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Software Licensing Service
Software Licensing Service
To learn more about the service visit our Software Licensing Service Website*.
*only within MPG IP-range
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bloxsearcher
What is bloxsearcher?
bloxsearcher is an emerging community platform for MPG researchers managed by the Max Planck Digital Library to provide comprehensive background information on why and how blockchain technology can generate added value for science. To start with, bloxsearcher aims to facilitate access to already existing decentralized applications. With a growing community, bloxsearcher’s goal is to bring scientists together to kick-start collaborative design of sustainable blockchain applications.
From Bitcoin to reputation
bloxsearcher builds on bloxberg, a secure global blockchain infrastructure, that was established in early 2019 by a consortium of renowned research organizations under the leadership of the MPDL to provide scientists with decentralized services and foster collaboration among the scientific community.
No matter whether you are blockchain-savvy or new to the field, want to explore the opportunities or start incorporating blockchain applications into your workflows. If you are interested to hear more about bloxberg, dedicated decentralized applications, and the bloxsearcher initiative – become part of an innovative and interdisciplinary community.To join the community, subscribe to our newsletter, or for any bloxsearcher related questions, please contact the Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!.
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Software Development
Since its foundation, MPDL works together with partners from the institutes and from outside the MPG to plan, specify, design, implement and manage software development projects. Having a main focus an data-centric web applications (visualizing, publishing, archiving data), MPDL has its strengths in project management, software quality assurance and unser interface optimisation, in web browsers as well as on mobile devices (including mobile apps). We use all common web and coding technologies and have outstanding expertise in database, file system, workflow, authentication/authorization, and transformation technologies.
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Labfolder
What is Labfolder?
Labfolder is the place to record, integrate and manage scientific data. With this electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) software researchers can handle the scientific documentation effortlessly with a lot of support for compliance with academic standards. Labfolder fully supports the Code of Conduct for Safeguarding Good Academic Practice. The Full Audit trail and the possibility of digital signatures ensure intellectual property and take care for data integrity.
Labfolder is characterized by an easy to handle rights and roles management. For example admin users are able to prevent group members from deleting entries or projects and are allowed to view group members’ lab notebooks. Labfolder makes it easy to create groups and subgroups, to define content share settings, to send messages within a group and to use comments to discuss data. Furthermore it is possible to assign tasks to group members.
It is not only possible to import PDF files, further processing of imported word or excel files can also be done within Labfolder. The integration of external apps like Figshare completes this ELN.Labfolder for Max Planck researchers
The Max Planck licensing model for Labfolder includes two usage scenarios that try to cover the various and demanding requirements of our Max Planck Institutes.
(1) Local installation
Labfolder can be set up as an in-house service at the respective institute. Thereby the emerging data will be stored in locally operated server environments.
For using a local Labfolder installation Max Planck researchers need to contact the in-house IT department and/or library team on-site. Cooperations with researchers outside of Max Planck Society are possible, but are potentially limited by regulations of the respective Max Planck Institutes.
(2) Central installation
All Max Planck researchers have the possibility to use the central MPG Labfolder solution, which is operated by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). The emerging data will be stored at the computer center GWDG in Göttingen, Germany.
The central installation offers possibilities for a better collaboration on research projects with various stakeholders from different Max Planck institutes, associated organizations, or joint research groups around the world.
For more information about the MPG Labfolder instance please contact the Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! at the MPDL.To get to know more about labfolder in principle and discover all provided ELN features, please contact Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!, the Max Planck account manager at Labfolder.
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Scientific Journals
Did you know that Max Planck researchers have access to more than 15,000 scientific journals? Negotiating with over 100 commercial publishers worldwide, we organize licensing, financing and access exclusively for you.
Access to journals and articles is provided invisibly through "on campus" authentication - no passwords required, no annoying login or paywall experiences. This service is called "MPDL Access Magic" which allows you to go to the publishers’ websites directly or use your preferred tools to search for individual articles such as Google, PubMed or Web of Science. If you like to look for a specific journal use the Electronic Journals Library (EZB). In addition, our recently launched research navigator MPG.ReNa provides you with an overview of information resources available at MPG including all licensed journal collections.
If you have any questions concerning access issues, license questions, IP address changes or questions about the MPG "Grundversorgung" ask our MPDL Access Magic Helpdesk.
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Scientific Application Services - Support for your Research
A joint service portfolio of
Max Planck Computing & Data Facility (MPCDF)
Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
With our joint team and expertise of MPCDF and MPDL we support you and your research in addition to the IT staff at your MPI. Our specialists and our management operate in close cooperation to provide you with the best scientific application service – especially for the planning and realization of large projects requiring a broad range of services and facilities.
We assist in finding financing solutions for your next great plan. Our joint support will be led by a single, project-specific person from one of us.Click on our interactive map:
Contact us – we are looking forward to working with you:
Hotline (Monday to Friday 7:00-19:00)
+49 (0) 89 909311-243
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Research Data Management
The MPDL offers advice and support in research data management. We help to create data management plans for project proposals, we have competency in metadata standards needed for the long-term archival of research data and we assist in converting data to commonly accepted formats.
We support researchers in finding suitable data repositories and offer possibilities to store research data in a nicely presented, citable, and reusable way.
Contact: Yves Vincent Grossmann
More Info: RDM-Website
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Librarian's Resource Center
Eine wichtige Aufgabe der MPDL besteht darin, den Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern an den Max-Planck-Instituten alle relevanten elektronischen Informationsressourcen des institutsübergreifenden Bedarfs optimal zur Verfügung zu stellen. Dies geschieht in Zusammenarbeit mit den lokalen Bibliotheken. Die folgenden Informationen richten sich insbesondere an die Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den lokalen Bibliotheken in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
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Was ist die Grundversorgung?
Allgemeine Informationen, Akteure
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Kommunikation
Mailinglisten, Liste der Bibliotheken und Serviceeinrichtungen
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Ressourcen
Übersicht über lizenzierte Produkte, Titellisten, Nutzungsbedingungen, Nutzungsstatistiken
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Erwerbung
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Authentifizierung und Registrierung
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Zugangssysteme
Bibliothekssysteme, EZB, E-Books-Katalog, MPG Bibliothekskataloge, MPG.ReNa, MPG/SFX
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Open Access für Bibliotheken
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MPDL Access Magic Helpdesk
The MPDL Access Magic Helpdesk takes care of all your concerns about access issues, license questions, IP address changes and consulting around all the information services included in the "Grundversorgung" of the MPG. We work with more than 150 publishers to resolve issues.
