Committed to Open Access | MDPI Blog

"MDPI is committed to Open Access of all our published research as a tool to disseminate and advance knowledge. We have recently undertaken to support several initiatives to clarify, strength and maintain the use of Open Access publication. OASPA Principles for the Attribution of Scholarly Works Hand-in-hand with making research available is providing recognition to the originators of new scholarly ideas and findings. We support the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s (OASPA) new guidelines on attribution ... Creative Commons copyright licenses offer a clear and flexible approach to Open Access in many fields, including academic publishing. All MDPI published articles are available under a CC-BY license, ensuring both free use and credit to the authors. STM have recently announced an alternative set of Open Access copyright licenses which we, along a number of other organizations, believe are unnecessary and will lead to confusion. We do not believe, as STM claim, that their licences are complementary to what Creative Commons offers, and we call on STM to withdraw their licenses and work together with Creative Commons ..."