<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><font><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Springer. --Peter Suber.]<br>
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<p dir="LTR"><b><span lang="en-us"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Springer and Max Planck Society sign agreement</font></font></span></b></p><p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Berlin / Munich, 8 March 2010</font></font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-gb"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The Max Planck Society and Springer have reached an agreement which allows the scientists working at the 78 Max Planck Institutes and research facilities across Germany access to content on SpringerLink, which currently comprises over 2,000 journals, to several book series and to SpringerMaterials. The agreement covers access for 2010 and 2011.</font></font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The pilot project, begun in 2008 in conjunction with the last access agreement, which allowed researchers at the MPS institutes to publish using Springer Open Choice, has ended, but both parties have committed to ongoing discussions with respect to coming to a further agreement on alternative publishing models.</font></font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“We are pleased with our continued partnership with Springer and the mature basis we have reached together. While the new agreement separates subscription content from Open Choice again, we continue to be committed to exploring new models that reflect the changes in scholarly communication,” said Ralf Schimmer, Head of the Scientific Information Provision Department at the Max Planck Digital Library.</font></font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-gb"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“We value the opportunity of providing MPS researchers access to our content on SpringerLink. The pilot project for open access publishing has given both parties useful insights regarding alternative publishing models, and these insights will be the basis for our ongoing talks for a further agreement in this area,” said Peter Hendriks, Springer’s President of Global STM Publishing and Marketing.</font></font></span></p>
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