Library News

March 8, 2024
Am 20.03.2024 findet von 14 - 15 Uhr über BigBlueButton ein Vortrag statt, in dem u.a. Fragen zu urheberrechtlichen Aspekten erläutert werden. more

February 9, 2024
From February 12 to 16, 2024 this year´s international awareness week for data will provide you with lots of interesting events! more

October 26,2023
“That´s all you need to know: Open Access Publishing at MPI Magdeburg” Kristina Reinhold, MPI Library, will give a talk on how MPS can give you financial support and how MPI Library can support you.

October 25, 2023
In den Ingenieurwissenschaften spielen Konferenzbeiträge eine wichtige Rolle bei der Kommunikation neuer Forschungsergebnisse. Welche Rechte und Möglichkeiten haben Autor:innen, ihre Beiträge frei zugänglich zu veröffentlichen? Webinar - Registration required more

October 20,2023
“The DEAL is there - what now?” Jan Heiland, Scientist MPI CSC Group will talk about the new DEAL Contract with Elsevier.

October 12, 2023
SciFlow is an authoring platform which supports researcher to write, improve and format their academic texts. In this webinar the focus will be on understanding templates, collaboration with co-workers as well as showcasing new features. Registration is required. more

September 22, 2023
On September 6, 2023 a 5 years contract between the DEAL Consortium and Elsevier was concluded. The contract indcludes access to all journals of Elsevier as well as the possibility to publish open access in nearly all Elsevier journals. more

August 30, 2023
Preprint Citation Index is a multidisciplinary collection of preprints from a wide range of leading repositories, including arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv, and Preprints.org. Within the Web of Science platform researchers can thus discover preprint records alongside peer-reviewed journal articles and other content sets. This simplifies the process of evaluating preprint quality and trustworthiness by connecting preprints to the versions of record or linking to other scholarly output from preprint authors and the citation network in Web of Science. Feel free to test them now.
 

August 4, 2023
The integration between ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global with the Web of Science enables seamless discovery of early career, post-graduate research from all around the world, alongside records for journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, preprints, patents, and more. Here you can take a look at the new index in Web of Science
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June 23, 2023
Topic of the next online Coffee Lecture will be “EDMOND - the open data repository of MPS” more

21. März 2023
Auf welche Selektions- und Qualitätskriterien muss man achten, wie funktioniert der B!ISON Journal Recommender und welche anderen Möglichkeiten hat man, um passende Zeitschriften zu finden?   more

February 7, 2023
From February 13 to 17, 2023 this year´s international awareness week for data will provide you with lots of interesting events!
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February 1, 2023
Topic of the next online Coffee Lecture will be “Publishing green open access - what should I do?” more

October 27, 2022
On November 3, 11:00 a.m. & November 22, 2:00 p.m. there will be a webinar “ Intro to SciFlow and new collaboration features - How researchers from Max Planck can collaborate on a publication with any researcher worldwide”.
Registration is required. more

August 2, 2022
Alle Interessierten innerhalb der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ein, sich über diese vielfältigen Entwicklungen im Forschungsdatenmanagement auszutauschen more

June 3, 2022
As of June, 2022 SciFinder-n is available to all employees within the Max Planck Society.
SciFinder-n is the most comprehensive database for coverage of chemistry and chemical engineering. It has the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. more

May 30, 2022
VDE is one of the leading publishers of the German standards collection and offers electrotechnical safety standards. The NormenBibliothek standard portal provides online access to the entire DIN-VDE standard portfolio. more

MPDL has signed a new contract with Springer Nature to support OA Book Publishing. Authors affiliated with MPI will get a discount on the BPC (Book Processing Charge). more

EDMOND is the Open Research Data Repository of the Max Planck Society. To introduce new features MPDL will offer two virtual tutorials of 30 minutes with a short presentation, a live demonstration, and questions & answers. more

The workshop provides new opportunities to learn about best practices in scientific software development, like:

• Seeing recent flagship projects in action.
• Discussing software licensing and intellectual property issues.
• Discovering new ways to make your software known and recognized

The workshop will be held in hybrid form, so you will be able to connect remotely or come to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön. more

We have the pleasure to invite you for the first online course "Scopus Training for Starters" specially organized for our institute.
Scopus is one of the largest abstract and citation databases for peer-reviewed literature.
In this course from February 8th, 2022 at 3:00 pm- 4:00 pm, Eva Podgoršek, digital media specialist at Elsevier, will present you Scopus Basics.
If you are a new user of Scopus, or if you are a casual user who needs a refresher, this session is for you. So we would be glad if you could join and participate. This zoom training will be held in English.
If you cannot join the session, register anyway. The session will be recorded, and all registrants will get a follow up email with the recording link.
To save your seat, please register under "more".
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RDMO for MPG is a free service of the Max Planck Digital Library for all Max Planck staff. The Research Data Management Organiser Software, RDMO, is used for this purpose.
Virtual tutorials will take place in January & February 2022. You will find the schedules & access infos in the LIBRARY INFO email to mpimit. more

It´s Quiztime: Check your knowledge on Open Access! more

Preprints: Forschungsergebnisse schnell und offen kommunizieren
(Dr. Stefan Schmeja, TIB) more

Where does the money come from?: How to finance Open Access Publishing
(Kristina Reinhold, MPI Library) more

Open Access Publishing - Zooming in on Copyright and CC Licenses
(Dr. Christoph Bruch, Helmholtz Open Science Office) more

LIVE Helpdesk: Your questions are welcome! You ask - we answer!
(Kristina Reinhold, MPI Library) more

Open Access Info Snacks: Choose a short videoclip on different topics regarding Open Access Publishing
(TIB AV-Portal / open-access.network) more

You would like to publish Open Access and don´t know how?: MPI Library support on Open Access Publishing
(Kristina Reinhold, MPI Library) more

Understanding the Idea of Open Access : Basic Knowledge of the transition from closed to Open Access
(Kristina Reinhold, MPI Library) more

October 13, 2021
MPDL is organizing this interesting online event over two half days. A main topic will be the relationship between Open Science and Good Scientific Practice. more

October 12, 2021
PhDnet in collaboration with the Max Planck Digital Library are relaunching the Open Access Ambassadors program under the new name Open Science Ambassadors (OSA). more

September 20, 2021
MPDL is organizing this interesting online event over two half days. A main topic will be the relationship between Open Science and Good Scientific Practice. more

September 17, 2021
Open for all employees of the MPS - Sharing experience with ELNs, best-practice workflows etc.... more

August 24,2021
The Passport For Open Science is a guide designed to accompany PhD students at every step of their research career, whatever their disciplinary field. It provides a set of tools and good practices that can be directly implemented. more

July 12, 2021
Open for all employees of the MPS - Sharing experience with ELNs, best-practice workflows etc.... more

July 9, 2021
On wednesdays at 1 p.m. until october there will be a talk
with latest information on Open Science best practice, tools, platforms, and regulations. more

June 22, 2021
The MPS has signed an agreement with CUP for publishing open access monographs. The agreement is valid between May 1, 2021 and December 31, 2023. There are a couple of conditions which must be met. more

March 4, 2021
This workshop will be held online (mostly in german) on May 5 and May 6. Registration is required. more

January 7, 2021
CAS has extended access to SciFinder-n due to COVID-19. Please feel free to use SciFinder-n instead of or in addition to SciFinder.
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