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Reporting and Statistical Analyses
MPDL creates custom reports for specific decsion making processes concerning the MPG information environment. Based on comprehensive and multi-variate approaches, we identify and collect target-specific financial, usage and structural information, analyze the data and visualize the results. As a result, insights are created into researcher information preferences, publisher relevance, information usage patterns and cost effectiveness.
Contact: Margit Palzenberger (MPDL)
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RIO - Research Information Observatory
The Research Information Observatory (RIO) aims at establishing a technical and operational framework for large bibliographic datasets and other forms of citation intelligence in order to support subject specialists in the MPG to perform their bibliometric analyses and research assessments.
MPDL provides an easy to use interface to the processed bibliometric data and is responsible for the operation of the framework including the necessary documentation. Developed together with a core group of MPG subject specialists, the project is currently building up.
Contact: Margit Palzenberger (MPDL)
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MPG/SFX Demo
Your bridge to full text PDF
MPG/SFX is your button to download the requested article's full text PDF. It takes you from your search results directly to the article on the publisher's website. You will find the MPG/SFX button in databases like Web of Science, Scopus or on many other platforms.
MPDL maintains this link resolving service and constantly feeds it with the most recent developments in the MPG information portfolio.
Search Results
(Try the Demo-SFX Button below.)
By: Stratmann, MartinNATURE MEDICINE Volume: 20 Issue: 7 Pages: 695-695 Published: JUL 2014
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MPG City Service
The Max Planck Society grows continuously as a successful research organization - like an "MPG City" harboring diverse research institutes and an expanding infrastructure.
Within this city there are a significant number of service institutions for all Max Planck Institutes and their research. Our "MPG City Service" guides you through the MPG City and helps you to find the right contact person specific for your needs. We support you and your plans with information about MPG offers regarding digital services, research data management or scientific tools.
Call us!
MPG-City Service Hotline: +49 (0) 89 909311-243 (Monday to Friday 7:00-19:00)
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Max Planck Brain Imaging Library (OpenBILD)
Projekt Koordinator: MPI für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
Partner
- MPI für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
- MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig
- MPI für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
Laufzeit: 01.02.2013 – 31.01.2015
Projektbeschreibung:
Hirnforschung findet immer größere Aufmerksamkeit in der Presse. Um fundierte Aussagen über die Funktionsweise des menschlichen Gehirns treffen zu können, bedarf es an qualitativen Daten und oft auch einer großen Anzahl an Beispielen für Vergleiche. Daten aus den Neurowissenschaften sind nicht nur äußerst heterogen sondern auch sehr verteilt, so dass Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft vielfach nicht von Experimenten an anderen Standorten profitieren können. Das Projekt OpenBILD konzentriert sich auf Anpassungen der Open Source Plattform XNAT , um Wissenschaftlern aus den Neurowissenschaften das Archivieren und Austauschen von Daten zu ermöglichen. Gleichzeitig werden Werkzeuge für automatische Qualitätskontrollen als auch für das Vorbereiten der Daten zur Verfügung gestellt.Die Heterogenität der Daten wird sichtbar, wenn man die verschiedenen Datentypen genauer betrachtet. So finden sich unter den Daten der Wissenschaftler neben Bilddaten im sogenannten DICOM Format aus den MRT Scannern auch demographische, sozioökologische, psychologische, verhaltensbezogene, medizinische und genetische Informationen in den unterschiedlichsten Formaten. Um die Untersuchung der umfangreichen Bestände auch in Zukunft zu gewährleisten, ist die Entwicklung bzw. Nutzung einer Ontologie geplant. Die im Rahmen der Ontologie definierten Konzepte und Beziehungen dienen dazu, Suchen und Browsen der Daten deutlich zu verbessern.
Um eine nutzbare Plattform für die Wissenschaftler schaffen zu können, müssen ihre Bedürfnisse, ihre verwendeten Datenformate und Workflows im Detail bekannt sein. Der Austausch mit den Neurowissenschaftlern ist für die Entwicklungen in OpenBILD daher von großer Bedeutung. Zur Gewährleistung des Austausches pendelt einer der Entwickler in einem ersten Schritt kontinuierlich zwischen den Institutsstandorten Berlin und Leipzig. Gleichzeig wird der Austausch mit der Open Source Community vorangetrieben, da die Weiterentwicklung der XNAT Plattform selbst sinnvoller Weise in Gemeinsamkeit mit der genannten Community erfolgt. Auf diese Weise profitiert das Projekt von Entwicklungen, die aus den Reihen der Community stammen. Anpassungen der Software, die nur für die Institute relevant sind, werden separat entwickelt und können dann als Modul später mit dem aktuellsten Release der XNAT Anwendung integriert werden.
Im Laufe des Projektes wird die MPDL die Fähigkeit aufbauen, Support für die bestehenden Installationen als auch eine Beratung für weitere interessierte Institutionen anbieten zu können. Dazu findet ein systematischer Wissenstransfer von den Projektteilnehmern zur MPDL statt, insbesondere durch Dokumentation, Videokonferenzen, Face-to-Face-Treffen und eine enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Entwicklern sowie den Projektkoordinatoren. Die MPDL akkumuliert dabei das Wissen der verschiedenen Projektteilnehmer. Als Grundlage für den späteren Betrieb werden die Institute mit Unterstützung der MPDL ein Nachhaltigkeits- und Finanzierungskonzept erarbeiten.
- eXtensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
- Magnetresonanztomographie
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Publication Data Migration Support
The MPDL migration team supports you and your library migrating to the central Max Planck Publication Repository MPG.PuRe. We extract and convert publication data from systems at the end of their lifecycle. We convert data streams from various sources in a single well-defined format. Over the last 5 years we have successfully supported more than 40 institutes with their migration challenges.Migration from eDoc to MPG.PuRe
Procedure for migration from eDoc to MPG.PuRe
Migration from from other sources
Migration from Endnote, BibTeX and other non-eDoc sources have become standard procedures for us.Please contact us for further information and a discussion of your special needs.
Contact and further information: Martin Boosen (MPDL)
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Joint Forces for Better Information Infrastructure
MPDL continuously improves conditions for more intuitive, more flexible and more reliable information access. Numerous software products and information resources are employed to support a seamless service to researchers. We work with various vendors as well as user communities on top management and operational employee level to monitor and influence upcoming developments for the benefit of MPG users.
