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Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are available for persons, institutions and objects and make the research process more transparently. Most of you know DOI for publications or ORCID for scientits. But there are many more. Get to know them and how they can help you.

May 27, 2026
Since research output is used to train generative AI tools as well, authors who have licensed their publications with CC-BY so far, seek to choose more restrictive licenses. But does a more restrictive license stop AI from using your work? more

February 12, 2026 
Profit from the infrastructure of MPS and publish your data easily open access. The focus will be on the advantages and the worfklow. more

July 2, 2025 - ONLINE
Get answers to the following questions: What is important to know? Where do I have to focus on? Can I reuse already published articles? And what is about the not yet published ones? more

February 19, 2025
Learn why it is necessary that your publication is added to the Institutional Publication Repository MPG.PuRe and how you can profit from the Publication Services at MPI. more

September 18, 2024
Get an overview of helpful tools provided by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) which will help you to handle, store or publish your data and to fulfill the archiving regulations of the MPS as well as the German Research Foundation DFG to ensure “Good Scientific Practice” more

June 26, 2024
Open Access Publications are often financed by Article Processing Charges (APCs), paid by the author or institution. Get to know where you can get the money. more

April 10, 2024
There is no single checklist for determing if a publisher or journal is predatory. Learn, which common qualities and features are shared by reputable publishers and journals. more

November 29, 2023
Get a short introduction to a recommender system for quality-assured open access journals. more

September 20, 2023
Get an up-to-date overview on different research funders guidelines. more

July 12, 2023
Learn how to store your research data within MPS environment and how to create citable research objects.
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February 22, 2023
Learn how you can publish open access at no additional costs and what you should consider. more

October 5, 2022
Learn where you can search for research data and why you should reuse them more

June 22, 2022
Understand the Creative Commons Licenses and learn how to use them more

September 23, 2020
Get an overview for nation wide open access publishing agreements in Germany. more

June 10, 2020
Learn more about MPG.PuRe and why it is important to add your MPI publication to the institutional repository of the MPS. more

May 13, 2020
Learn how to decide wether you can trust a publisher, a journal or a conference organizer more

February 5, 2020
kinds & sources of research data, research data life cycle, FAIR principles, research data publication, research data storage at MPI Magdeburg more