2025

• 03/2025

  Digital Change 2025

  31. März - 02. April 2025 | Kloster Seeon

  

  Die Anmeldung für das Digital Change 2025 ist ab jetzt geöffnet! Vom 31. März bis 2. April 2025 treffen sich im Kloster Seeon Expert*innen aus Forschungskoordination, Wissenschaftsmanagement und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der MPG, um die Zukunft der Wissenschaft zu gestalten. Die thematische Vielfalt des Symposiums reicht von KI am Arbeitsplatz über digitale Tools und Kommunikation bis hin zu Open Science @ MPG und effektivem Forschungsdatenmanagement. Sichern Sie sich jetzt Ihren Platz und bleiben Sie für weitere Aktualisierungen auf dem Laufenden!

  Weitere Infos:

  Digital Change Webseite

  Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an das Digital Change Team.

   
• 01/2025

  17th Berlin Open Access Conference: From Transformation to Collective Responsibility

  February 5-6, 2025 | Harnack House Berlin

  

  On 5–6 February 2025, the OA2020 Initiative, coordinated by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) on behalf of the Max Planck Society, will host the 17th Berlin Open Access Conference (B17), Moving OA Forward: From Transformation to Collective Responsibility at Harnack House, Berlin.

  
  Continuing the Society’s leadership in making research openly accessible for the benefit of science and society, B17 will bring together negotiators and institutional leaders from over 40 countries to chart the next phase of the global open access transition in science communication. Thanks to MPDL’s leadership, over 90% of research from its institutes is now published openly, demonstrating open access negotiations as a viable open access pathway for the global community. Yet, while transformative open access agreements negotiated by institutions around the world have unlocked millions of research articles, many challenges remain. In particular, ensuring that all authors, regardless of their financial background, can publish based solely on the quality of their work—without encountering financial barriers—is a critical task. In an era where AI technologies are rapidly reshaping science communication, preserving author rights and ensuring publishing integrity also remains a core challenge.

  
  Co-chaired by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pöschl (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz) and Prof. Dr. Gerard Meijer (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin), B17 will provide a platform for negotiators to align around shared principles and priorities, defining concrete actions that will drive the open access movement forward and strengthening foundations for a truly open science ecosystem.

  
  Stay tuned for the conference outcomes, shared globally with the research community.

  More info:
  

  17th Berlin Open Access Conference Website

2024

• 09/2024

  Open Science Ambassadors Meeting 2024

  06. - 07. November 2024 I Harnack-Haus Berlin

  

  Die Max Planck Digital Library lädt herzlich zur Teilnahme am Open Science Ambassadors Meeting 2024 ein.

  Weitere Infos:

  Open Science Ambassadors Meeting 2024 Website
• 09/2024

  25 Jahre Literatur-Grundversorgung

  24. Oktober 2024 I München

  

  Die Max Planck Digital Library feiert 25 Jahre Literatur-Grundversorgung am 24. Oktober 2024. Ein Vierteljahrhundert, in dem die MPDL die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft mit unverzichtbaren Ressourcen unterstützt hat.
  Heute verwaltet die zentrale Grundversorgung über 200 Lizenzen und bietet den Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschafltern sowie den Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zugang zu

  • mehr als 17.000 Peer-Reviewed-Zeitschriften und
  • 900.000 E-Books

  Seit der Einführung der Literatur-Grundversorgung ist die MPDL zu einem der größten Beschaffer digitaler Informationsressourcen in Deutschland.gewachsen, was die MPG in ihrer Führungsrolle in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung stärkt.
• 07/2024

  Open Science Summer School

  9. - 12. September 2024 I MPDL München

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Die Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) und das LMU Open Science Center veranstalten eine 5-tägige Open Science Summer School, um Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen aller Fachrichtungen die Möglichkeit zu eröffnen, mehr Vertrauen in ihre Forschung zu gewinnen und diese in den Augen anderer Expert*innen, der Öffentlichkeit und der Förderorganisationen so glaubwürdig, reproduzierbar und transparent wie möglich zu gestalten. Die Summer School besteht aus öffentlichen Vorträgen und praktischen Workshops für ausgewählte Partizipierende. Der Präsenzteil der Summer School findet in der MPDL statt. Der Online-Teil ist über Zoom abrufbar.

  Weitere Informationen:
  OSIP-Website
  Program
• 01/2024

  Open Science Days 2024

  January 29-30, 2024 I Harnack House Berlin

  

  The Max Planck Digital Library cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2024.

  Following the move to purely virtual realms in 2021, this time we will return, at least in part, to the familiar and also proven form of face-to-face meetings:

  The conference will be held as a hybrid meeting, with the attendance part again taking place at the Harnack House in Berlin. It is going to extend over one and a half days (January 29/30), with the whole day being Monday.

  Similar to what we did at the last conference, we will not focus on one specific aspect of Open Science, but instead look at recent developments across the broad spectrum.

  The conference language will be English.
  Participants will have the opportunity to present their own ideas, experiences, initiatives or activities and to discuss current topics related to Open Science.

  The participation fee is 100€ for on-site attendance and 40€ for digital attendance.

  Program and registration information will be announced in time on the Open Science Days Website.

   

  More info:

  Open Science Day Website

  The Open Science Days will take place at the Harnack House of the Max Planck Society.

2023

• 06/2023

  16th Berlin Open Access Conference: Together for Transformation

  June 6-7, 2023 | Harnack Haus Berlin

  

  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the seminal Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. In the upcoming 16th Berlin Open Access Conference, organized by the OA2020 Initiative and hosted by the Max Planck Society, we will return to the setting where the Berlin Declaration originated. There, we will refine and renew our approaches to achieving the vision for an open information environment in the service of science and society, with a particular focus on transformative agreements (TAs).

  The current growing body of TAs negotiated worldwide—from Peru to Canada, from South Africa to Norway, and from Australia to China—demonstrates that this approach to dismantling the deficiencies and inequities of the subscription-based system in scholarly publishing is both viable and scalable. With the first movers to integrate TAs into their national open access strategies now nearing their goals of open access to 100% of their research outputs and setting their sights on broader open science objectives, the way is paved for the global research community to swiftly forge ahead, together.

  The 16th Berlin Open Access Conference: Together for Transformation, will assemble national-level delegations, including scientists and scholars, senior library, higher education, funder and government leaders from 38 countries around the world. Together, they will assess the performance of scholarly publishers in meeting the objectives and expectations set out by the research community engaged in transformative open access negotiations and formulate collective next steps to shape an open scholarly publishing paradigm in the service of science that is transparent, inclusive, sustainable and financially equitable on a global scale.

  More info:
  

  Outcomes of the conference will be shared with the broader research community on the B16 webpage.