Open Access

Its official description, a “specialized science library serving the staff of the MDC,” sounds as dry as a dusty bookshelf. What else does the MDC library have to offer? We answer that question in an interview with Wolf Schröder-Barkausen, in another installment of our series “We at the MDC.”

A new online course aims to help researchers understand the benefits of Open Science. The ORION MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for Open Science in the Life Sciences runs from 21 October for six weeks, it has been developed by staff and scientists based at the Max Delbrück Center.

An ‘Edit-a-thon’ event, hosted among others by the MDC, celebrated International Women’s Day by improving diversity on Wikipedia pages. The MDC-produced ORION Open Science podcast was there to investigate what the challenges to diversity in science are and how the Open Science movement can help.

Amani Said about her unusual career path and her involvement in ScienceMatters, a publishing platform based on the principles of Open Science.

16 Helmholtz Association Centers have terminated their license agreements with scientific publisher Elsevier effective by the end of 2017. One of these Centers is the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC).

The MDC has asked Prof. Morano to represent the center in the Helmholtz Association’s Open Science...