Approaching the Open Access Format for

Book Publications in the Max Planck Society

Dr. Ralf SchimmerMax Planck Digital LibraryMunich, Germany

Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences ConferenceLondon, 2nd July 2013

80 Institutes in 3 Sections:ChemPhysTech

Biomedical Humanities & Social Sciences

Highly distributed organization 74 local libraries & MPDL as central service unit Budget 1.5 Bill. EUR (public funding)Staff 17,000 Total Employees

5,500 Researchers large number of visiting scholars

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is an independent, non-profit research organization - basic research- dedicated to scientific excellence

The Max Planck Society

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Starting from a growing expression of need, the Max Planck Society wants to establish a framework for supporting the Open Access monograph publishing. First steps have already been taken. The goal is a sustainable and scalable service infrastructure.

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MPG institutional dimensions in supporting OA monographs

Motivation

Guiding principles

Publishercollaboration

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Starting from a growing expression of need, the Max Planck Society wants to establish a framework for supporting the Open Access monograph publishing. First steps have already been taken. The goal is a sustainable and scalable service infrastructure.

MPG institutional dimensions in supporting OA monographs

Clear and growing expressions of interest in OA monographs– cf. immediate reactions after Springer trial announcement 2008

Particularly from HSS researchers Tendency at HSS MPIs to establish local publication support service

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Motivation

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Starting from a growing expression of need, the Max Planck Society wants to establish a framework for supporting the Open Access monograph publishing. First steps have already been taken. The goal is a sustainable and scalable service infrastructure.

MPG institutional dimensions in supporting OA monographs

Clear and growing expressions of interest in OA monographs– cf. immediate reactions after Springer trial announcement 2008

Particularly from HSS researchers Tendency at HSS MPIs to establish local publication support service

units

Motivation

Guiding principles

Building on journal experience, but with awareness to differences, we want to establish a support infrastructure also for OA monographs

Essential part of our evolving digital library service portfolio Early stage: Still experimenting & developing our concepts

– Coverage & distribution of costs; workflows; author agreements

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Starting from a growing expression of need, the Max Planck Society wants to establish a framework for supporting the Open Access monograph publishing. First steps have already been taken. The goal is a sustainable and scalable service infrastructure.

MPG institutional dimensions in supporting OA monographs

Clear and growing expressions of interest in OA monographs– cf. immediate reactions after Springer trial announcement 2008

Particularly from HSS researchers Tendency at HSS MPIs to establish local publication support service

units

Motivation

Guiding principles

Publishercollaboration

Building on journal experience, but with awareness to differences, we want to establish a support infrastructure also for OA monographs

Essential part of our evolving digital library service portfolio Early stage: Still experimenting & developing our concepts

– Coverage & distribution of costs; workflows; author agreements

Most tangible results so far: framework agreements with publishers– Collaboration with De Gruyter already announced– Some others in preparation

To be noted: No central funding scheme in place yet Edition Open Access as important exercise in OA monograph self-

publishing

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An important symbolic and practical step towards establishing a service infrastructure for the publishing books in Open Access.

News on MPG/de Gruyter framework agreement (24 Jan 2013)

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The Max Planck Digital Library accompanied the discussions between DE Gruyter and the SHARE group at MPI Social Law and Social Policy in order to extraxt framework agreement for the Max Planck Society.

Result of a 2-year and 3-party publishing project

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A community initative by a group of Max Planck Society research directors and their associates.

MPG self-publishing:Edition Open Access

http://www.edition-open-access.de/ 2 July 2013