eDoc server

The eDoc server is the institutional repository of the Max Planck Society and a platform for making documents accessible in the context of Open Access . It is used by institutes and scientists of the Max Planck Society to record the scientific publications of the institutes or individuals. With a little over 157,000 data records, the eDoc server is the third largest repository in Germany.

The first prototype of the software was programmed by the Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management and the Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG in November 2001. There are 20 library “genre types” for the individual publication genres for input on eDoc. The server has been operated by the Max Planck Digital Library since 2007 .

The value and benefits of the eDoc server are controversial. Rafael Ball from Forschungszentrum Jülich criticized in 2004 “that this server is obviously less about professionally prepared and structured scientific information than about a public relations tool of the MPG. In fact, you can find a multitude of different information side by side on this server [...] ”.

Individual evidence

^ Registry of Open Access Directories, German servers
↑ Uta Siebeky: On the Green Road to Open Access. A practical report from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Wissenschaftsforschung 2007, page 126 (PDF; 268 kB) @1@ 2

↑ Rafael Ball: Open Access - The Revolution in Scientific Publishing? ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Bekavac, Bernard; Herget, Josef; Rittberger, Marc (ed.): Information between culture and market economy. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium for Information Science (ISI 2004), Chur, 6. – 8. October 2004. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2004. S. 413–432 (PDF; 284 kB) @1@ 2

Web links

Homepage of the eDoc server
Article about the eDoc server and Open Access in the MPG on Archiv Today
Gerhard Beier: eDoc - edoc.mpg.de: The electronic document server of a multi-disciplinary research organization , in: History and New Media in Research, Archives, Libraries and Museums, Volume 7 (2005) ISBN 3-8600-4198-3
Gerhard Beier, Theresa Velden: The eDoc-Server Project: Building an Institutional Repository for the Max Planck Society, in: HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 9 / February 2004

[1] Registry of Open Access Directories, German servers

[2] Uta Siebeky: On the Green Road to Open Access. A practical report from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Wissenschaftsforschung 2007, page 126 (PDF; 268 kB) @1@ 2

[3] Rafael Ball: Open Access - The Revolution in Scientific Publishing? ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Bekavac, Bernard; Herget, Josef; Rittberger, Marc (ed.): Information between culture and market economy. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium for Information Science (ISI 2004), Chur, 6. – 8. October 2004. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2004. S. 413–432 (PDF; 284 kB) @1@ 2