Content Access and Indexing

Full-Text Download

If you wish to download the full-text of all papers published in MDPI journals in one batch, you can do so through the Secure File Transfer Protocol (sFTP). We offer TAR files with full-text XML, or full-text XML and PDF combined. New content is added twice a month, in the middle and end of each month.

We recommend that you use FileZilla or a similar (S)FTP software.

• Protocol: sFTP (note that regular FTP will not work)
• Host: sftp://download.mdpi.com
• Port: 9922
• User: mdpi_public_ftp
• Password: (request at [email protected])

Chemical Structures

We offer a SDF available for download (updated daily). It includes information on chemical structures published in some of our journals.

Indexing MDPI Content

MDPI collaborates with a number of indexing databases, platforms, and external companies that wish to index our content. Therefore, we offer a variety of ways to access our publications:

• Through depositing feeds: We offer customized electronic depositing feeds for indexing databases that partner with us. Typically, our feeds deliver content via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), in which we can deliver full-text content as well as metadata. The data is provided either in XML format, PDF format or both.
• Through Crossref: MDPI is a member of Crossref and all of our content is registered with DOIs. All newly published metadata is deposited to Crossref within approximately 24 hours after publication. Please visit Crossref to find further details on metadata retrieval.
• Through the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) interface: MDPI maintains an OAI-PMH interface for metadata sharing and harvesting, which can be accessed at http://oai.mdpi.com. We readily provide the metadata in Dublin Core format (oai_dc set) and in AGRIS format (oai_agris set) for a number of journals related to agronomy and agriculture.
• Through manual download from the search results page: You can export up to 1,000 articles per search result. To ease the process, first set the “Results per Page” to the maximum number of 200.
• Through page scrapping: We provide standardized metadata in Dublin Core, PRISM and Google Scholar formats that are embedded in the source code of each paper's abstract pages.

Please contact [email protected] for more information or if you would like to discuss the possibility of setting up a depositing feed or specialized OAI set with us.