eSciDoc – a Scholarly Information and Communication Platform for the Max Planck Society

eSciDoc is as a joint project of the Max Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), with the aim to realize a next-generation platform for communication and publication in research organizations [1]. The result of the entire eSciDoc project is intended to ensure open and persistent access to the research results and materials of the Max Planck Society and to integrate these materials in an emerging e-Science network, to increase the accountability of research and to improve the visibility of the Max Planck Society. At the same time, the project aims to provide effective and comprehensive access to information for Max Planck researchers and their work groups. Additionally, eSciDoc will support scientific collaboration and interdisciplinary research in future eScience scenarios and optimize the exploitation of information available through an interconnected global scientific knowledge space.