Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)

The Max Planck Digital Library is pleased to announce its participation in TIB’s new KOALA Mathematics bundle for the funding period 2026-2028.

Following MPDL’s contribution to the Computer Science & Mathematics bundle earlier this year, this expanded support demonstrates our continued commitment to open access publishing in mathematics—a field of significant…

« The Max Planck Digital Library is happy to announce its contribution to TIB’s KOALA bundle for computer science and mathematics from 2025 to 2027: (…) »

« Scientists and scholars, policy-makers and practitioners, students and citizens everywhere have more free access to the latest results of research than ever before, driven largely by institutions negotiating transformative open publishing agreements (TAs) as part of their broader open access strategies. By placing the rights of authors…

« The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) is thrilled to announce the launch of the Max Planck Decentralized Science Initiative “DeSci Connect”. DeSci Connect aims to transform scientific collaboration by embracing principles of openness, transparency, and democratization. Through the integration of Web3 technologies, the initiative fosters secure, transparent, and accountable data…

« OA Switchboard has announced a plugin for PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS), designed to enhance visibility and streamline reporting for diamond open access journals. The development has been made possible by funding from the Max Planck Digital Library. (…) »

« Presentation given in the Open Science Days 2024 organized by the Max Planck Digital Library. (…) »

« The conscious use of research software is becoming increasingly important. The Max Planck Digital Library supports scientists in this. To this end, the MPDL has written an application for software management plans (SMP). It can be used to organize projects with research software in the open-source application

« Delegations of research performing and research funding organizations from 38 nations and six continents, including ministries of education and research, funders, university and research leadership, libraries and national-level library consortia, scientists and scholars, gathered at the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference (B16), held 6-7 June 2023 in Berlin.
The…

« The Open Science Days are periodically organized by the Max Planck Digital Library.
In the context of this conferences we would like to deal with various aspects of a global movement towards a more open and transparent approach to science.
The…

« We are very happy to announce that our new Information Platform on Research Data Management has now gone live. You can reach it at https://rdm.mpdl.mpg.de. There you will find a lot of useful information on research data management in English, including Data Management Plans, repository selection…