Citation
(2005), "Pilot project to lay the foundations for scientific work of the future", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 33 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2005.12233aab.008
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Pilot project to lay the foundations for scientific work of the future
Another exciting development with clear implications for Open Access publishingFIZ Karlsruhe and Max Planck Society in strategic partnership.
Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2004 – FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) have been awarded funding of 6.1 million Euro to develop a new platform for web-based collaborative scientific work.
The new project – eSciDoc – will be jointly managed by FIZ Karlsruhe and MPS, who have entered into a strategic partnership for the purpose. FIZ Karlsruhe will provide development and IT services, and will operate central services.
The intention is to create an integrated information, communication and publication platform for web-based scientific work so that scientists working in the 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society can collaborate together.
The funding for eSciDoc – which will last for five years – is being provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), under the framework of the German national eScience initiative.
Links to further information: www.zim.mpg.de and www.dl-forum.de (Open Access).
Source: Press release – FIZ Karlsruhe 1 October 2004.