{"id":382,"date":"2017-01-31T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/?p=382"},"modified":"2017-01-31T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:47:16","slug":"stellenbosch-university-joins-mdpi-multidisciplinary-digital-publishing-institute-institutional-membership-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/2017\/01\/31\/stellenbosch-university-joins-mdpi-multidisciplinary-digital-publishing-institute-institutional-membership-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellenbosch University joins MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) Institutional Membership Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stellenbosch University has joined the Institutional Membership Programme of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/about\">MDPI<\/a> (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), an academic open-access publisher.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the membership programme, corresponding authors associated with the University will receive a 10% discount on MDPI\u2019s Article Processing Charges.<\/p>\n<p>SU authors who publish with MDPI will be invoiced directly. Once the invoice has been paid, the author may apply for a refund from the Open Access Publication Fund, in agreement with the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.sun.ac.za\/en-za\/Research\/oa\/Pages\/su-oafund.aspx\">policy<\/a> of the Fund.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the refund will not be more than 50% of the APCs for SU-authors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Naomi Visser, E-resources librarian at <a href=\"mailto:nrv@sun.ac.za\">nrv@sun.ac.za<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.sun.ac.za%2Fsunscholar%2F2017%2F01%2F31%2Fstellenbosch-university-joins-mdpi-multidisciplinary-digital-publishing-institute-institutional-membership-programme%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellenbosch University has joined the Institutional Membership Programme of MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), an academic open-access publisher. In terms of the membership programme, corresponding authors associated with the University will receive a 10% discount on MDPI\u2019s Article Processing Charges. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/2017\/01\/31\/stellenbosch-university-joins-mdpi-multidisciplinary-digital-publishing-institute-institutional-membership-programme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/sunscholar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}