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The photo shows four women standing next to each other: Dr Ulla Weber (Chair of the TOTAL E-QUALITY Executive Board), Christiane Hünten (Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer at ZB MED), Vanessa Scharf (Equal Opportunities Officer at ZB MED), Dr Susan Banihaschemi (Member of the TOTAL E-QUALITY Executive Board). Christiane Hünten holds a small statue, Vanessa Scharf a large certificate. The women stand in front of the TOTAL E-QUALITY logo.

Monday, 18.11.2024

Equal opportunities and diversity honoured

ZB MED receives the TOTAL E-QUALITY award for the fifth time in a row.

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The illustration is taken from a digital copy entitled ‘Radium therapy’ from 1911 by the authors Wickham and Degrais. It shows a patient with an epitheliomatous tumour before and after radium therapy.

Monday, 30.09.2024

Old News in Cancer Research

ZB MED digitises historical sources on oncology.

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Photo of the title page of the historical dissertation by Getti Zwiebel.

Friday, 19.01.2024

ZB MED's ten thousandth digitised item published: old knowledge made newly available - quality-assured and free of charge

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences digitises - in contrast to mass digitisation projects, for example by Google - with the so-called boutique retro-digitisation. This is a process in which particularly high-quality and quality-assured files are created through careful selection and manual…

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Tuesday, 12.12.2023

Remote access from ZB MED - the digital library for the life sciences

Now with a significantly expanded range and easier access

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Portrait in sepia of the Bonn physician Erich Hoffmann

Thursday, 01.06.2023

ZB MED publishes Hoffmann Collection - Private library of the (co-)discoverer of the syphilis pathogen is available online as a digital collection

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences has digitised the extensive private library of the Bonn physician Erich Hoffmann (1868-1959). It includes numerous works on dermatology, the history of medicine and the theory of infections. Among them are many copies that were given to him as dedication…

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Tuesday, 17.01.2023

Better data exchange for Open Access publications - TIB, ZB MED and ZBW sign agreement with OA Switchboard

The three specialised German National Libraries TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences and ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics will fund participation in the OA Switchboard initiative for universities and research…

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Thursday, 05.01.2023

Making preprints more usable as a source of information

TH Köln and ZB MED develop an information extraction pipeline for preprints in a DFG project

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Tuesday, 20.12.2022

ZB MED successful in applying for third-party funding

Ten applications with a total volume of 3.8 million euros approved

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Tuesday, 29.11.2022

ZB MED fights misinformation - AI application to help make a qualified assessment

From 1 December 2022, the German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund a project of ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences over the next three years to combat disinformation in the life sciences. In the project AQUAS - Automatic Quality Assessment: NLP methods for semantic mapping of life…

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Friday, 11.11.2022

FAIRagro and Base4NFDI successful in third round of NFDI funding

ZB MED is involved in two further National Research Data Infrastructure consortia

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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.