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.
#Healthcare #PubMed #Medicine #Germany #DataSovereignty #OLSPub #ZBMED #Tech #Research #Science #Europe
"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
The project account; @ZBMED.
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 […]
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📢 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
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Join us for a collaborative @NFDI4DS hackathon with experts from various institutions on June 25-27, 2025 at @ZBMED in Cologne.
Focus areas
* improving the Bioschemas and Schemas.science websites,
* enhancing tutorials,
* reviewing and proposing profiles,
* adding Bioschemas/schemas.org markup to your resources.
Submit applications by June 15, 2025. Limited capacity; participants cover their own expenses.
More info:
https://zbmed-semtec.github.io/nfdi4ds-hackathons/docs/2025.html#bioschemas-hackathon
Strengthening the resilience and independence of the life sciences research infrastructure in Europe is necessary regarding the risks posed by dependencies on US-based information services. ZB MED will therefore develop an alternative to PubMed.
📣 Basis schaffen. Zugang öffnen. Forschung stärken.
Der neue ZB MED-Jahresbericht 2024 ist online!
Was bedeutet es konkret, Infrastruktur für die Lebenswissenschaften zu gestalten?
Unser Online-Bericht zeigt, was wir 2024 bewegt haben – mit Zahlen, Projekten, Blicken hinter die Kulissen, Bildern, Videos und mehr.
📲 Jetzt reinschauen, scrollen, entdecken:
👉 https://jahresbericht.zbmed.de/jahresbericht/2024/
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