Ongoing Projects
This page contains an alphabetical list of the ongoing projects related to Open Access.
Abruzzen and Molise (”living book”)
Period: April 2009 – ?
MPS project partner: Bibliotheca Hertziana
Website: http://db.biblhertz.it/abruzzo/index.xml
In the wake of the earthquake in Abruzzo on April 6, 2009 it was clear that the standard reference work by Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus would become even more significant and would be consulted frequently in the current situation. (…) Immediately following the earthquake, Bibliotheca Hertziana therefore began the process of digitising the standard reference work (…) (as) a new electronic edition which, in Web 2.0, enables the text published in 1983 to be furnished with additional pictures, up-to-date bibliographies and the latest information on the monuments in Abruzzo. (…) more (in German only)
CARPET (Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology)
Period: October 2008 – September 2010
MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://www.carpet-project.net/en/homepage/
The CARPET project, funded by the German Research Foundation, aims to support the efficient use of tools and services for scientific publishing more
DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities)
Period: September 2008
MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
Website: www.dariah.eu
Just like astronomers require a virtual observatory to study the stars and other distant objects in the galaxy, researchers in the arts and humanities need a digital infrastructure to get access to and join together the information and the knowledge that is embedded in digital content. The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities – DARIAH – will be such an infrastructure with a European dimension. [...] more
ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online)
Period: December 2002
MPS project partner: MPI for the History of Science
Website: http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
The ECHO initiative aims to create an infrastructure to bring cultural heritage on the Internet, and builds up a network of institutions, research projects and other users which provide content and technology for the common infrastructure, with the aim to enrich the “agora” and to create a future Web of Culture and Science. [...] more
Edition Open Access
Period: 2011-
MPS project partner: MPI for the History of Science, Fritz Haber Institute, MPI for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Website: www.edition-open-access.de/
The Edition Open Access is a publication of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge. The Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge comprises three subseries, Studies, Essays and Sources. They present research results and the relevant sources in a new format, combining the advantages of traditional publications and the digital medium. The volumes are available both as printed books and as online open access publications. They present original scientific work submitted under the scholarly responsibility of members of the Scientific Board and their academic peers. [...] more
FACES
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MPS project partner: MPI for Human Development, Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://faces.mpdl.mpg.de/faces/
The FACES software enables to maintain collections of pictures which are usually enriched by attributes or metadata. [...] The main focus of the project – next to the integration of FACES as an online open source solution in the eSciDoc architecture – would be to add new attributes to single pictures in form of standardized metadata (e.g METS) and to implement a user management for different usage rights. [...] more
Language Description Heritage
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MPS project partner: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://ldh.livingsources.org
The goal of the Language Description Heritage (LDH) Open Access Digital Library is to provide easy access to descriptive material about the world’s languages. This collection is being compiled at the Max Planck Society in Germany as an open access digital repository of existing scientific contribution describing the world-wide linguistic diversity, focussing on traditionally difficult to obtain works. [...] more
Living Reviews
Period: 1996
MPS project partner: MPI for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Website: www.livingreviews.org
Living Reviews is a long term project encompassing an electronic journal platform and a group of journals. Living Reviews journals are scientific open access journals, publishing review articles that provide insightful surveys on research progress in the fields they cover, and guiding readers to the most important literature in the field. Its unique concept allows authors to regularly update their articles to incorporate the latest developments in the field. Living Reviews are available online only, enhanced by web features like movies, downloadable source code, or cross-linking to other resources. [...] more
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research)
Period: November 2008 – September 2011
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
Reinhold von Sengbusch Collection
Period: 2008
MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://sengbusch.blogs.mpdl.mpg.de/
The collection comprises the publications of Prof. Dr. Reinhold von Sengbusch. Reinhold Oskar Kurt von Sengbusch (* 16 February 1898 in Riga; †13 June 1985 in Hamburg) was a Director at the Max Planck Institut für Kulturpflanzenzüchtung in Hamburg-Volksdorf and one of the most important breeding researchers of the last century. [...] more
Priority Initiative on “Digital Information” of the Alliance of German Science Organisations
Period: 2008 – 2012
MPS project partner: Max-Planck-Society
Website: www.allianz-initiative.de
Equipping scientists and scholars with the information infrastructure best suited to meeting their research needs is the guiding principle of this priority initiative. In the digital age, this means making publications, primary research data and virtual research and communication spaces available that are digital and, wherever possible, free of charge and accessible without barriers.(…) more
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)
Period: 2006-
MPS project partner: Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://scoap3.org
A consortium facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money. This answers the request of the High Energy Physics community. [...] more
WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures)
Period: April 2008
MPS project partner: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://wals.info
The data and the texts from The World Atlas of Language Structures, published as a book with CD-ROM in 2005 by Oxford University Press, are now freely available online. [...] WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of more than 40 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject). [...] more
VIRR (Virtuellen Raum Reichsrecht)
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MPS project partner: MPI for European Legal History , Max Planck Digital Library
Website: http://virr.mpdl.mpg.de/virr
The aim of the project is to create a digital collection of sources of law and to expand it into a virtual space on imperial law. Important and rare collections and legal texts were digitised in the first step, with the selection of scientific viewpoints being made subsequently. Deeper analysis on the basis of structural data (tables of contents, indices) could in the long term be followed by full texts. (…) more