#Hintergrund
Der Wissenschaftsrat bezeichnet ihre Leistungen als „unverzichtbar“, doch möchten die Geldgeber immer weniger für die Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin zahlen. Zuletzt fand eine weitere Kürzung der Gelder statt. Doch ohne weitere staatliche Förderung wird die @ZBMED ihre Serviceleistungen in Zukunft deutlich einschränken müssen!
Details im Artikel von Larissa Tetsch: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3461.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSci #Forschung #Infrastruktur #ZBMED #Medizin #Biowissenschaften

Unser Heft 03/2026 ist raus!
Titelthema: Ende des Schlachtens- Fleisch aus Zellkultur
Außerdem:
- #Reformvorschläge in der #Tierversuchspolitik
- #fMRT auf dem Prüfstand
- #Elfenbeinwurm: Gerangel um Suchtstoffe
- #Methoden-Special: Neue Aufgaben für #Plasmide
- Finanzierungskampf der #ZBMED
- #Journal Club: Synthetische #Proteinbausteine
- ...
Das ganze Heft online: https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/aktuell/index.php

#Laborjournal #Lifesiences #Magazin #Aktuell #Biowissenschaften #Medizin #März

Can somebody please explain to me why there is a fundraising campaign ongoing for #zbmed when #OpenAlex is already up an running ?
https://openalex.org/
https://www.zbmed.de

Are we again spreading money in Europe over multiple solutions ?
Or is there a fundamental difference between these two publication databases ?
#digitalsoveignty
#AcademicChatter

OpenAlex

#DigitaleSouveränität: #ZBMED startet #Fundraising für #PubMed-Alternative. Trotz Versprechen zum Sichern unabhängiger #Forschungsdaten bleibt die Finanzierung fürs europäische Projekt #OLSPub aus. Eine Bibliothek geht in die Offensive. https://www.heise.de/news/Digitale-Souveraenitaet-ZB-MED-startet-Fundraising-fuer-PubMed-Alternative-11170687.html
Digitale Souveränität: ZB MED startet Fundraising für PubMed-Alternative

Trotz Versprechen zum Sichern unabhängiger Forschungsdaten bleibt die Finanzierung fürs europäische Projekt OLSPub aus. Eine Bibliothek geht in die Offensive.

heise online

The PubMed trap: Germany’s dangerous data poker in medicine.

When PubMed, the world’s largest medical literature database, went offline for a day, German science was suddenly made aware of how precariously it stands.

The German government promised digital sovereignty and provides millions, but behind the scenes, a dispute rages over securing important research data.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260127-the-pubmed-trap-germanys-dangerous-data-poker-in-medicine?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Healthcare #PubMed #Medicine #Germany #DataSovereignty #OLSPub #ZBMED #Tech #Research #Science #Europe

The PubMed trap: Germany’s dangerous data poker in medicine.

When PubMed, the world’s largest medical literature database, went offline for a day, German science was suddenly made aware of how precariously it stands. The German government promised digital sovereignty …

Heise Online
#ZBMED is clearly very sensitive to the community concern about being suddenly left high & dry: They are moving as quickly as they can to have an emergency substitute as soon as possible, even though that would of necessity be a very no-frills, basic service
Professur für Library Assessment Management

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Recruiting - TH-Köln

"The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure in Germany, nor to simply transplant a centralized system from the US to Germany. The goal is a fully open source, federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support."

@hildabast, 2025

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

The project account; @ZBMED.

#OpenScience #PubMed #ZBMED

Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe

A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…

Absolutely Maybe

Trump’s war on knowledge requires re-inventing academic publishing as diamond open access

A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about a growing risk that we will lose access to the world’s knowledge, because of a failure by traditional academic publishers to place copies of the articles they publish in key backup archives. Although unacceptable, that oversight is more a matter of laziness and cost cutting on the part of publishers, rather than a result of outright animosity to the […]

#academicPublishing #archives #climateCrisis #diamondOa #donaldTrump #fair #nasa #ncbi #nih #noaa #nsf #pangaea #pubmed #samizdat #zbMed

https://walledculture.org/trumps-war-on-knowledge-requires-re-inventing-academic-publishing-as-diamond-open-access/

📢 Auf der #EAHIL2025 in Łódź mit dabei: Unsere Expertin Jasmin Schmitz!
Heute um 12:30 Uhr leitet sie den Workshop „How Paper Mills and Predatory Journals flood the scientific record – and what medical research libraries can do“.
🔗 Programm: https://eahil2025.umed.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EAHIL_2025__PROGRAM_A3__stan_04-03-2025.pdf

#OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #ZBMED #FakeScience #MedicalLibraries