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On 15 February, Gabriele Herrmann-Krotz was appointed as Finance and Commercial Director of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. Drawing on her expertise as an economist, Herrmann-Krotz will be joining Interim Director Dr. Dietrich Nelle at the helm of ZB MED. She will be playing a key...

The Open Science Conference 2018 will take place on 13 and 14 March in Berlin. The conference is hosted by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is member of the Research Alliance and...

SynOA-PUB is a project that aims to expand and consolidate Open Access publishing infrastructures. To obtain funding for this project, ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences submitted an application to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This has now been approved,...

Users will soon have access to a simpler and more effective method of finding open access sources. The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences recently collaborated on a project to develop an easier way to search for open access literature. The new method...

In 2016, ZB MED compiled an overview of free video tutorials in German and English on a variety of issues connected to open access. The information was presented in a table with links to the respective videos. During this process we realised that it would be useful to have a video that gave an...

Experts from more than 40 Leibniz Association research institutions gather in Berlin to discuss the challenges of Open Access and the repercussions for licensing journals, electronic books and databases.