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PubMan - the eSciDoc Solution for Publication Management

PubMan supports scientists and institutes in the management and the digital curation of their publications. This solution addresses all disciplines and focuses on the target groups of scientists, local librarians and local IT. Due to the heterogeneous policies, cultures and workflows of the Max Planck Institutes, customization and configuration options throughout the solution's features are of major importance.
With PubMan, the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) develops a service-oriented, flexible-to-use institutional repository software. Since 2009, the repository is introduced at the Max Planck Institutes and the publication data are gradually migrated from the current repository eDoc to the central installation of PubMan for the MPG. The software is a solution within the eSciDoc project, which is a joint open-source project by the MPDL and the FIZ Karlsruhe.
For more information, please see http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/Portal:PubMan

Advantages of PubMan for scientists at our institutes

Publication have to be stored in PubMan anyhow (MPG obligation for Yearbook and Fachbeirat to store publications in a repository)
If you use PubMan, you get

  • Archiving of publications
  • Sustainable links
  • Benefits of publication pop-up
  • Possibility to render publications open access
  • Re-use of publications on various outlets

The library is planning to change over from eDoc to PubMan, which is the newest instrument for managing publication data. At the moment we are cataloguing the publications of the institute in the archive of the MPG using eDoc, which is also used for creating the MPG yearbook. PubMan will offer the scientists further functionalities, such as the dissemination and further use of publications and supplementary material, support for citing and reporting, long-term storage of publication data and full texts.
On 10.02.2010 Mrs Ulla Tschida, Dept. for Research & Development in the Max Planck Digital Library, presented the project in Martinsried (see PDF below)


Interested? Please contact: Juliane Pohl
mail pohl[a]biochem.mpg.de




PubMan-Workshop, 10.02.2010, Martinsried