ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences

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ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences
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German Central Library for Medicine in Cologne, June 2011

founding 1973
Duration 1.7 million books and magazine volumes
Library type Special library
place Cologne and Bonn
ISIL DE-38M
operator German Central Library for Medicine
management since May 1, 2018: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Website https://www.zbmed.de/

The ZB MED - Information Center Life Sciences in Cologne, together with the Bonn location, is the central specialist library for medicine, health care, nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences in Germany. The focus is on inventory development, full-text provision and projects in the field of information science . The ZB MED provides science, research, students and other interested parties with specialist literature and information. It is financed by the federal and state governments.

history

The ZB MED goes back to the "Höhere Landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalt Bonn-Poppelsdorf" founded in 1847 and the "Library of the Academy for Practical Medicine" founded in Cologne in 1908. Since both institutions survived the Second World War largely unscathed, the German Research Foundation (DFG) assigned them supraregional responsibilities after the war . In 1964 the Science Council recommended expanding the "Medical Department of the University and City Library" in Cologne into the "Central Library of Medicine (ZBM)". This was founded five years later, in 1969. The facility was founded in 1973. The library received its first statute on July 3, 1973. The Bonn library in turn became the “ Central Library of Agricultural Science (ZBL) ” in 1962 . Their collecting areas were added to the German Central Library for Medicine in 2001 (nutrition and the environment) and 2003 (agricultural sciences). Since then, the ZB MED has acted as the central library for the combination of medicine, health, nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences.

On January 1, 2014, the ZB MED was converted into a foundation and was named ZB MED - Leibniz Information Center for Life Sciences (previously the German Central Library for Medicine ).

On March 18, 2016, the Leibniz Association recommended the termination of federal and state funding for the ZB MED. The Joint Science Conference (GWK) decided on June 24, 2016 that the federal-state funding of ZB MED will end on December 31, 2016. Associated with this is the departure from the Leibniz Association. Transitional funding ensures the preservation of the “German Central Library for Medicine (ZB MED)” until the library has repositioned itself in order to create the prerequisites for receiving federal and state funding on a permanent basis.

In July 2013 the ZB MED celebrated its 40th anniversary. At the end of April 2016, the ZB Med was placed on the Red List by the German Cultural Council and classified in Category 2 (endangered). The previous funding from the federal and state governments is in question.

Mission and target group

As a supra-regional information facility, the ZB MED supplements the holdings of other libraries. She negotiated national licenses and is involved in projects for the preservation of holdings, such as the digitization of old book collections and long-term archiving .

The primary target groups are researchers in the life sciences at German universities and non-university institutions in the Leibniz Association and beyond.

Open Access

ZB MED is committed to open access , for example within the framework of the “Digital Information” initiative, the alliance of German science organizations . In 2003 " German Medical Science " (gms) was founded, an open access portal with a publication service for medical journals, congress publications and research reports. In January 2011, the Open Access Portal was named a selected location of the “ Germany - Land of Ideas ” initiative .

The Open Access publication portal PUBLISSO went online in October 2015. It bundles all of ZB MED's activities in the area of ​​open access publishing, consulting and networking for the life sciences.

Since December 2010 the catalog data can be used freely under the CC0 license.

