Here you can find some materials elaborated by the PhDnet: Open Science Working Group, official statements by the Max Planck Society, support offered by the Max Planck Digital Library, as well as some useful links to general open science information.
Position of the Max Planck Society regarding Open Science:
“The concept of Open Access is realised in practice through centralised strategic decisions, such as the creation of a central budget for subscription and Open Access publication charges, and a large number of corresponding projects. For instance, the Max Planck Society is involved in projects that promote the reconfiguration of science publishing to enable Open Access.”
Open Access support through MPDL:
Consult here the Open Access Publishing agreements between the Max Planck Society and scientific journals. Max Planck affiliated corresponding autors can be subject to a reduction in Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Publishing OS in the MPS
Use the early career researcher OS guide to navigate through the OS publishing opportunities offered by the MPG. Click here to download.
2019 survey results
Following the success of the second Open Access Ambassadors meeting in 2019, the PhDnet Open Science Workgroup organized a survey on Open Science topics targeted to all the doctoral researchers in the MPG. As the group’s focus grew beyond Open Access, survey questions included topics related to more general Open Science practices, such as Open Data, pre-registration, registered reports, and replication studies. The results of the survey revealed PhDs had a great interest in such practices, but very limited knowledge in most topics. You can find the article published in Frontiers here.
Discussion Paper
Check out the recommendations made by the PhDnet: Open Science Workgroup as strategies to push the top-bottom implementation of Open Science in the Max Planck Society here!
MPDL recommends always choosing the open CC-BY license when publishing articles!
“While authors have traditionally transferred all rights over their works to publishers, under the CC-BY license authors keep the right to re-use their own work and freely and legally share their published articles. “
Links to information on Open Science
