MPDL Services

The MPDL Services gGmbH was founded in 2018. It provides the infrastructure and know-how to enable scientific institutions throughout Germany to participate easily and collaboratively in the nationwide DEAL agreements with scientific publishers.
The shareholders of the MPDLS are members of the Alliance of German Science Organizations and other research (infrastructure) institutions who, through the MPDLS, are creating a framework for the open access transformation in Germany to support German scientific institutions in realigning their funding towards open access publishing.