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The nationwide event will take place for the first time on 4 April 2025. Under the motto ‘Knowledge. Share. Discover.’ over 1,600 libraries throughout Germany will open their doors. 

ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences offers free remote access to Embase. This service provides researchers in Germany with a valuable resource for pharmaceutical, medical, and evidence-based research.

The course will begin in September 2025 and applications can be submitted from now until 28 April 2025. Scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) are once again available this year for applicants from NRW.

ZB MED is involved in the SeDOA consortium together with 15 scientific institutions for ‘scholar-led’ and ‘scholar-owned’ publishing.

Topic: Presenting digitised collections - conceptualisation, presentation and mediation

More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with the open access publisher MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated by ZB MED comes into force on 1 January 2025 and is valid until the end of 2026. Joining the consortium is still possible until…

TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences will continue to finance the participation of German universities and research institutions in the initiative in 2025.

Subdisciplines of chemistry as a criterion for selecting an electronic lab notebook

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

The former Senior Library Director of the Central Library of Agricultural Sciences - predecessor of the Bonn site of ZB MED - passed away on 3 October 2024 at the age of 90.