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Tuesday, 02.12.2025

Invitation: Webinar on ELN Finder

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

Researchers and RDM staff often struggle to keep track of the diverse ELN software landscape in order to identify suitable tools for their laboratory or institution.

The web-based ELN Finder provides support by offering detailed information on numerous ELN products and enabling users to generate a tailored selection through filter criteria. After its launch in 2023, the portal was continuously expanded. With the second version of the metadata schema, 45 clearly structured filter criteria are now available. Additional contributors enriched the database with further tools, and best practice examples were implemented together with external partners.

The ELN Finder is organised by ZB MED. Its editorial team consists of numerous experts and users of ELN tools from all over Germany. The technical implementation as a web service is carried out by the University and State Library Darmstadt, based on the open source software DSpace.

Are you interested in further information about the ELN Finder or would you like to join the editorial team? Then visit our online information event!

 

Information at a glance

  • What: Webinar on ELN Finder – A service for selecting an electronic laboratory notebook
  • When: 20 January 2026, 1–2 p.m.
  • Where: online via Zoom
  • to the ELN Finder
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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.