Contact: Ralf Schimmer (MPDL)
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Joint Forces for Better Licensing
MPDL collaborates with national and international partners to broaden the scope of and to improve the accessibility to electronic resources for MPG researchers. These collaborations are very valuable for successful licensing negotiations. On the national level, members of MPDL participate in different working groups of the Alliance Initiative and are present in the GASCO (the German, Austrian and Swiss Consortia Organisation). On an international level, MPDL is a member of the ICOLC (International Consortium of Library Consortia).
Contact: Ralf Schimmer (MPDL)
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Aleph
Maximize your library's efficiency
The Aleph integrated library system (ILS) with its efficient and user-friendly tools is currently used by 40 research libraries within the MPG to accommodate the daily demands of their researchers. Aleph supports the complete workflow of a modern, user-centered research library. This includes catalog enrichment, acquisition, serials control, loan, inter library loan, web-based search interface. The system configuration can be tailored to meet virtually any library policy or procedure, enabling the creation of unique policies and workflows. The service is hosted and maintained by GWDG. GWDG supports MPG Librarians with regards to system configuration and optimization. Aleph is an integrated library system (ILS) by Ex Libris. Since 2000 the Max Planck Society and the GWDG have been running a central Aleph server for MPI libraries.
The forty instances do not share a common database (no library consortia), but are quite independent in their setup.
MPDL is responsible for licensing matters. Hosting, support, and central system librarians' tasks are done by GWDG. System librarians in the MPIs take care of their libraries' individual setup and, in a joint working group, of a standardized setup for those libraries wishing their setup to be maintained centrally. Another working group develops and keeps up to date a corporate design for the Aleph OPAC.
The Aleph team is a group of MPI librarians and members of MPDL and GWDG. They meet about twice a year to discuss different topics, e.g. ongoing developments, the roll out of software upgrades and the participation of the partners in national and international Aleph user groups. The Aleph Team issues a bi-monthly Newsletter informing the librarians of its ongoing work. Discussion and documentation tool for the work of the Aleph team ist the Aleph Wiki. General information on the MPS Aleph Server is available. (Note: Some of the links in this article lead to the Aleph Wiki to which access is restricted to members of MPS and GWDG.)
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Open Access Publishing
Our aim is to make Open Access publishing as easy as possible for Max Planck authors. This information provides an overview of the Max Planck wide arrangements by which open access article charges (APCs) are covered or reduced. You can also search for a specific journal to find out whether APCs are covered here:
Please note that there are many more relevant Open Access journals, including those not raising any article charges. A complete overview is available in the:
Most of our Open Access agreements require Max Planck authors to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). You can find further information here:
How to benefit from central funding?
To be eligible, Max Planck affiliated authors must be corresponding author of the publication and the Max Planck affiliation must be stated in the published paper. For some agreements, eligible authors must also be submitting author. Specific criteria are listed below for each publisher. Please use your Max Planck email address at all stages of the publishing process if possible to support automated identification processes from the publishers.
Open Access agreements (Article charges covered centrally by MPDL)
PUBLISHER ENTITLED AUTHORS JOURNALS Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Corresponding author The ACM open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in all ACM journals under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY)
American Chemical Society (ACS) Submitting corresponding author The ACS open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated submitting corresponding authors in ACS journals that offer a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY)
AIP Publishing (AIPP) Submitting corresponding author The AIPP open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated submitting corresponding authors in AIP-owned subscription journals
American Physical Society (APS) Initial corresponding author The APS open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated initial corresponding authors in all APS Journals (except “Review of Modern Physics” and “Physics”)
BioMed Central (BMC)
Corresponding author
Cambridge University Press (CUP) Submitting corresponding author The CUP open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated submitting corresponding authors in all fully open access and hybrid journals
Copernicus
Corresponding author
EDP Sciences/ Astronomy & Astrophysics Corresponding author The EDP Sciences open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in Astronomy & Astrophysics
eLIFE
Corresponding author
F1000Research Corresponding author F1000Research articles up to 8.000 words and more; please contact us in case of charges for oversized data storage Frontiers
Corresponding author
Hindawi Corresponding author All Hindawi journals IGI Global Journals Corresponding author Eligible IGI Global journals Institute of Physics (IOP) & Electrochemical Society (ECS) Corresponding author The IOP open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in IOP Gold OA and Hybrid journals.
Karger Corresponding author The hybrid open access agreement with Karger centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in all Karger subscription journals.
Please note that charges for additional options (color-in-print, posters etc.) are NOT covered by this agreement.Mary Ann Liebert Corresponding author The hybrid open access agreement with Mary Ann Liebert centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in all currently subscribed journals.
Microbiology Society Corresponding author The publish and read agreement with Microbiology Society centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in all gold and hybrid journals.
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Corresponding author
Nature Corresponding author The Nature Read & Publish Framework Agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in Nature Research Jorunals.
Open Library of Humanities MPDL supports OLH through financial partnership. OLH does not charge any publication fees. OLH Oxford University Press (OUP) Corresponding author The agreement with OUP centrally covers the open access charge for affiliated corresponding authors in subscription-based journals that offer the hybrid open access option and that also have a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).
PeerJ
Corresponding authors
The agreement covers open access charges for publications by Max Planck corresponding authors in all PeerJ journals.
Portland Press Corresponding authors The open access agreement with Portland Press centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in all Portland Press/Biochemical Society journals.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Corresponding author
Rockefeller University Press (RUP) Corresponding author The open access agreement with RUP centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in these 3 RUP journals: Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of General Physiology.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) / RSC "Read & Publish"
Corresponding author
The RSC "Read & Publish" agreement centrally covers the open access charge for affiliated corresponding authors in those subscription-based journals that offer the hybrid open access option and that also have a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY). There is no central payment for publishing in RSC Gold Open Access journals, but all Max Planck corresponding authors receive a 15% discount for article charges for RSC Gold Open Access.
SAGE Submitting corresponding author All OA gold journals and hybrid journals in 2021 Premier title set
ScienceOpen [Pilot agreement]
Corresponding author
SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics)
Primary or Corresponding author
The SPIE open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated primary and corresponding authors in all fully open access and hybrid journals except Proceedings.
Springer Nature
Corresponding author
MPG participates in the agreement between Project DEAL and Springer Nature and centrally covers the Open Access fees for affiliated corresponding authors in ca. 2.500 hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Taylor & Francis, Cogent
Corresponding author
The Company of Biologists Corresponding author The agreement centrally covers the open access charge for affiliated corresponding authors in all journals of the Company of Biologists under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).
The Royal Society
corresponding author
The Open Access agreement with the Royal Society centrally covers Open Access fees for articles submitted by affiliated corresponding authors between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2023 in all hybrid and fully OA journals.
