What is MDPI? MDPI is the abbreviation for Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

What does MDPI publish? MDPI publishes journals in many fields of the sciences and social sciences.

How does the UA-MDPI agreement benefit authors? MDPI offers a 10% discount for a journal article processing charge (APC).

Which journals are covered by the agreement? All MDPI journals are covered.

Who is eligible? The author or any one of the co-authors for the article must be affiliated with the University of Arkansas Fayetteville; the corresponding author may be a faculty member, staff member, student, or postdoc. They should use their uark.edu email address.

Are there any requirements or restrictions? The authors must assign the article a Creative Commons license. The only acceptable license is CC-BY. For more information about Creative Commons licenses, visit the Creative Commons Licenses Library Guide.

How can an author apply? The author affiliated with the University of Arkansas Fayetteville should submit the article for peer review through the MDPI submission system as they usually would and follow the instructions provided. They will have the opportunity to apply the discount after the article has been accepted for publication.

Additional tips: The author affiliated with the University of Arkansas Fayetteville should use their uark.edu email address when submitting the article for review.

For additional information, please visit the MDPI Article Processing Charge Information page.