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Medicine and Health

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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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ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 4
53115 Bonn
Germany

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An infrastructure and research centre for data and information in the life sciences.

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Wednesday, 14.05.2025

Connection problems: restricted access to LIVIVO

This is due to an unusually high number of automated search queries, which must be categorised as a potential attack due to their intensity.

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Monday, 05.05.2025

Infrastructure made in Europe: Securing information provision in biomedicine and the life sciences

Strengthening the resilience and independence of the life sciences research infrastructure in Europe is necessary regarding the risks posed by dependencies on US-based information services. ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences will therefore develop an open, reliable and sustainable…

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Friday, 02.05.2025

Information event ‘Resilient and independent life science research infrastructure’

ZB MED plans to develop an open, reliable and sustainable alternative to the PubMed database.

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Tuesday, 08.04.2025

Invitation: Wikimedians in libraries

Networking meeting on 6 November 2025 in Cologne

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Monday, 07.04.2025

Linked. Deepened. Reliable.

Cooperation between AMBOSS and ZB MED facilitates access to medical literature for students and physicians

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Keyvisual of the Night of the Libraries. Text in German: Nacht der Bibliotheken

Thursday, 06.03.2025

Invitation: Night of the Libraries 2025 - ZB MED will be part of it!

The nationwide event will take place for the first time on 4 April 2025. Under the motto ‘Knowledge. Share. Discover.’ over 1,600 libraries throughout Germany will open their doors. 

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Keyvisual Embase @ ZB MED

Wednesday, 05.03.2025

Embase @ ZB MED - Free Remote Access to Biomedical Database

ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences offers free remote access to Embase. This service provides researchers in Germany with a valuable resource for pharmaceutical, medical, and evidence-based research.

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Monday, 24.02.2025

Certificate course in research data management: application phase started

The course will begin in September 2025 and applications can be submitted from now until 28 April 2025. Scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) are once again available this year for applicants from NRW.

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Tuesday, 28.01.2025

DFG funds national service centre for Diamond Open Access

ZB MED is involved in the SeDOA consortium together with 15 scientific institutions for ‘scholar-led’ and ‘scholar-owned’ publishing.

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Scanroboter bei ZB MED

Wednesday, 15.01.2025

Invitation: 7th Workshop Retrodigitisation

Topic: Presenting digitised collections - conceptualisation, presentation and mediation

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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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Logo of Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia

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.