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Ensuring resilience and independence from US databases for medical research in Germany and Europe

The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) provides the LIBPUB community with a new institutional framework.

As the year draws to a close, we wish you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas season, restful days surrounded by your family and friends, and good health and optimism for the coming year.

Despite its high relevance and resonance, the second project application for OLSPub was also rejected.

Online session offers an introduction to the structure and functionalities of the tool and explains how to join the editorial team.

On 19 and 20 March 2026 at the Berlin State Library, Unter den Linden, on the topic of ‘Digitisation for eternity? – Data quality in practice’

The video from the basic service "Terminology Services 4 NFDI" (TS4NFDI) demonstrates how a centralised API gateway unifies different terminology systems, making data-intensive applications significantly easier to use.

Survey among researchers highlights impact of current challenges on everyday scientific work

In May, ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences announced its plans for the project Open Life Science Publications Database (OLSPub), as an open, reliable and sustainable alternative to the PubMed database. The project aims to strengthen the resilience and independence of Europe’s research…

ZB MED has launched Pubservatory, a new tool that makes the continuous curation of the PubMed database visible. Pubservatory, currently in beta, tracks how many and which records have been added or removed within a given timeframe.