Wiley
Submitting corresponding author
MPG participates in the agreement between Project DEAL and Wiley and centrally covers the Open Access fees for affiliated corresponding authors in all hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Open Access Monograph Publishing
PUBLISHER ENTITLED AUTHORS Cambridge University Press Authors affiliated with a Max Planck Institute receive a discount on the Book Publishing Charge (BPC). MPDL covers the costs on a pro rata basis.
Further information De Gruyter OA Books
Authors affiliated with a Max Planck Institute - authors receive a discount if more than one Open Access monograph is published with De Gruyter - no central payment by MPDL
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Nomos
Agreement with Nomos to publish open access monographs: MPDL covers costs of a simultaneous open access online publication.
Springer Nature Authors affiliated with a Max Planck Institute receive a discount on the Book Publishing Charge (BPC). MPDL covers the costs on a pro rata basis. Further information Further related terms and conditions for Max Planck Authors (without central funding)
The following table shows special terms and conditions for Max Planck authors beyond our central agreements where no central funding is provided.
PUBLISHER CONDITIONS JOURNALS AAAS / Science
Corresponding author - All Max Planck corresponding authors may receive institutional savings of 15%. AAAS members are entitled to receive additional savings - no central payment by MPDL.
More information at AAAS / ScienceAdvances
IOS Press
Corresponding author - All Max Planck corresponding authors receive a 50% discount for article charges for IOS Press’ Open Access option - no central payment by MPDL
National Acacemy of Sciences / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS)
Corresponding author - All Max Planck corresponding authors receive a discount for the Open Access fees ($4,975 instead of $5,475) for a CC BY-NC-ND or a CC-BY license (MPDL encourages the use of CC-BY). - no central payment by MPDL
Any journal or publisher missing?
In case you are in need of funding for open access publication charges for a specific journal or publisher, please contact us. We strive for further agreements with publishers where we see a shared demand from Max Planck authors. Please note that we cannot reimburse individual invoices. In that case, your institute or local library may provide further funding opportunities.
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Open Access Support
Open Access Publishing
also called “Gold” Open Access
means publishing in a genuine Open Access journal which ensures immediate free access to all articles at the very moment of publication. Copyright will remain with the authors while a public license (usually Creative Commons license CC-BY) is applied to the article. Many Open Access “Gold” journals require payment of „article processing charges“ (APCs) to replace the subscription charges which were traditionally paid by libraries. MPDL strives to cover APCs for Max Planck authors by setting up agreements with Open Access publishers. Learn more about our central agreements.
Open Access Archiving
also called “Green” Open Access
means that the published article or the final peer reviewed manuscript is archived (deposited) by the author or a representative in an online repository before, alongside or after its publication. Self-archiving regulations differ between publisher’s. Normally authors have to check their publishing agreement to find out whether self-archiving is allowed.
Since 2014 German copyright law has allowed authors of research publications at non-university research institutes to re-publish their papers 12 months after the original publication in a manuscript format. This right cannot be rescinded by any publishing agreement.
MPDL supports Open Access Archiving by providing the institutional repository MPG.PuRe.
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Services für Forscherinnen und Forscher
Wir haben die meistaufgerufenen Services für Sie als Sprungkacheln zusammengestellt. Die vollständige Liste mit Beschreibungen finden Sie in unserem Servicekatalog.
Wenn Sie nicht fündig werden oder Fragen haben, erreichen Sie uns unter der MPG-City Service Hotline +49 (0) 89 909311-243 (Montag bis Freitag 7:00-19:00) oder unter Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!.
Für alle Services gelten die allgemeinen Nutzungsbedingungen der Max Planck Digital Library.
Lots of data? Lots of tasks? Get smart tools.
EdmondimejiiThenticateKeeperLabfolderRDMO for MPGSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Licensing ServiceXNATNeed help? Find a contact.
MPDL Access MagicMPG City ServiceOpen Access SupportReporting and Statistical AnalysesResearch Data Management SupportResearch Funding InformationRIOPaper ready? Publish - become renowned.
Searching for something? Get scientific information.
Bibliographic DatabasesCENDARICitation DatabasesDatabases for FactsDigital Libraries Connected (DLC)eBooksEZB-Journal CatalogFACESLanguage Description HeritageMPDL Campus MagicMPDL Travel MagicMPG Citation LinkerMPG.eBooksMPG.ReNaMPG/SFXReference Works and HandbooksScientific JournalsStandards and NormsZFNToo much bibliographic information? Get organized.
Want to shape the future? Get networked.
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Services für Informationsexpertinnen und -experten
Wir haben die meistaufgerufenen Services für Sie als Sprungkacheln zusammengestellt. Die vollständige Liste mit Beschreibungen finden Sie in unserem Servicekatalog.
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Für alle Services gelten die allgemeinen Nutzungsbedingungen der Max Planck Digital Library.
Lots of data? Lots of tasks? Get smart tools.
Need help? Find a contact.
Librarian's Resource CenterMPDL Access MagicMPG City ServiceOpen Access SupportReporting and Statistical AnalysesResearch Data Management SupportRIOPaper ready? Publish - become renowned.
Searching for something? Get scientific information.
Bibliographic DatabasesCitation DatabasesDatabases for FactsDigital Libraries Connected (DLC)eBooksEZB-Journal CatalogLanguage Description HeritageMPDL Campus MagicMPDL Travel MagicMPG Citation LinkerMPG.eBooksMPG.ReNaMPG/SFXReference Works and HandbooksScientific JournalsStandards and NormsZFNToo much bibliographic information? Get organized.
Want to shape the future? Get networked.
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Servicekatalog
Schauen Sie sich einfach um. Wenn Sie in der folgenden Liste nicht fündig werden oder Fragen haben, erreichen Sie uns unter der MPG-City Service Hotline +49 (0) 89 909311-243 (Montag bis Freitag 7:00-19:00) oder unter Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!.
Für alle Services gelten die allgemeinen Nutzungsbedingungen der Max Planck Digital Library.
