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ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
Gleueler Straße 60
50931 Cologne (Köln)
Germany

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Nutritional, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences

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Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 4
53115 Bonn
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Nine ZB MED staff members are holding up several posters bearing the words ‘ZB MED is Library of the Year 2026’

Monday, 27.07.2026

ZB MED is ‘Library of the Year 2026’

In awarding this prize, the German Library Association (dbv) is recognising, in particular, the organisation’s commitment to open science and digital sovereignty. The national library prize is worth 20,000 euros and will be presented in Cologne on 29 October 2026.

 

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Monday, 20.07.2026

ZB MED developer joins the Dataverse Core Team

Vera Clemens becomes the first external developer from Europe to join the team at Harvard University.

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Friday, 10.07.2026

ZB MED Continues Its Work in NFDI4Microbiota and NFDI4DataScience

Joint Science Conference (GWK) approves continued funding for ten consortia of the National Research Data Infrastructure.

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Wednesday, 17.06.2026

The Digital Library of ZB MED: Key Services at a Glance

From e-books and databases to search portals – resources you can access anytime, anywhere for research, study and teaching.

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Wednesday, 17.06.2026

Books stay – access goes digital: ZB MED repositions its library services

ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences is systematically realigning its library services towards digital information and literature provision. In future, the focus will be on nationwide and location-independent services. On-site use at the Cologne location will be discontinued on 17 July…

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Thursday, 21.05.2026

Call for Contributions: SciCoCo.nrw 2026

Science, Compute, Connect - from September 21 to 23, 2026 at RWTH Aachen. 

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Wednesday, 13.05.2026

ZB MED at the BiblioCon

The 114th BiblioCon will take place in Berlin from May 19 to 22, 2026.

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Wednesday, 13.05.2026

ZB MED Launches Process Toward Digital Sovereignty

New position paper: A realistic, determined, and future-oriented path out of technological dependency

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Thursday, 07.05.2026

New times. New challenges. New approaches.

ZB MED annual report 2025 published.

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Zwei Hände an einem Tablet, auf dem Bildschirm PUBLISSO, das Publikationsportal von ZB MED

Tuesday, 31.03.2026

Publish Living Handbooks free of charge as part of the DFG SeDOA project

PUBLISSO supports researchers in publishing their academic content in a sustainable, quality-assured and open-access manner – regardless of their field of study.

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Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

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The robust, well-established partnership between ZB MED and the University of Cologne covers research, teaching and the provision of information. The Scientific Director of ZB MED also holds a professorship at the Medical Faculty.

ZB MED is sponsered by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia

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The Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia is sponsoring ZB MED.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

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A joint professorship is just one example of the cooperation between ZB MED and the University of Bonn in the fields of research and teaching. ZB MED’s Bonn site is located on the Poppelsdorf campus.

ZB MED advocates Open Access

ZB MED promotes and supports open access to scientific research through the PUBLISSO portal and other services.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

ZB MED’s cooperation with TH Köln focuses on providing qualifications in information and data science through joint professorships and other strategies.

ZB MED is a member of DataCite

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DataCite is an international not-for-profit organisation that offers services and know-how relating to the management, referencing and citation of research data.

ZB MED and Bielefeld University have signed a cooperation agreement

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The objective is to work together to provide complementary information services for the life sciences.

ZB MED advocates equality

ZB MED received the TOTAL E-QUALITY award in 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2021 for successfully implementing equality in its staffing structure and personnel policies.

ZB MED is a member of DAFA.

The "Deutsche Agrarfoschungsallianz" aims to improve the performance, transparency and international visibility of German agricultural research. It is a joint project of German agricultural research.

ZB MED is committed to the principles of Libraries4Future.

Climate protection, sustainability, responsibility, social solidarity.