Read & Publish Agreement with American Physical Society (APS)
Based on the new agreement with the American Physical Society (APS), the costs for open access publications of MPG "initial corresponding authors" with an acceptance date between January 1 and December 31, 2020 will be centrally covered. The Open Access component applies to all APS journals except "Physics" and "Review of Modern Physics".
Moreover, the contract also contains MPG-wide online access to the journals of APS.
Further information can be found via this link:
Information for Max Planck Authors
MPG Agreement with Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
A new MPG-wide contract was concluded with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) with a term from May 1, 2020 to December 31, 2023.
The agreement includes online access to the content of the "ACM Digital Library", with the exception of the "ACM Book Series", as well as the central cost absorption for open access publications of MPG "corresponding authors".
Further information can be found via this link:
Information for Max Planck Authors
Temporary free access to closed publisher collections
- 03. April 2020 (updated 15. April 2020)
In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, many publishers make scholarly content temporarily available free of charge.
This includes:
Cambrige University Press enables access to more than 700 textbooks (until May 31, 2020).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks
De Gruyter provides access to over 75,000 ebooks, which were published between 1658 and 2016 (until June 30, 2020).
https://www.degruyter.com
Elsevier has unlocked 326 textbooks (until June 19, 2020), e.g.:
MIT Press offers many ebooks for free on the platform "Project MUSE" (until June 30, 2020).
https://muse.jhu.edu/...
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announced that the new "SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science" will continue to be freely available until the end of 2020.
https://epubs.siam.org/journal/sjmdaq
Oxford Handbooks Online
Due to a new MPG-wide license agreement, all 17 subject collections of the "Oxford Handbooks Online" are now available for the employees of the Max Planck Society until the end of 2022.
This includes e.g.:
Further information can be found via this link:
https://rena.mpdl.mpg.de/rena/Record/ERS000001989
New intern in the library: Anna Leißle
As from March 2, 2020 Anna Leißle of the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart will complete her internship semester in the library and support the library team.
IGI Global InfoSci-Journals
As from January 2020 members of the MPG will have online access to the peer-reviewed journals of the "IGI Global InfoSci-Journals" package.
This includes e.g.:
In addition, the publication fees for Open Access articles with a CC-BY license in InfoSci-Journals can be centrally covered if the “corresponding author” is a scientist of the Max Planck Society.
Further information can be found via this link:
https://rena.mpdl.mpg.de/rena/Record/ERS000000222
Transformative Open Access agreement between Projekt DEAL and Springer Nature
Projekt DEAL and Springer Nature have signed a transformative Open Access agreement, which will run from 2020 to 2022.
Due to the conclusion of the contract all employees of the Max Planck Society will have online access to the publisher’s journal portfolio as well as the opportunity to publish Open Access in Springer Nature journals.
From the beginning of the Gold Open Access component for fully Springer Nature Open Access journals on August 1, 2020, publications in "Nature Communications" and "Scientific Reports" will also be covered by the agreement.
Further information can be found via these links:
https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/about-us/news...
https://www.hrk.de/press/press-releases...
https://www.projekt-deal.de/springer-nature-contract/
Loan & return
Generally, the library stock may only be borrowed by members of the institutes. The initial loan period is 60 days. Subsequently you can perform an online-extension until a maximum loan period of one year is reached. On level 3 you can find a book return box which allows you to return borrowed books at any time.
Here you will find the guidelines for your user account and for the self-check-loan.
It is possible to use the self-check-loan at any time, even outside the opening hours. If you have any questions concerning the loan or your user account please contact us directly or send us an e-mail.
Journals cannot be borrowed. However, there is a copier available on level 2 and 3.
Suggestion for acquisition
If the library does not have a particular book you can send us a suggestion for acquisition. We will add the book to our stock as soon as possible. Please contact us directly, e-mail us or call us on 0711/689-1397.
You can get an overview of newly acquired books through our monthly list of new acquisitions. The list can be subscribed by RSS.
Interlibrary loan
The interlibrary loan is a service that allows you to order media (e.g. books, journals), which are not available in the local print or online stock, from other libraries as well as the document delivery service subito.
If you wish to place an order, please e-mail us or call us on 0711/689-1397.
For book orders the delivery time amounts to 3 - 7 working days, for journals to 1 - 2 working days. After receiving the media we will inform you by e-mail.
Theses
The library collects all theses that have been written in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. These include PhD theses, habilitation theses, bachelor and master theses, as well as diploma theses. They are incorporated into our library collection and recorded in the library catalog. The printed theses are arranged in level 3 and can be borrowed. PhD theses published after 2000 are often also available in electronic form via our library catalog.