Aleph
Maximize your library's efficiency
The Aleph integrated library system (ILS) with its efficient and user-friendly tools is currently used by 40 research libraries within the MPG to accommodate the daily demands of their researchers. Aleph supports the complete workflow of a modern, user-centered research library. This includes catalog enrichment, acquisition, serials control, loan, inter library loan, web-based search interface. The system configuration can be tailored to meet virtually any library policy or procedure, enabling the creation of unique policies and workflows. The service is hosted and maintained by GWDG. GWDG supports MPG Librarians with regards to system configuration and optimization.arXiv - The Open Access Article Distribution Platform
Spread your articles worldwide
arXiv.org is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics. Being the archetypical open access preprint server, arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library. In order to sustain the operations as a free community service, arXiv is currently supported by a membership and governance model based on institutional contributions from the key user research laboratories. The current funding framework is defined for the years 2013-2017. The Max Planck Digital Library is organizing the support and contribution for the entire Max Planck Society.Berlin Signatories Management
Join us - be part of Open Access
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003 is a landmark of the Open Access movement. Several hundred institutions have signed up since then. The official English text version has been translated in many other languages. The MPDL is managing the Berlin signatory process and community.Bibliographic Databases
Discover relevant papers and books
You can't find certain articles or other works with Google? Need to identify articles or patents on a specific topic?Bibliographic databases are used to identify references to published literature, journal articles, conference proceedings, book materials, reports, patents, etc.
MPDL has subscribed to a selection of discipline specific bibliographic databases to provide MPG researchers and librarians with access to high-quality references information. Access to these databases is granted via a number of retrieval interfaces, including the Web of Knowledge, ProQuest, SCOPUS and EBSCOHost.
Follow the link to the list of currently subscribed bibliographic databases.
bloxsearcher
Blockchainify your research!
bloxsearcher is an emerging community platform for MPG researchers managed by the Max Planck Digital Library to provide comprehensive background information on why and how the blockchain technology can generate added value for science. To start with, bloxsearcher aims to facilitate access to already existing decentralized applications. With a growing community, bloxsearcher’s goal is to bring scientists together to kick-start collaborative design of sustainable blockchain applications.CENDARI - Collaborative EuropeaN Digital ARchive Infrastructure
A pipeline for historical research
CENDARI is a 4-year project funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme for Research in following case study areas: Medieval Culture and First World War.CENDARI will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history through the development of an "enquiry environment". This environment will increase access to records of historic importance across the European research area, creating a powerful new platform for accessing and investigating historical data in a transnational fashion overcoming the national and institutional data silos that now exist. CENDARI will enable the formation of new research questions, through tools for aggregation, interrogation and visualization of historical sources, source descriptions and other data.
The MPDL experiences in conceptualization and development of research infrastructures and tools as well as its strong involvement in DARIAH Project will be beneficial for the CENDARI developments.
The CENDARI Project outcomes and results, especially in the area of the data integration and semantic services as well as knowledge organization framework will further strengthen the MPDL orientation towards development of tools that support the e-workbench scenarios, especially in the area of automated data acquisition, entity recognition, data mashups and metadata enrichment.
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Citation Databases
What's your Impact?
We provide the most comprehensive databases for science assessment and evaluation.Essential Science Indicators - Based on Web of Science data, Essential Science Indicators is a compilation of essential science performance statistics and science trends. The chief indicators of output, or productivity, are journal article publication counts. For influence and impact measures, Essential Science Indicators employs both total citation counts and cites per paper scores.
Journal Citation Reports - Compiler of Impact Factor information. JCR delivers quantifiable statistical information based on citation data from Web of Science in order to evaluate scientific journals.
Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) - Multidisciplinary Citation Index comprising the leading journal and proceedings literature from 1900 until present. A feature of the WoS is that from any bibliographic record in the database links are available to its cited references, to related articles and to citing articles.
SCOPUS - A large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. It features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts & humanities.
Follow the link to the list of currently subscribed citation and bibliographic databases.
CoLab
The knowledge base of the Max Planck Digital Library.
The Collaboration Laboratory (CoLab) is an interactive platform for sharing information, knowledge, and experiences across projects in the field of information infrastructure. The MediaWiki consists of more than 5,000 pages, 2,000 files and 750 registered users.CoNE - MPG Reference Data Server
Stay clean, stay with CoNE
The MPG CoNE (Control of Named Entities) platform hosts and provides multiple sets of controlled vocabularies used to ensure data quality and data consistency in different MPG software solutions, e.g. in MPG.PuRe, the MPG Publication Repository. It enables easy data entry, differentiation of ambiguous data representations and therefore also clean search results. In addition to continuously extended reference data (like MPG affiliated authors and scientific journals), the service also provides authority records from different standardization organizations (ISO-639 languages, IANA mime types) and classification vocabularies (DDC Dewey Decimal Classification). CoNE can be queried via a machine interface and delivers data in multiple, widely accepted formats, like RDF/XML, JSON and HTML. A comfortable web interface enables straightforward creation, import, edit and search of data. The service is easily extensible and configurable for new vocabulary sets. This allows e.g. the inclusion of individual subject classifications for Max Planck institutes.DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Europe for Humanities
DARIAH is a pan-European initiative to bring together national, regional, and local endeavors to form a cooperative infrastructure for the Humanities. The DARIAH network provides access to people, information and tools. MPDL leverages DARIAH to explore novel information infrastructure services.Goto DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Databases for Facts
Reliable information complementary to the Internet
Would you like to extract facts and figures or to conduct reviews and verifications?MPDL provides to all Max Planck researchers a portfolio of more than a dozen databases with reliable sources and references supplying information compiled by experts. Find for example chemical information like substances, reactions, and structures with SciFinder or look up business facts and figures in the WISO database.
Digital Libraries Connected (DLC)
Managing, Editing and Publishing digital collections
Digital Libraries Connected (DLC) is a publication platform for digitized historic works of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The current holdings date back up to the 16th century. DLC is a joint system of four Max Planck institute libraries and open for cooperating institutions.Beyond serving as a portal, DLC offers web-based tools to support the publishing and editing of digitized copies on the internet. Scans, metadata, transcriptions and structure interpretations in TEI format can be easily uploaded and published. If no TEI is available, the integrated online editor allows the straightforward creation of simple content structures, thereby making it possible to find and navigate the digitized works. All copies in DLC can be referenced using persistent URLs. They can also be exported in standard formats. Integrated image tools enable detailed viewing of the ancient works. The integration of full texts allows searching also older scanned works which have been enriched with adding full texts. As all collections are stored in the same infrastructure, it is possible to search across different collections and institutions.
DLC is maintained and operated by MPDL.
DOI Service
Make your content citable
Assigning persistent identifiers to research data and unpublished text material is of growing importance to improve the citability of these resources. This is a necessary step towards enabling easy data distribution and reuse. The MPDL is supporting Max Planck researchers with registering Datacite DOI names to scholarly objects stored in MPG repositories. This is done in cooperation with the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).eBooks - The Collections
More than 650.000 scientific eBooks - one click away
MPDL has licensed over 650.000 scientific eBooks for the Max Planck Society. They can be accessed and downloaded directly from the publisher sites. To locate eBooks, simply use google scholar, the publisher's website or MPG.eBooks.The current collection has been growing over the last 3-5 years and continues to increase. The link below directs you to the list of licensed eBook collections as bundled by the publishers.
