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Set up in 2001 by the Max Planck Society as a 5-year project and funded by the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation,
the ZIM serves the Max Planck Society and its scientists as a competence and innovation
center for information management in basic research.
It conducts a number of projects to facilitate access to research information and to support
the Max Planck Society in the realization of the vision
of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
The ZIM aims to support the Max Planck Institutes to exploit the full potential of the technological revolution
in the field of information processing and communication and to shape the accompanying restructuring processes of
science. The wide scope of the disciplines represented within the Max Planck Society and the resulting variety of
challenges in the use of electronically represented scientific information stand for a unique innovation potential.
In particular the ZIM has been set up to
- develop long-term models for the dissemination of and access to information by scientists of the MPS;
- provide support for the Max Planck Institutes in their local information management operations;
- advise the Max Planck Society on setting up and expanding its information infrastructure;
- conduct own research and development work, e.g. through active participation in the development of electronic
means of publication;
- represent the Max Planck Society on national and international bodies.
The original vision of the ZIM is described in the following historical paper:
A Center for Information Management of the Max Planck Society
(Ian Baldwin, Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Stephen Levinson, Peter Wittenburg)
Proposal, June 1999
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