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Wednesday, 12.11.2025

Data Quality Made Visible: Pubservatory Highlights PubMed Updates

ZB MED has launched Pubservatory, a new tool that makes the continuous curation of the PubMed database visible. Pubservatory, currently in beta, tracks how many and which records have been added or removed within a given timeframe.

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Thursday, 06.11.2025

Budget Cuts in North Rhine-Westphalia – Affecting ZB MED as well?!

The Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW-NRW) is planning to reduce ZB MED’s budget by almost 17 percent. Central services are at risk.

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Friday, 31.10.2025

Survey: Reputation, Recognition & Barriers in Health Data Sharing

How can researchers gain recognition beyond traditional publications?

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Friday, 24.10.2025

Call for Presentations: 8th Workshop Retrodigitisation

Topic: Digitisation for eternity? – Data quality in practice

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Tuesday, 30.09.2025

One click ahead: ZB MED search portal LIVIVO integrates preprints into its search function

The discovery service LIVIVO, operated by ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences, now offers the option of searching for preprints. LIVIVO is thus responding to the growing importance of preprints in scientific communication and supporting researchers with even more up-to-date information.

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Friday, 26.09.2025

ZB MED expert contributes to shaping European strategies for data curation and digital preservation

Dr. Katharina Markus has been selected as one of 20 participants for the international workshop “Shaping the Future of Research Data Curation in Europe”.

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Tuesday, 23.09.2025

70 years of the MAK Commission

ZB MED is participating in the ‘Open Science Day’ on 1 October 2025 at Futurium in Berlin.

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Friday, 19.09.2025

Invitation: Food for the climate – shaping the future with the Planetary Health Diet

ZB MED is participating in the German Sustainability Action Days with a lecture - in German - by Dr. Jana Leberl on 2 October 2025 at 1 p.m.

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Wednesday, 20.08.2025

ZB MED at CoRDI

From 26 to 28 August 2025, the second edition of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure will take place at RWTH Aachen University.

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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.