Edmond
Give a home to your open data
Edmond is a research data repository for Max Planck researchers. It is the place to store completed collections of scientific data sets with open access. Edmond can be used to publish raw data for re-use by other researchers as well as supplementary secondary data underlying a certain publication. Our research data repository features a non-restrictive metadata schema definition, as simple as you like and as complex as your parameters require.Edmond is provided as a central service by the Max Planck Digital Library. It is based on the Open Source Software imeji.
ESAC
Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges
ESAC (Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges) is an initiative pursuing the development of agreed service standards around Gold Open Access charges. This includes:
• help shaping the principles and conditions of the APC (article processing charges) based business model
• gain more evidence on institutional APC workflows and their respective challenges involved
• partner with publishers in order to work on the improvement of processes such as submission and author identification, invoicing and reporting
• start the discussion on efficient workflows involving all parties such as funders, libraries, authors, standardization initiatives, and publishers
• become a reference point and network in order to communicate good practices, proven workflows and guidelines on this subject
As of November 2015, ESAC moved into the DFG funded project INTACT, an open access infrastructure project that brings together three already existing initiatives which will now collaborate under one roof. Besides ESAC, this is the Open APC platform at Bielefeld University Library and the working group Open Access Analytics at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SoS) at Bielefeld University. INTACT aims at an improvement of the infrastructure which is needed to ensure a transparent and efficient APC market.
EZB-Journal Catalog
Locate your journal across libraries
You can't find your journal with Google? Need to identify a library with access rights to a specific journal?The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) offers information on print and electronic journals held by more than 600 libraries. Supported by collective data management across all EZB member libraries the EZB data is of highest quality and constantly up-to-date. It serves member libraries as an administration tool for eJournal licenses and provides researchers and librarians with a simple and clear information on access rights.
EZB was founded in 1997 by the libraries of University of Regensburg and TU München with the support of German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts. It is operated at University of Regensburg. MPDL is an EZB member library and continuously manages the holding entries for the MPG licenses.
FACES
Get a view of anger, fear and happiness
FACES is a research data management application specifically created by MPDL for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Dept. U. Lindenberger). It harbors a unique research data collection of images with emotional facial expressions (neutrality, sadness, disgust, fear, anger, and happiness).The image collection is freely available for scientific purposes and was re-used in various contexts worldwide. It solves the challenge of data privacy by distinguishing an open part of the collection and other parts, which are made available to researchers on a case by case basis.
The FACES application is maintained and operated by MPDL. It was the beginning of a series of novel software developments at MPDL with imeji and Edmond being the latest services.
imeji - Planning, installation and support service
Set-up your own research data management repository
imeji is an open-source server software to describe, enrich, organize, identify, find, share, present and store research data. imeji software is a Web application with a RESTfull API and can be deployed on any operating system which supports Java.The Max Planck Digital Library develops and operates imeji for following services:
• Open Access Data Repository: Edmond
• Research data enrichment, structuring and sharing: Gluons
• Administrative Data dissemination: Outbox
With our technical expertise, we guide any Max Planck institute interested in using imeji for its own purpose. Especially, we advise you on the best way to use imeji for your specific scenario and we support you installing imeji for a sustainable and excellent service for your excellent research.
Information Needs Assessments
Report your needs to shape your information resources
How can I inform MPDL about the information needs at my institute?Librarians use the MPG-BEER (Bestands- und Bedarfsermittlung) web interface to submit general needs (Wunschliste) as well as semiquantitative ratings for selected resources. A database backbone- also part of the MPG-BEER toolkit- facilitates overview, analysis and reporting by MPDL staff and ensures long-term availability of well structured evidence for licensing decisions. The complete toolkit was developed and is operated by the MPDL.
iThenticate
Prevent plagiarism in your work
iThenticate is a leading plagiarism checker service. It makes it easier for you to identify and attribute any material in that may contain unintentional plagiarism. As an author you can ensure that you have sufficiently cited your sources. As an reviewer it can help you to detect plagiarism and attribution issues that could potentially damage reputations or spawn repercussions like financial and legal obligations.iThenticate compares your uploaded documents to published research articles from global scientific, technical and medical publishers and web content. Highlighted text will include text that has been properly quoted and cited so it is not necessarily plagiarized. You will need to verify that every highlighted section has been properly quoted, summarized or paraphrased.
Note: iThenticate is a hosted third party service. As you need to upload your documents to the company's servers, it is not suited for documents containing sensitive information.
Joint Forces for Better Information Infrastructure
We enhance your information access
MPDL continuously improves conditions for more intuitive, more flexible and more reliable information access. Numerous software products and information resources are employed to support a seamless service to researchers. We work with various vendors as well as user communities on top management and operational employee level to monitor and influence upcoming developments for the benefit of MPG users.Joint Forces for Better Licensing
Better licensing conditions with national and international consortia
MPDL collaborates with national and international partners to broaden the scope of and to improve the accessibility to electronic resources for MPG researchers. These collaborations are very valuable for successful licensing negotiations. On the national level, members of MPDL participate in different working groups of the Priority Initiative 'Digital Information' of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany and are present in the GASCO (the German, Austrian and Swiss Consortia Organization). On the international level, MPDL drives these topics as a member of the ICOLC (International Consortium of Library Consortia).Keeper - Archive the way you work
Profit from safe data storage, seamlessly integrated into your research workflow
With the Keeper Service you can easily sync and share your project data and in addition we take care that your work is properly archived in the Max Planck infrastructure. Convince yourself of the reliable and high performant file syncing algorithms and the built-in file encryption. Support your team with the Keeper collaboration functionalities. With storing your data in Keeper you can be sure to fulfil the archiving regulations of the Max Planck Society as well as the German Research Foundation to ensure ‘good scientific practice’. Or you deposit your data to the Keeper Service after your project ends for long term compliant archiving.The Keeper Service is free of charge for all Max Planck employees. If you are from an external organization and collaborate with the Max Planck Society you are also invited to exploit the Keeper Service for all Max Planck related projects. Please contact the Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!.
