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    This page lists MPS projects related to Open Access that have already been completed.

    Kick-off Event for Open Access Week 2009

    Period: October 2009
    MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
    Website: http://www.allianzinitiative.de/de/aktuelles_und_presse/22102009
    The Open Access Working Group in the Alliance of German Science Organisations issues an invitation to attend a podium discussion in Munich to mark the start of International Open Access Week from 19 to 23 October 2009. (…) Representatives of the humanities, the natural sciences and publishing houses will present their respective positions in a series of brief statements and then discuss them with each other and the audience. more

    PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research)

    Period: November 2008 – May 2012
    MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
    Website: www.peerproject.eu
    The aim of PEER is to build a substantial body of evidence, by developing an “observatory†to monitor the effects of systematic archiving over time. Participating publishers will collectively contribute 300 journals to the project and supporting research studies will address issues such as: How large-scale archiving will affect journal viability, Whether it increases access, How it will affect the broader ecology of European research, Which factors influence the readiness to deposit in institutional and disciplinary repositories and what the associated costs might be, Models to illustrate how traditional publishing systems can coexist with self-archiving. [...] more

    SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing)

    Period: March 2009 – February 2011
    MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
    Website: http://project-soap.eu
    The SOAP project aims to deliver to the European Commission, publishers, libraries and research communities a description and analysis of models of open access publishing, so that these key players may ascertain which model, or combination and variation of models, will enable them to make a smooth transition to open access publishing. [...] more