Services

  • LIVIVO: Internet-based search portal for the life sciences (medicine, health, nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences). Offers access to over 59 million data sets from over 45 specialist data sources and went online in April 2015. Access to licensed databases, e-journals and e-books is possible directly from LIVIVO for users registered at the Cologne location, also as remote access. After a test phase, LIVIVO replaced the previous search portals Medpilot and Greenpilot .
    • Medpilot was an internet-based search portal which, in addition to the ZB MED's own holdings, offered a complete Pub-Med research and access to a wide range of international and national medical literature from over 38 specialist databases. All catalog functions of the ZB MED could be used via Medpilot. ZB MED offered access to electronic full texts and the delivery of full texts via Medpilot.
    • Greenpilot was an internet-based search portal for scientific specialist literature in the fields of nutrition, environmental and agricultural sciences. The portal offered access to the holdings of the ZB MED, Pub-Med and other specialist databases. In 2009 Greenpilot was recognized as a selected location in the “Germany - Land of Ideas” competition.
  • DOI service: ZB MED acts as a DOI registration office for non-profit online offers in the fields of medicine, health, nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences. DOI ( Digital Object Identifier ) guarantee the permanent citability of electronic publications and research data. The ZB MED awards DOI as a member of the DataCite consortium and in cooperation with the TIB Hannover , which acts as the DOI registration agency and provides the technical infrastructure. The DOI assignment is free for academic institutions.
  • Covid-19 : As part of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ZB MED has developed several services for scientists . A central Covid-19 hub was developed. Various external and internal tools , data sets and literature are listed on the hub . A Covid-19 specific version of the LIVIVO search portal was also set up. In addition, the ZB MED has significantly simplified access to preprints with the preVIEW service. In the preprint viewer preVIEW, the preprints from arXiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, medRxiv and Preprints.org are combined and enriched with annotation from standardized vocabularies through a process based on text mining .

Current projects

  • eyeMoviePedia: Video portal and virtual research environment for the field of surgical ophthalmology.
  • Virtual microscopy: The cooperation between ZB MED and Clinic I for Internal Medicine at the University of Cologne is developing a new information infrastructure in the form of virtual microscopy in hematology and hematopathology.

Partnerships and networks

The ZB MED is a central institution in Europe in its specialist areas. It has established partnerships and networks with national and international libraries, institutes and associations and is a member of the network of the German Central Specialized Libraries in Goportis . Together with its partners, the Technical Information Library (TIB) and the German Central Library for Economic Sciences (ZBW), the ZB MED is the nationwide contact for full text provision, licensing, open access, long-term archiving and non-textual materials (research, audio and video data). Since Goportis was founded, she has held alternating conferences with partners every year.

The ZB MED is part of the Leibniz Research Association Science 2.0. Under the leadership of the ZBW in Kiel, various Leibniz institutes and other research institutions are investigating how new web technologies are changing science, how scientists can benefit from new web technologies and how the Internet is shaping scientific work processes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZB MED from May 2, 2018: Dual leadership of ZB MED complete - Joint appointment of medical computer scientist Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann with the University of Cologne , accessed on May 12, 2018
  2. ↑ History, numbers and facts. In: www.zbmed.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ On the history of ZB MED. ZB MED, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Herbort-von Loeper: Leibniz institutions in Dresden, Cologne / Bonn, Großbeeren / Erfurt and Kühlungsborn evaluated. Leibniz Association, press release from March 18, 2016 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on October 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ulrike Ostrzinski: GWK decides to end the federal-state funding of ZB MED. ZB MED, press release from June 27, 2016 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on October 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ Rebekka Kötting (presse@gwk-bonn.de): Press release Joint Science Conference No. 11/2016. (PDF) GWK Bonn, June 24, 2016, accessed on October 21, 2016 .
  7. ↑ 23. Red list of threatened cultural institutions published , accessed on August 16, 2017
  8. ↑ About ZB MED , accessed on August 24, 2017
  9. ↑ Anita Eppelin: German Medical Science: Pioneer for Open Access. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. September 21, 2012, accessed July 19, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Heike Grelka: The ZB MED supports a stronger integration of the libraries into the web by releasing their catalog data. In: idw-online. December 13, 2010, accessed August 25, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Search portals for life sciences: Livivo will be the only platform in the future. In: Nutrition review. April 15, 2015, accessed April 23, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Elke Roesner: ZB MED has further developed MEDPILOT: Virtual specialist library now with library account function. In: idw-online. July 4, 2012, accessed July 19, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Heike E. Krüger Brand: Knowledge portal Greenpilot: Environment, nutrition and agriculture in focus. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. December 21, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2013 .
  14. ↑ EB: Digital Object Identifier: Free of charge for research. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. March 1, 2013, accessed July 19, 2013 .
  15. ↑ COVID-19: Searching for information in preprints made easier - ZB MED is developing text mining-based preprint viewer. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  16. ↑ EB: Web 2.0 and Social Media: How does the Internet shape scientific work? In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. November 16, 2012, accessed July 19, 2013 .

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