Labfolder
An ELN solution designed for scientists by scientists
Labfolder is the place to record, integrate and manage research data. With this electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) software researchers can handle the scientific documentation effortlessly with a lot of support for compliance with academic standards. For Max Planck researcher there are two usage scenarios available: Labfolder can be set up as a service at the respective local institute. Furthermore all Max Planck researchers have the possibility to use a central MPG Labfolder solution, which is provided by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL).Language Description Heritage
Openly access hard-to-get language documents
Language Description Heritage (LDH) provides open access to descriptive material about the world's languages with a focus on traditionally difficult to obtain works. This collection is being compiled by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. MPDL maintains and operates the LDH application. LDH relies on MPG.PuRe as its document repository.Librarian's Resource Center
Satisfy your need to know
Die MPDL hat die Aufgabe, den Wissenschaftler/-innen an den Max-Planck-Instituten alle relevanten elektronischen Informationsressourcen des institutsübergreifenden Bedarfs optimal zur Verfügung zu stellen. Dies geschieht in Zusammenarbeit mit den lokalen Bibliotheken. Die folgenden Informationen richten sich insbesondere an die Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den lokalen Bibliotheken in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.Minerva Messenger
Your managed Slack alternative
The Minerva Messenger (based on Mattermost) brings all MPG communication together, making it searchable, accessible & easy to use – anywhere. You can create your chat channels, communicate with team members, discuss current topics and share your data files. Also, you can invite external collaboration partners & use Zoom at any time. Furthermore Minerva Messenger offers functionalities of Boards to manage projects and Playbooks to orchestrate workflows, supporting you and your team to arrange project tasks, meeting minutes, and re-occurring processes. This innovative platform is provided & maintained by the MPDL, which means all your data is safe within our secure MPG infrastructure.MPDL Access Magic
Get access, get your journal!
As a Max Planck scientist you have access to more than 650.000 scientific eBooks, over 300 research databases and more than 15.000 journals!This is possible through our service “MPDL Access Magic”. Learn more how access to electronic content is provided for, how you can get access to all licensed electronic resources from everywhere and at any time or find out more about professional MPG services to locate your specific literature. For more information follow the link below.
MPDL Campus Magic
Seamless access to all licensed journals for your research
With the "MPDL Campus Magic" services we ensure, that MPG researchers have seamless access to all licensed information directly through google and publisher web sites. We accomplish that articles and eBooks can be downloaded without any bothering login or paywall experiences - so that you can focus on your research.We verify authorized IP address ranges across MPG's IT infrastructure and configure over one hundred publisher website systems to recognize the IP addresses of all Max Planck campuses.
IP Address ranges are reconciled with publishers, providers, MPG libraries and IT departments via the SESAM IRMA system, where the authorized ranges can be downloaded in various formats, for transparency on authorized ranges. Following the following link to show current authorized IP ranges.
MPDL Travel Magic
Read articles & eBooks from everywhere at any time.
To support off-site access, e.g. from home or mobile devices, we have created "MPDL Travel Magic", a pre-configured service subsystem that can be enabled by the MPI's IT departments. This requires a single log-in at your institute to initiate the access magic to all licensed eBooks and journals from anywhere. Subsystem and configuration of this system are provided by MPDL. For more information follow the link below.MPG Citation Linker
Have reference? Get context!
MPG Citation Linker can help you with your partial or complete reference information to locate the full text or other services. It offers a direct route without having to perform searches in library catalogs or other database systems. Simply type in the bibliographic information that you have at hand.MPDL maintains this service as an additional access channel to research papers and keeps it synchronized with the MPG information portfolio.
MPG City Service
Get the contact that you need
Looking for central support with IT and information services? Lost in MPG's organizational complexity?MPG City Service is a Hotline service that guides you to the right contact in the right central organization of MPG to support you with your specific "digital" problem. Give us your name, your institute and a very short description of your digital challenge. We will find the right person to talk to across MPG's central organizations and have her or him contact you.
MPG City Service is provided by MPDL.
MPG.eBooks
Locate and read your choice of eBooks
MPDL offers a complete and continuously updated reference of most MPG-licensed eBooks on a by-title basis. The database can be searched via a simple search slot or by using expert search functionalities. The result list of each search is relevance-ranked and can easily be refined. Every listed item includes a direct download link to the identified eBook.MPG.PuRe
Display MPG's publication output to the world
MPG.PuRe is the institutional publication repository of the Max Planck Society (MPG). The Max Planck Institutes use this application to make bibliographic data of their academic publications (title, author, publisher etc.) accessible to the public. In addition, it supports Green Open Access and provides a possibility to upload full-texts or supplementary material (e.g. PDF, Excel).The visibility of stored data is raised by automatic search engine indexation. Interfaces enable multiple re-use options, e.g. for various websites, reports, blogs or the MPG yearbook.
MPG.PuRe is a central service provided by the MPDL. It is based on the open source software PubMan, which is undergoing continuous development and improvement by the MPDL.
Since 2008 MPG.PuRe is gradually replacing its predecessor system eDoc as institutional repository of the MPG.
MPG.ReNa
Find the database you need
collection as well as your own institute‘s resources.MPG/SFX
Your bridge to full text PDF
MPG/SFX is your button to download the requested article's full text PDF. It takes you from your search results directly to the article on the publisher's website. You will find the MPG/SFX button in databases like Web of Science, Scopus or on many other platforms.MPDL maintains this link resolving service and constantly feeds it with the most recent developments in the MPG information portfolio.
Open Access Gold Publishing
Ready-to-go Open Access Journals
To make Open Access Publishing comfortable for MPG researchers, MPDL has pre-negotiated terms and conditions for hundreds of Open Access Journals. MPDL takes also care of the payment of article processing charges, when you submit to one of these journals.In order to organize thousands of article processing charge bills and payments, MPDL drives the ESAC initiative under which academic organizations, publishers and funders work together to create appropriate standards and infrastructures.
Follow the link to the list of central agreements with open Access publishers.
Open Access Support
One stop shop for Open Access questions
Open Access Support is your contact point for all questions related to Open Access. If you are a Max Planck researcher you may want to obtain information on how the Max Planck Society supports Open Access, for instance to help you with your copyright concerns or with handling Open Access article charges. So please contact us!Please note: Librarians at the Max Planck Institutes also work on Open Access and may want to support you locally at your institute.
PubMan
Present your publication data to the world
PubMan is a repository software which is being developed and made available by MPDL. It supports research organizations managing, disseminating and re-using publications and supplementary materials. This solution addresses all disciplines and focuses on the target groups researchers, local librarians and local IT. Due to the heterogeneous policies, cultures and workflows of the Max Planck Institutes, customization and configuration options throughout the solution features are of major importance. Being open source, it is freely available to interested persons or institutions all around the world.MPG.PuRe, the institutional repository of the MPG, is using PubMan as underlying software.
