November 2011
The Max Planck Society and Frontiers Media, an open access publisher based in Switzerland, announced today that they have signed a funding agreement to support scientific authors who submit research papers to all Frontiers journals. Effective November 1, 2011, all publication charges for research articles submitted by authors affiliated with any Max Planck Institute will be directly and fully funded by the Max Planck Society. This institutional agreement is valid for all current and future Frontiers journals.
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Leaders from science, humanities, research, funding, and policy communities will gather for the Berlin conference on November 9 and 10. This ninth installment in the prestigious international series will be the first to be held in North America. It is designed to address the unique considerations of the North-American community in exploring the transformative impact that open, online access to research can have on scholarship, scientific discovery, and the translation of resulting benefits to the public.
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October 2011
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) and the Max Planck Society (MPS) announced today that they have signed an agreement whereby open access publication fees for BQFJ journals articles will be paid directly out of a fund supporting researchers from the Max Planck Institutes.
On 12/10/2011 Mikiko Tanifuji, Head of the Scientific Information Office of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Dr. Frank Sander, Head of MPDL, signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The successful Cooperation, which has existed since 2007 in the further development of the eSciDoc Software-Platform, will be continued for a further five years and thus advance the international distribution of eSciDoc.Both Partners will strengthen their activities in the further development of eSciDoc Applications – in particular PubMan and Imeji. MPDL will support NIMS in the installation and operation of eSciDoc particularly in the area of the specific requirements of e-Research in Japan. Alongside other contributions to the further development of the eScidoc NIMS will work on the customization of eSciDoc for the asian language area and will add to the development of a japanese eSciDoc community. The continual exchange of experience concerning the newest eSciDoc applications will decisively aid the success of the project.
September 2011
Max Planck Society has signed an Open Access agreement with Wiley Blackwell. It applies to Max Planck research papers published in any Wiley Open Access journal. The Open Access publication charges will be processed centrally by the Max Planck Digital Library. This agreement is a next step in Max Planck Society’s overall strategy to give optimal financial and administrative support for the researchers across the Max Planck Institutes in their attempt to find Open Access publishing outlets.
August 2011
Since 2001, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and the open access publishing house Copernicus Publications have been publishing a vast number of well-known geoscience journals, implementing innovative open access fundamentals to achieve the highest standards of transparency and quality along the way. Thereby, the Max Planck Society supported these publishing activities right from the start. The Max Planck Society supports authors affiliated with their institutes by centralized payment of Copernicus publication charges since 2008. “The agreement with Copernicus is a good example for our successful collaborations with many Open Access publishers. It is our aim to support freely-available scientific literature but also to promote the development of innovative concepts for improved quality assurance”, says Dr. Ralf Schimmer from the Max Planck Digital Library after four years of fruitful cooperation.
July 2011
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May 2011
