An infrastructure and research centre for data and information in the life sciences.
Ever since it signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in 2003, ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences has been committed to the principle of open access for research data. Now the information centre has gone one step further by issuing its own Open Access Policy, which stipulates that ZB MED employees should publish their own research data online in open access.
Read Open Access Policy (in German)
The Federal Ministry of Health is a sponsor of ZB MED on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.
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.
The Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia is sponsoring ZB MED.
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 promotes and supports open access to scientific research through the PUBLISSO portal and other services.
ZB MED’s cooperation with TH Köln focuses on providing qualifications in information and data science through joint professorships and other strategies.
DataCite is an international not-for-profit organisation that offers services and know-how relating to the management, referencing and citation of research data.
The objective is to work together to provide complementary information services for the life sciences.
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.
The network is committed to the research and development of working methods, infrastructures, and tools of Open Science.
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.
Climate protection, sustainability, responsibility, social solidarity.