MPDL also provides a special PubMan plugin for the established open source content management software (CMS) WordPress. The Plugin is freely available and enables the simple integration of publication data stored in a PubMan repository within local websites. For additional information please see our PubMan plugin test-page.
Follow the link to the PubMan Software homepage
RDMO for MPG
Organize your Data Management
The "RDMO for MPG" service supports the organisation and writing of data management plans for various funding organisations. Using the RDMO software, DMPs can be written both more quickly and with other scientists. At the same time, the plans can be updated throughout the various project phases and possibly forwarded to funding bodies.Reference Works and Handbooks
Need to look up a technical term? Find it!
With about 50 different electronic dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals or other reference works MPDL enables researchers to look up standard definitions and technical terms in all academic fields.Key reference works are covered in the natural sciences (e.g., Springer Materials, Römpp Online) as well as in the social sciences and humanities (e.g., Oxford Reference Online) or key interdisciplinary reference works (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style, Oxford English Dictionary).
MPDL bundles the needs and organizes licensing, financing and access through the MPDL Access Magic services.
Reporting and Statistical Analyses
Evidence based decision making
MPDL creates custom reports for specific decision making processes concerning the MPG information environment. Based on comprehensive and multi-variant approaches, we identify and collect target-specific financial, usage and structural information, analyze the data and visualize the results. As a result, insights are created into researcher information preferences, publisher relevance, information usage patterns and cost effectiveness.Research Data Management Support
Make the most out of your data
The MPDL offers advice and support in research data management. We help creating data management plans for project proposals, we have competency in metadata standards needed for the long-term archival of research data and we assist in converting data to commonly accepted formats. We support researchers in finding suitable data repositories and offer possibilities to store research data in a nicely presented, citable and reusable way.Research Funding Information
Enlarge your funding base
Are you looking for your next research funding?MPDL provides you with access to up-to-date research funding information through dedicated databases. These comprehensive tools contain information on funding opportunities and many related news items.
RIO
Sound bibliometric data for sound assessments
The Research Information Observatory (RIO) aims at establishing a technical and operational framework for large bibliographic datasets and other forms of citation intelligence in order to support subject specialists in the MPG to perform their bibliometric analyses and research assessments.MPDL provides an easy to use interface to the processed bibliometric data and is responsible for the operation of the framework including the necessary documentation. Developed together with a core group of MPG subject specialists, the project is currently building up.
Scientific Journals
Read your favorite journals
With our service, we provide access to more than 15,000 research journals. MPG researchers can read and download all journal articles directly on/from the publishers' websites. To locate specific articles, simply use google scholar, services like PubMed or Web of Science, or the publisher's website.Librarians can find journals by title in the EZB Journal Library and by publisher specific journal packages in MPG.ReNa
Negotiating with about 100 commercial and society publishers worldwide, MPDL organizes licensing, financing and access through the MPDL Access Magic services.
SCOAP3
Converting subscription journals to open access
SCOAP3 - the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics - is a global group of partners led and organized by CERN with the objective to convert the articles in existing high-energy physics (HEP) journals from their previous subscription-based model to open access. From 2014 on, after several years of preparation and consultation, SCOAP3 is centrally paying publishers for the costs involved in providing open access, thus removing any existing financial barrier for authors. The participating publishers in turn reduce the subscription fees to their customers, who contribute to SCOAP3. On behalf of the Max Planck Society, MPDL manages MPG's SCOAP3 engagements.Software Development
Realize your scientific application with us
Since its foundation, MPDL works together with partners from the institutes and from outside the MPG to plan, specifiy, design, implement and manage software development projects. Having a main focus on data-centric web applications (visualizing, sharing, publishing, archiving data), MPDL has its strengths in project management, software quality assurance and user interface optimisation, in web browsers as well as on mobile devices (including mobile apps). We use all common web and coding technologies and have outstanding expertise in database, file system, workflow, authentication/authorization, and transformation technologies.Software Licensing Service
Simplify Software Licensing
Software licensing should be more convenient for all Max Planck Institutes and MPG-facilities. For this reason, MPDL received the job of creating an MPG-wide, institutionalized basic supply of software and online services, similar to the “Grundversorgung” for information resources. The SoLi team organizes the cross-institute software procurement and is, therefore, your central point of contact for questions relating to the basic supply of software and online services. Get in touch with the SoLi team for all questions around our basic software supply!Staging VuFind
Give your information a better show
MPDL coordinates architectural and project planning for VuFind introductions at institute libraries. We support interface development and cross-system integration, and help contracting and coordinating our hosting partner.VuFind is a portal software to search and browse through all relevant library resources (e.g. library catalog, MPG e-Books-catalog, article data, electronic journals). The interface is easy-to-use and enhanced with many features (e.g. relevance ranking, faceting, auto suggest) to speed up and support the process of searching. VuFind is open source.
The VuFind instances for Max Planck Institutes are hosted by our service partner Verbundzentrale Göttingen.
Standards and Norms
Ensure standard compliance
To guarantee standard conformity IT departments, administration offices and laboratories need access to the latest version of standardization rules (ISO or DIN). Therefore, the MPDL offers a simple way to order the standards you need. The full acquisition process will be handled by the MPDL. Just give the details of the document you need to your library or acquisitions department and together we will take care of the rest- including the costs. MPDL will provide you with the standard’s full text and guarantees Max Planck wide perpetual access to the document. Every purchased norm can be found in our access systems MPG.eBooks and MPG.ReNa for future reference.
Please note that this service only includes original standard documents- no handbooks or textbooks. For any additional material please contact your local library.
XNAT - OpenBILD
Exchange brain information
XNAT - OpenBILD is a joint platform of three Max Planck Institutes focusing on human brain related research. It is based on the XNAT software platform that facilitates exchange of patient files, brain images MRT scans and other research data. XNAT is open source software developed by an open community. MPDL supports modification, debugging and installation of the XNAT software as needed by the Max Planck institutes.ZFN
Turn early Max Planck scientific publications open access
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung is a peer-reviewed annually academic journal which was established by scientists from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1946. It publishes original German-language research manuscripts from the fields of chemistry, physics, and the biosciences with emphasis on original research papers.The ZFN Backfile Hosting is a shared project with the publisher Zeitschrift für Naturforschung and the MPDL, which digitized and published the backfiles of the journal from 1946 to 2001 online as Open-Access on a separate platform. The collection consists of about 180.000 pages.
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