#zb-med — Public Fediverse posts

#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

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 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

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/

"Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net."
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

"#Germany has stepped up to this challenge. On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to #PubMed."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenInfrastructure #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Because of #Trump: [The German] Central Library of #Medicine builds alternative to US database."
https://www.heise.de/news/Wegen-Trump-Zentralbibliothek-Medizin-baut-Alternative-zu-US-Datenbank-auf-10372291.html

From Google's English: "The German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMed) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable, and sustainable alternative" to the #PubMed database, one of the most important and comprehensive resources for biomedical literature worldwide. The meta-database, with references to relevant articles and over 38 million citations, is operated by the National Library of Medicine (#NLM), a division of the National Institutes of Health (#NIH) in the United States. ZB Med is responding to concerns that the US administration under Donald Trump is cutting funding for the NIH. There are also fears that political influences could compromise PubMed's scientific integrity."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Germany #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Gemeinsam mit den anderen beiden deutschen Zentralen Fachbibliotheken @ZBMED und @ZBW_MediaTalk sowie mit der @stabi_berlin organisieren wir den 7. Workshop #Retrodigitalisierung, der am 20. und 21. März 2025 bei unseren Kolleg:innen der #ZBMED in Köln stattfinden wird.

Mehr dazu hier: https://www.tib.eu/de/die-tib/neuigkeiten-und-termine/termine/detail/7-workshop-retrodigitalisierung