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29/07/2026

Android devices account for over 70% of the global smartphone market. The scale alone makes them a prime target for malware.

Recent AI-driven detection research, featured in our newest open-access reprint "Artificial Intelligence in Cyberspace Security," shows machine learning models now achieving 97.82% accuracy in malware detection and 96.09% in categorization, significantly outperforming traditional signature-based approaches.

As mobile threats evolve, so does the tooling to counter them. Worth a read for anyone working in security, ML, or applied AI research.

Read more here:
https://brnw.ch/21x4wDm

27/07/2026

This Reprint brings together eleven contributions that address this pathway from complementary perspectives. The papers examine data resource evaluation, knowledge graph reasoning, recommendation, secure data exchange, implicit authentication, multimodal speech processing, image distillation, adapti...

20/07/2026

Climate finance keeps flowing to the countries least affected by climate change. The ones facing the worst of it get the smallest share.

This book takes that mismatch apart — finance, migration, and inequality, treated as one connected system instead of three separate problems.

Free to read. Open access.

09/07/2026

🏆 Announcing the winners of our Early Career Researcher Prize!

Sponsored by four MDPI journals — Humanities, Philosophies MDPI, Publications MDPI, and Social Sciences MDPI — each selected one winning book proposal to receive a full waiver of Book Processing Charges and complete editorial and production support toward open-access publication with MDPI Books.

With a highly competitive field of applicants this year, our selection committees faced a genuinely difficult decision. Congratulations to all our winners and a sincere thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. We were impressed by the applications and hope to see many of you apply again in future competitions.

Swipe through to meet our winners 👉

Read the full announcement: https://www.mdpi.com/books/news/17492

06/07/2026

📣 🌍 Unpacking the complex political landscape of Nigeria!

📚 🤝 Check out this brilliant Open Access Book published in collaboration with MDPI Books and the journal Social Sciences MDPI!

💡 📉 It is not just about security. This rigorous research dives into the socioeconomic implications and the heavy human costs of violence caused by armed groups.

🔍 🧠 Key takeaways explore:
✅ 💸 Economic reverberations across local markets
✅ 🏛️ The consequences of power contestation
✅ 🌱 Impacts on the broader African political economy

🗣️ 💭 What role do you think local communities play in rebuilding after institutional strain? Drop a comment!

👇 📖 Read the entire open access analysis for free: https://brnw.ch/21x3PCs

03/07/2026

Thirty years. Four armed groups. One country.

Two Nigerian researchers spent five years in the field trying to understand why, interviewing the groups themselves, under conditions of personal risk.

What they found isn't four separate problems. It's one failure, playing out four different ways.

Free to read. Open access.

17/06/2026

Your PhD thesis deserves a global audience.

MDPI Books publishes defended doctoral theses as open access books — with a permanent ISBN and DOI, hardback on Amazon, and indexing across major academic databases.

No external peer review required. Your institution already handled that.

Who can apply: → Defended within the last 5 years → Institutionally validated thesis → Any field, any institution worldwide

Publication starts from CHF 2,000.

Want to develop your thesis into a full peer-reviewed monograph instead? We offer that pathway too.

Find out more and submit your proposal: https://brnw.ch/21x3pUS

Enquiries: [email protected]

11/06/2026

Choosing the right publication format can shape your research career. 📖

Journal articles move fast — perfect for staying at the cutting edge in STEM. Monographs go deep, giving humanities and social science researchers the space to explore complex questions over time.

Not sure which is right for you? Our latest blog breaks it all down, from peer review timelines to open access options.

https://brnw.ch/21x3gsF

When comparing monographs vs journal articles, there are key differences for authors interested in publishing to consider. But what are they?

10/06/2026

Violence in Nigeria isn't just a security crisis. It's a governance story, an economic story, and a human story.

Non-State Actors and Violence in Nigeria brings together empirical research and interdisciplinary theory to explain how weak institutions have allowed armed groups to redraw the country's political and socioeconomic landscape — and what that means for democracy and development across the continent.

Free to download and read → https://brnw.ch/21x3edu

07/05/2026

A History of Doors in Sri Lankan Architecture 🚪

Have you ever stopped to think about the doors you pass through every day?

Dr. Nishan Rasanga Wijetunge's new Open Access book, "Ge Dora―Timeless Thresholds: Glimpses of Sri Lanka's Domestic Doors Through History", takes us on a journey through Sri Lankan architecture, from colonial influences to political independence, told through the doors that witnessed it all.

Over two decades, Wijetunge photographed 66 doors across Sri Lanka's towns and villages, capturing three pivotal centuries of history. Each door, he says, is a silent sentinel to the island's rich architectural legacy.

📖 Read the full blog post: https://brnw.ch/21x2gYw
📘 Download the book for free: https://brnw.ch/21x2gYv

What is the cultural significance of doors in Sri Lankan architecture? "Ge Dora―Timeless Thresholds" answers this unaddressed question.