1. Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) Supporting the scientific information workflow within the Max Planck Society
Malte Dreyer

2. The Max Planck Society (MPG – Max-Planck Gesellschaft)
78 institutes
265 directors, 4000 PhDs, 4000 PhD students
30 locations
18 Nobel prizes in the last 50 years
near the or at the top in many fields
intense cooperation with universities

3. Locations distributed organization
cooperation between different locations is very common
locations outside Germany are not shown (Nijmegen, Florence, Rome, …)

4. Fields diverse set of fields not a broad as many universities
Chemistry, Physics, Technology
Biology, Medicine, Brain Science
Law, Art, History, Cognition
not a broad as many universities
but more interdisciplinary

5. Max Planck Digital Library MPDL
Founded in 2007
Head: Laurent Romary
Departments
Information Provision
Research and Development
Open Access
Complemented by activities in many institutes
Close cooperation MPDL --- Institutes
Link to eResearch activities outside MPG
FIZ, Göttingen, Humboldt, DFG, DANS, NIMS, …

6. Information Provision: Journal coverage
+42,3%
+19,4%
Access to content in 2007
3.5 million full-text downloads
(cf. 3.0 million database searches)
Very large electronic journal collection – also on international scale
Vast growth rate; even accelerated since MPDL foundation

7. Supporting Open Access Publications
Agreements
Copernicus (Geoscience)
Springer “Open Choice”
BioMed Central
New Journal of Physics
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
In preparation
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)

8. eDoc Institutional Repository of MPG Helpdesk, Training, Workshops
~ References
~ Own Publications p.a.
1/3 including fulltext
Growth of 47% in 2007
40% of fulltexts Open Access

9. Living Reviews 1998: Living Reviews in Relativity
2004: Living Reviews in Solar Physics
2006: Living Reviews in European Governance
2007: Living Reviews in Landscape Research
Living Reviews in Astronomy in Preparation
2008: 10 years Living Reviews in Open Access Journals
Evolution towards “Living Sources” for peer reviewed research data
“Living Sources in Linguistics”

10. Our research infrastructure must match the research ambitions

11. Use of information technology for enhancing research
eResearch =
Use of information technology
for enhancing research
Kurt Mehlhorn, VP, MPG

12. MPDL and eSciDoc
Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) is central unit for eResearch infrastructure
The axes:
Information provision (journals and data bases)
Information dissemination and open access
Research tools
eSciDoc is our main project for
Axes 2: Publication Management
Axes 3: Scholarly Workbench
Open Source
Growing Community
considerable eResearch activities in the institutes (virtual observatory, intelligent search engines, …)

13. Collaboration Continuum of Data Idea Exploration Data Acquisition
Experiment
Aggregation
Analysis
Publication
Archiving
eSciDoc Solutions, services, and existing tools
eSciDoc Infrastructure
Continuum of Data

14. Collaboration Continuum of Data Idea Exploration Data Acquisition
Experiment
Aggregation
Analysis
Publication
Archiving
eSciDoc Solutions, services, and existing tools
eSciDoc Infrastructure
Continuum of Data

16. Research Data – Figures for Publication

17. Collaboration Continuum of Data Idea Exploration Data Acquisition
Experiment
Aggregation
Analysis
Publication
Archiving
eSciDoc Solutions, services, and existing tools
eSciDoc Infrastructure
Continuum of Data

19. Collaboration Continuum of Data Idea Exploration Data Acquisition
Experiment
Aggregation
Analysis
Publication
Archiving
eSciDoc Solutions, services, and existing tools
eSciDoc Infrastructure
Continuum of Data

20. Other Resarch Data Radio X-Ray Optical John Hibbard
NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Fabbiano et al.

21. Research Data – Primary Data

22. Collaboration Continuum of Data Idea Exploration Data Acquisition
Experiment
Aggregation
Analysis
Publication
Archiving
eSciDoc Solutions, services, and existing tools
eSciDoc Infrastructure
Continuum of Data

23. Research Data – Analysis Data

24. Example of a Network of Interrelated Objects
Metadata
Annotation
Transcription
Metadata
Translation
Metadata
Annotation
© Institut Catholique, Paris, France

25. eSciDoc Outside View
First Releases available for Download at escidoc.org
Established Open Source License -> CDDL and CC-by
eSciDoc Days 9./10. June 2008 in Berlin
Starting External Community Building
> 100 Participants
External Vital Interest
HU-Berlin, Germany
DANS, Netherlands
NIMS, Japan
GBV, Göttingen, Germany
King’s College, UK
GFZ Potsdam, Germany

26. Thank You for the Attention !
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Thank You for the Attention !