MDPI New York Editors Salon

On 24 April 2025, MDPI Canada hosted the MDPI New York Editors Salon, bringing together 50+ editors, researchers, and academics to engage in important discussions that helped to not only shape the publishing processes of MDPI moving forward but also push open access research forward as a whole. Held at Columbia University’s Faculty House, the Salon provided an outlet for industry difference-makers to convene. With the plethora of discussions, presentations, knowledge exchange, and networking opportunities, the event aided MDPI Canada in reinforcing its commitment to the North American scientific community, both now and in the future.

The presentations provided an inside look at MDPI Canada’s operations and initiatives in North America, open access and its entry into mainstream publishing, and the IOAP and Institutional Partnerships. Following an award presentation celebrating a select few distinguished attendees, the festivities began anew with a presentation on Publication Ethics at MDPI, highlighting key facts regarding MDPI’s internal processes and dispelling concerns typical within the industry. The final session consisted of a roundtable discussion on a variety of key topics such as MDPI’s incredibly fast review process and its safeguards, collaborative promotion of MDPI journals on a broad scale, applications of AI use in publishing, and the potential development of publishing protocols to increase the Impact Factor of various journals. Each attendee was given the chance to offer feedback to the panel, and the collaborative insights gained and shared between scholars and the publisher provided a foundation for MDPI to improve its processes and relationships, both on an academic and institutional level, while maintaining the efficiency and quality in scholarly publishing that our editors have come to expect.

The MDPI New York Salon was a celebration of academic excellence, and as our first North American Salon outside of Canada, it served as a baseline from which we can expand our reach into all areas of the continent in which MDPI editors reside. We extend our gratitude to every attendee, speaker, and award winner for their participation and contributions. As MDPI Canada continues to support open access research and scientific publishing, we look forward to hosting more gatherings such as this to allow the brightest minds in academia to gather.