Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) was founded

Berlin 4 Open Access
Berlin 4 Open Access - Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in Golm/Berlin (Albert Einstein Institute)

Press release: "eSciDoc" project supported by BMBF
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved funding of a pilot project "eSciDoc" concerning Open Access and the innovative information management for research. The "eSciDoc" project will develop a novel platform for networked scientific information and collaboration. It will be developed in close cooperation between the Max Planck Society and the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe.

Press Release Max Planck Society (German)
Press Release BMBF (German)
Press Release FIZ Karlsruhe (German)

Release ePubTk 1.0
The Living Reviews BackOffice is pleased to announce the release of the ePublishing Toolkit 1.0. An open source software package which produces the advanced Living Reviews web presentation for scientific documents.

Conference on Open Access to Knowldege in the Sciences and Humanities
From 20-22 October 2003 the Max Planck Society in association with the ECHO project is staging a science policy conference on the issue of open access in Berlin. See the conference website documenting the meeting and its outcome for further information.