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From Monday 23 July to Wednesday 25 July 2018 the lending in Cologne will close at 4 p.m.

DILS2018 is being hosted by ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences together with TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (Hannover), L3S Research Center Leibniz Universität Hannover and MHH - Hannover Medical School. It will be held at Leibnizhaus, Hannover on November...

On 15 May 2018, Professor Konrad Förstner took up his new post as head of the Provision of Information Services focus area at ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. His responsibilities include LIVIVO, the ZB MED search portal for life sciences. At the same time, the bioinformatics scientist...

On 1 May 2018, Professor Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann was appointed as the Scientific Director of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. At the same time, he took on the role of Professor of Information Processing, Exploitation and Support at the Medical Faculty of Cologne University. This...

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...