The Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the German Research Foundation (MAK Commission) publishes the so-called MAK Collection: the MAK and BAT value list and the journal The MAK Collection for Occupational Health and Safety. The abbreviation MAK stands for Maximum Workplace Concentration, BAT for Biological Agent Tolerance Values. Since 2020, the publications have appeared in the open access gold standard as first publications on PUBLISSO, ZB MED's open access publication portal.

In addition to these new publications, the almost 4,000 articles from the MAK Collection for Occupational Health and Safety published between 1972 and 2019 have now also been republished in PUBLISSO - Fachrepositorium Lebenswissenschaften. In a next step, these publications will be enriched with detailed and corrected metadata and republished on PUBLISSO. The aim is to bring together the entire holdings in the MAK Collection and to further develop the content in order to maximise usability. In this way, the entire MAK Collection is to be made centrally accessible as a knowledge base for practice and research.

Further links:

to the complete edition of all publications, with further links to the second and new publications
to PUBLISSO, the ZB MED publication portal for life sciences
to the DFG press release