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The OAPEN Foundation has announced a new partnership with the Max Planck Society to build a dedicated collection of open access books. The collection will be funded by more than 80 Max Planck Institutes and research units, making scholarly publications in fields such as physics freely available to readers worldwide. The move is being discussed as a significant step for open access publishing and digital humanities scholarship.

Yale Library's digitized Takamiya Collection has helped solve a long-standing puzzle about missing medieval manuscript fragments. The location of the missing leaves had remained a mystery for nearly a century, and researchers relied on clues from the newly digitized materials to track them down. Science and technology commentators are highlighting the project as an example of how digitizing historical collections can advance humanities research.