If you have written a thesis, please hand in a printed copy to the library.
For any questions, please contact us via e-mail or under the phone number 0711/689-1397.
Catalog Aleph
You can search the library's collection in our local catalog Aleph. This includes monographs, serials and journals. Furthermore you have the option to borrow books yourself and to access your library account.
Here you will find the guidelines for your user account and for the self-checkout.
In addition, you can get an overview of newly acquired books through our monthly list of new acquisitions.
A parallel search in our local print stock and the Max Planck Society's central e-books catalog is also possible.
List of journals
Here you can view the list of our printed journals as a PDF-file. The current issues and volumes are arranged on level 2M 1.
Please note that the list does not contain any e-journals. You can search them in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB).
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) is a cooperative service of currently more than 628 libraries and institutions (including our library). It offers easy and convenient access to electronically published scientific journals in full text. The accessibility of the listed journals is represented by a traffic light system.
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The full text is freely accessible.
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The journal is freely accessible for the members of the Max Planck Institutes Stuttgart.
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Only some of the published volumes are accessible.
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Here you will find the conditions for access and instructions for use of individual journals.
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Please note: The systematic download of articles or search results, especially by robots, is prohibited and will initiate the publisher to block access to the journal for all users of the Max Planck Institutes Stuttgart!
Internal catalogs of the Max Planck Society
E-books catalog of the Max Planck Society
The central e-books-catalog offers you the possibility of searching the entire e-books collection, licensed by the Max Planck Society. Depending on the publisher you can read the texts on the PC and/or download them as a PDF-file.
MPG Resource Navigator (MPG.ReNa)
MPG Resource Navigator (MPG.ReNa) is a web application to navigate through scientific information resources available to staff and guests of the Max Planck Society. It includes licensed databases, digital collections, and reference works. In addition, recommandable retrieval tools available on the web free of charge are part of the collection. Moreover, almost all Max Planck Institute library catalogs, as well as selected external ones, are acessible from here.
Additional catalogs
Here you will find regional and national catalogs, which might be of interest for your searches.
Union Catalogue of Serials
The Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) is a catalog for printed and electronic journals, newspapers, serials and other periodical works.
Regional catalogs
- Local catalog Stuttgart-Tübingen
In this catalog you will find the stock and information of scientific libraries in the Stuttgart-Tübingen region.
- Stuttgart University Library
In this catalog you will find the stock of the Stuttgart University Library and of its associated institute libraries.
- Württemberg State Library
The catalog of the Württemberg State Library (WLB) provides access to printed and electronic information resources. The library gains its particular significance from its right to collect legal deposit copies of every book published in Baden-Württemberg.
- SWB online catalog
The union catalog of the Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund (SWB) offers you a central search entry for comprehensive research in the catalogs of the affiliated libraries in Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, Saarland and the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Central subject libraries
The central subject libraries serve as a national literature and information supplier for the highly specialized demands of science and research. They offer you comprehensive search possibilities, as it is their purpose to collect the publications of their subject as completely as possible and make them available through interlibrary loan. This includes publications within Germany and abroad as well as so-called grey literature (e.g. preprints).
Metacatalogs
- Karlsruhe Virtual catalog
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a metacatalog that offers you the opportunity to search different catalogs and directories at the same time. These are for example the above mentioned union catalogs and the Union Catalog for Serials (ZDB) as well as numerous international catalogs.
- WorldCat
The WorldCat is a catalog that provides access to inventory information from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. A huge advantage of the catalog is that it supports Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagaric, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil and Thai characters.
Databases
The central Information Service of the CPT section (IVS-CPT) provides an overview of the worldwide flood of publications and keeps the scientists informed. The IVS-CPT is located within the library.
Here you will find a selection of databases:
- Dissertation & Theses (Proquest)
is a database of records for graduate research, with over 2.1 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. In addition, nearly one million dissertations and theses are available for download in PDF format.
- Wolters Kluwer Online
is a comprehensive database that includes journals, comments, manuals, judgments, etc. (predominantly as a full text) concerning the German and European law.
- OvidSP
offers a collection of reference databases for psychology such as PsycINFO, PSYNDEXplus Literature and Audiovisual Media, PSYNDEXplus Tests, CAB Abstracts
- Patent server of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
- Patent server of the European Patent Office
- Springer Materials: The Landolt-Börnstein Database
is a systematic and comprehensive resource of selected and critically assessed data in all areas of physical sciences and engineering.
- Web of Science
is a database of bibliometric data (Citation Indexing and Impact Factor of journals), supplemented by scientific fact databases.
- Wiso
offers a comprehensive range of German and English literature for the economic and social sciences, law and psychology with access to the full text of selected journals.
