ZB MED Medicine. Health.

Our collection is based on guidelines issued by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 1997 on the classification of special subject collections and the acquisition of literature.

The ZB MED collects the following range of subjects in the fields of medicine and health for its Cologne site:

A

• Accident Surgery
• Acupuncture
• Aerospace Medicine
• Allergology
• Anaesthesiology
• Anatomy
• Ancient Medicine
• Andrology
• Angiology
• Anthropology (medical and physical aspects)
• Art and Medicine
• Art Therapy
• Aviation Medicine

B

• Balneology
• Biochemistry
• Biomedical Engineering
• Biometry (medical aspects)
• Biophysics (medical aspects)
• Biotechnology (medical aspects)
• Burns Medicine

C

• Cardiology
• Cell Biology (medical aspects)
• Climatology (medical aspects)
• Clinical Chemistry
• Clinical Economics
• Clinical Immunology
• Cosmetics (medical aspects)
• Critical Care Medicine
• Cytology (medical aspects)

D

• Dental, Oral and Craniomandibular Sciences
• Dermatology
• Dietetics
• Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
• Documentation in Medicine

E

• Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine
• Education in Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Engineering and Technology (medical aspects)
• Environmental Medicine
• Environmental Sciences
• Epidemiology
• Ergonomics (medical aspects)
• Ethnomedicine
• Evidence-based Medicine
• Experimental Medicine

F

• Fishing
• Food Industry
• Food Science
• Food Technology
• Forensic Medicine
• Forestry

G

• Gastroenterology
• General Medicine
• Genetic Engineering (medical aspects)
• Geriatrics
• Gerontology
• Gynaecology
• Gynaecology and Obstetrics

H

• Haematology
• Health Economics
• Health Education
• Health Insurance Schemes
• Health Professions
• Health Services Research (medical aspects)
• History of Medicine
• Home Economics
• Homeopathy
• Hospital Facilities
• Household Sciences
• Human Genetics
• Hydraulic Engineering in Agriculture
• Hydrology
• Hygiene

I

• Imaging Techniques in Medicine
• Immunology
• Infectiology
• Informatics (medical aspects)
• Instrument Science (medical aspects)
• Insurance Medicine
• Internal Medicine

L

• Laboratory Animal Science (medical aspects)
• Laboratory Medicine
• Landscape Ecology
• Legal Medicine
• Legislation (medical aspects)
• Librarianship (medical aspects)
• Literature and Medicine
• Livestock Farming
• Livestock Rearing

M

• Medical Ethics
• Medical Personnel
• Medical Profession
• Men's Health
• Microbiology (medical aspects)
• Midwifery
• Military Medicine
• Molecular Bioinformatics
• Molecular Biological Medicine
• Music Therapy

N

• Nature Conservation
• Nautical Medicine
• Neonatology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Neurosciences
• Neurosurgery
• Nuclear Medicine
• Nursing Industry
• Nursing Professions
• Nursing Sciences
• Nutritional Medicine
• Nutritional Sciences

O

• Obstetrics, see Gynaecology and Obstetrics
• Occupational Medicine
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedagogy (medical aspects)
• Orthopaedics
• Osteology
• Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

P

• Paediatrics
• Palliative Medicine
• Parasitology (medical aspects)
• Pathology
• Perinatology
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacy (medical and pharmacological aspects)
• Philosophy (medical aspects)
• Phlebology
• Phoniatrics
• Photography (medical aspects)
• Physical Medicine
• Physics (medical aspects)
• Physiological Chemistry
• Physiology
• Physiotherapy
• Phytotherapy
• Plant Cultivation
• Plant Production
• Plastic Surgery
• Pneumology
• Preventive Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology (medical aspects)
• Psychosomatics
• Psychotherapy
• Public Health
• Public Health Systems

Q

• Quality Assurance in Medicine

R

• Radiobiology
• Radiology
• Radiotherapy
• Reconstructive Surgery
• Rehabilitation (medical aspects)
• Research Organisation in Medicine

S

• Sexology
• Social Medicine
• Sociology (medical aspects)
• Soil Science
• Sports Medicine
• Statistics (medical aspects)
• Stomatology
• Surgery

T

• Thanatology
• Toxicology
• Traffic Medicine
• Transfusion Medicine
• Transplantation Medicine
• Traumatology
• Tropical Medicine
• Tumour Biology

U

• Unconventional Medical Practices
• Urology

V

• Venerology
• Virology (medical aspects)

W

• Water Management

Information about the medical disciplines on which our collection policy is based

This list provides a ‘pragmatic’ overview of the range of subjects that the German National Library of Medicine collects and makes no claim to follow a rigorous scientific system. It is pragmatic in the sense that the terms selected from among the multitude of possibilities represent those terms that are scientifically accepted in research literature and/or widely used in medical practice.

The list was compiled on the basis of official publications such as:

• the Annual Report of the German Research Foundation (DFG)http://www.dfg.de/index.jsp,
• the continuing education requirements for German medical professionals (Weiterbildungsordnung für Ärzte),
• the Collection Development Manual of the U.S. National Library of Medicine,
• the research project initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Health on "Unconventional Medical Practices",
• the Pschyrembel Clinical Dictionary,
• and the membership list of the "Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany" (AWMF).

For disciplines which include more than just medical aspects, the German National Library of Medicine limits itself to the acquisition of publications relevant to medicine.  These subject areas are indicated in the list above by the phrase "medical aspects" (for example, "Informatics (medical aspects)" rather than "Medical Informatics", and "Physics (medical aspects)" rather than "Medical Physics").

ZB MED Nutrition. Environment. Agriculture.

In line with its collection policy for print publications, electronic documents and bibliographical references, the ZB MED primarily focuses on the science-related content of nutritional, environmental and agricultural science to the extent that this is related to the food and value chain. Our collection policy does not include general aspects from the fields of technology, business/economics, law, politics, or sociology. Equally, our collection does not cover the history of the subject areas of nutrition, agriculture and the environment. Occasionally, standard reference works may be acquired in these areas, though this is not our general policy.

The library's stock development policy is systematically based on the themes of the "Environment – People – Nutrition – Health" value cycle. It covers the full spectrum from environmental conditions, animal breeding, plant cultivation and agricultural production (food/renewable resources/sources of energy) right the way through to human beings as consumers.

In light of the world's growing population, one of the most important current global objectives is to provide people with the nutrition they need to stay fit and healthy while simultaneously conserving and protecting natural resources. Our multi-discipline collection policy also focuses on efforts to ensure food safety and traceability as part of consumer protection.

Our collections are rounded off with the acquisition of specialist literature on the effects of land use and of further anthropogenic influences on the climate and on the natural and built-up environment.

• Dietetics, nutritional science, home economics and food sciences 
• Environmental protection and resource management
• Agricultural science

Is there something you feel we should add to our stock?

Please feel free to contact us by e-Mail or phone. We are always happy to receive suggestions for new acquisitions.  

Contact us

Dr. agr. Eva Maria Hackenberg
E-mail: eva.maria.hackenberg@zbmed.de
Phone: +49 (0)228 73 3404