The Institute edits the quarterly “Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht” (Heidelberg Journal of International Law), which has appeared electronically as well as in print since January 2006. Issues which are more than two years old can be downloaded without cost from the Institute’s Internet homepage. Since 1997, the Institute has also published the “Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law”. The full text of articles published in vols 1 – 9 is electronically available on the Institute’s homepage. Furthermore, the Institute has edited the “Journal of the History of International Law” since 2006 (No. 6). Prof. Wolfrum is one of the editors.
Results of Institute projects and the projects of Institute researchers, as well as additional selected research, are published by the Institute in the series “Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht” (Contributions on Comparative Public Law and International Law).
Under the auspices of Prof. Wolfrum, an electronic version of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is currently being prepared. It will contain around 1,728 keywords that are written by more than 800 authors worldwide. In August 2008 the first 450 MPEPIL articles were published at http://www.mpepil.com/. Since then new articles have been loaded onto the site every three months. By the end of January 2010 1,100 articles were available online. Once the electronic publication is all but complete, a print version will be made available by Oxford University Press.
With the “World Court Digest”, moreover, the Institute produces a systematic digest of the judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the International Court of Justice. The semi-annual bibliography “Public International Law” has offered a comprehensive compilation of periodical literature and books on public international law since 1975.
As of 1998, the Institute has made its scholarly resources available on the Internet (http://www.mpil.de), thereby providing an interested professional public with extensive access to essential and current materials on public international law and comparative public law. In particular, through its Online Public Access Catalogue, the Institute facilitates free global access to a database which allows for retrieval of books and articles systematically classified by legal topic. The Institute’s research staff annually evaluates approximately 3,100 journals as well as approximately 150 yearbooks and commemorative works for this purpose.
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