From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date:, 27 Apr 2015 16:39:18 +0100

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the Multidisciplinary Digital
Publishing Institute, or more usually MDPI, is an open access
publisher that has had a challenging few years. It has been charged
with excessively spamming researchers in order to maximise APC
revenue, it has been accused of publishing pseudoscience, and it has
been criticised for publishing papers of very poor quality. This has
occasionally led to editorial board resignations.

The criticism came to a head in February last year, when University of
Colorado (Denver) librarian Jeffrey Beall added MDPI to his
controversial list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory
scholarly open-access publishers”.

Today I have published a Q&A with MDPI, which can be read here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-open-access-interviews-publisher.html

Richard Poynder