Despite lockdown: We are there for you!
Information on our offers - digital and on site
- InfoCenter
Our central information desk is your first point of contact for questions about the ZB MED services and your literature research. You can reach us by e-mail, by telephone on +49 (0)221 478-5685 or via the contact form on the website.
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- Lending in Cologne
The lending desk is open between 10.00 and 17.00. By appointment you can pick up ordered media and library cards - contactless and without entering the library.
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- Lending in Bonn
You will find all the information you need on the pages of the Bonn University and State Library.
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- Zoom with a Librarian
Get advice on research questions and other library services in a 1:1 Zoom meeting. In conversation, via chat or by sharing screen contents, questions and topics can be answered specifically and individually.
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- Introduction to library use at the Cologne site
On every 2nd Wednesday of the month, an online introduction to library use takes place at 14.00 hrs. Individuals and small groups can register for this free event individually by e-mail.
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- LIVIVO - the ZB MED search portal for life sciences
Accessible 24/7 - the interdisciplinary search engine for literature and information on medicine, public health, nutrition, environmental and agricultural sciences. Simultaneous search in more than 55 million records from over 70 subject databases: scientifically relevant information is bundled and available for free search under a uniform interface. If you find relevant media there, in many cases you can access them directly online or order them via our delivery services. You can also order media that you would like to borrow on site via LIVIVO.
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- Delivery services of ZB MED
Our interlibrary loan service as well as the article and loan delivery services are available as usual and without restrictions.
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- COVID-19 Hub
A service for researchers in the field of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research: search options - for example in preprints or structured health data - as well as valid, curated information.
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- Advice on digital publishing and Open Access in the life sciences
Many questions are already answered by our comprehensive collection of FAQs. For everything else, the publication advisory service will help you.
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FAQs
- Open Access publishing
The PUBLISSO Open Access publishing platforms offer you the opportunity to publish your work and research data Open Access - i.e. freely accessible.
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- E-books and e-journals
Regardless of whether you are on the campus network of the University of Cologne, the UKLAN, or remotely, you can access our content. However, due to different types of licences, access differs depending on your location.
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- E-books for purchase on demand (DDA)
"Demand Driven Acquisition" - we purchase e-books at the suggestion of our user:s for remote access throughout Germany from the subject areas of agricultural sciences, nutrition, health, medicine, environment and related fields via ProQuest EbookCentral.
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- DBIS – Database Information System
DBIS lists databases available at ZB MED as well as databases freely available on the internet (bibliographies, full text databases, link collections). If you select the appropriate subject area, you will find an extensive range of databases with which you can research bibliographies and other sources. Within a subject database, you often have sophisticated options for formulating your research.
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- Digital Collections
Here you can find digitised media from the subject areas of ZB MED free of charge. You can search them by keyword and download them as pdf files. Primarily copyright-free holdings up to around 1920 are digitised. If copyrightable, we also digitise current material.
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