensors and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. But did you know that MDPI is one of the pioneers in online conferences for scientists and scholars?
More InfoUpdated – Viruses Resources on Ebola Virus and other Filoviruses
Updated on 25 March 2015 Given the current dramatic evolution of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, Dr. Jens H. Kuhn from the NIH/NIAID/IRF-Frederick has kindly compiled the following list of resources related to the Ebola virus and other filoviruses that were published in the journal Viruses and are hence openly available. […]
More InfoCitation Tracking and (Some) Citation Metrics
We have introduced a few handy citation features for our publication platform at www.mdpi.com, and used this to calculate some basic citation metrics.
More InfoChallenges and Contests are Appealing!
Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547) is a unique open access journal that publishes ideas for research projects (research proposals), research plans, perspectives or ideas for solving grand challenges, descriptions of tested and untested prototypes and other similar material. Its content is typically not publishable in a research journal, but has wider scholarly or scientific relevance and therefore […]
More InfoConference Exhibitions and Sponsorships in 2014
MDPI journals and staff will be present and/or sponsor several academic events in 2014. Here is a current selection (we will update this list from time to time to include more). If you are organizing a conference related to a topic covered by one of our journals, please suggest your event for our consideration at […]
More InfoRecent Updates to our Manuscript Submission and Publishing Systems
Here a short summary of a few recent changes to our submission and publishing systems.
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