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The German Medical Library Association (AGMB) was founded in 1970, so it had its 50th anniversary in 2020. Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, no anniversary celebration could take place. For this reason, former chairmen and chairwomen of the AGMB Ulrich Korwitz, Dorothee Boeckh and Diana Klein as well as the current chairwoman Iris Reimann were invited to answer questions about their motives for getting involved in the AGMB, especially as chairpersons, and to report on heights and depths of their work for the AGMB. They also provide information about changes in medical libraries in the past decades and will give an outline on the role of medical libraries in the future. Finally, they will try to assess whether the AGMB will still exist in 50 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work group Austrian Medical Librarians (AGMB.AT) is a platform for the exchange of information and experience amongst medical librarians. The 10th meeting took place on September 14, 2020, which was held for the first time as a virtual meeting due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Representatives from 10 institutions took part. The effects of the lockdown on library operations, the further development of the online offers of the teaching library as well as the need for image databases and the possibility of cooperatively licensing them were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2019 lists all articles from GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek - Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of EAHIL: European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. The list also includes articles from medical journals written by staff of medical libraries. In such cases, entries of authors were only created if they are working in medical libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2018 Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann is scientific director of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. In this interview he speaks on his motivation for assuming that task and informs about his aims. By intensifying ZB MED's research activities, the re-admission into the Leibniz Association should be made possible. The scientific priorities at ZB MED are set by professorships at the University of Cologne, the Technical University of Cologne, the University of Bonn and in future also at the University of Bielefeld. Important offers from ZB MED are services to the life science community and support of open science. For this ZB MED has developed a number of collaborations, notably with the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics (BIBI). Furthermore, the interview informs about the support of AGMB by ZB MED and the perspective of ZB MED for the coming years. Finally Rebholz-Schuhmann gives his opinion on the future of libraries, which he sees as decisive players in the information society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2019 of GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information is the annual conference 2019 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Göttingen. The motto of the conference was "AGMB 2019: Shaping new paths together". The authors in this issue are Christina Draheim, Kristof Kessler, Janus Wawrzinek & Stefan Wulle (The search plattform PubPharm), Dagmar Härter (Dissection, dissection, cutting - virtual and without blood: two years of practical experience with „Anatomage" at the Göttingen Medical Library), Birte Lindstädt (Electronic laboratory notebooks as part of research data management in the life sciences), Elisabeth Müller & Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Acquisition strategy of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences), Simone Petermeise & Iris Reimann (Now you can touch heart and brain in the Medical Library of RWTH Aachen University), Iris Reimann & Martina Semmler-Schmetz (Quo vadis AGMB? Results of the online member survey 2019 and outlook on possible consequences for the AGMB), Claudia Wöckel (Learn, share, act, bridge boarders... Think out of the box; Publication support for scientists – libraries as service partners) and Diana Klein (AGMB 2019: Shaping new paths together. Annual Meeting of the German Medical Library Association (AGMB), September 16 to 18, 2019 in Göttingen). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Bruno Bauer & Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences: A 10-question interview with director Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann by Bruno Bauer) and Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News; German MLA (AGMB) competition "Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2020 – announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical University Vienna is one of the universities with the highest publication-output in Austria. A considerable proportion of these publications already fall into the area of open access, not least through the initiatives of the Austrian university libraries and research institutes, which were able to finalise so-called transition contracts with open access components with large publishers. In the following, this development is described from the perspective of the university library of the Medical University Vienna, analyses are presented and future developments are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2018 lists all articles from GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek – Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, b.i.t. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of EAHIL: European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work group Austrian Medical Librarians (AGMB.AT) is a platform for the exchange of information and experience amongst medical librarians. On Dec 12, 2018 the 8th meeting took place at the Medical University Vienna. The 9th meeting was organized by the library of the Vetmeduni Vienna and was held on May 7, 2019. Colleagues from ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences attended both meetings and presented the latest developments from their institution. Furthermore current topics from medical libraries in Austria where discussed and possible cooperations got suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 1-2/2019 of GMS MEDIZIN – BIBLIOTHEK – INFORMATION is on open access at medical universities. The authors in this issue are Beate Rusch, Julia Boltze, Julia Alexandra Goltz-Fellgiebel & Hedda Staub (Deep Green – Deep Gold: open access transformation – development and perspectives), Ursula Arning, Ulrich Blortz, Beate Brüggemann-Hasler, Gabriele Herrmann-Krotz, Elisabeth Müller & Ursula Zängl (ZB MED: an academic library as an engine for open access), Jasmin Schmitz (Quality assurance for open access journals and predatory publishing), Ursula Flitner & Steffi Grimm (Launching open access services at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. A practice report), Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff & Katrin Wibker (Open access at the University Library Duisburg-Essen: focus on medicine). Gregor Steinrisser-Allex & Kerstin Grossmaier-Stieg (Open access at the Medical University of Graz – therapeutic decisions caught between research and clinical practice), Annette Spremberg, Markus Schmiel & Kristina Hartmann (Open access at Hannover Medical School: practical experience report of the library), Astrid Vieler & Claudia Wöckel (From information provider to research service provider – shifting the perception of library through open access at the medicine and sciences library of the Leipzig University), Karin Eckert & Stefanus Schweizer (Open access at the University and University Medical Center in Mainz), Oliver Obst (Researchers in the midst of open access and DEAL negotiations. Part 1: open access activities), Noell Hennecke, Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth & Diana Mader (A spot on open access at the medical faculty of the University of Tübingen), Bruno Bauer, Helmut Dollfuß & Daniel Formanek (Open access at the Medical University Vienna: status and prospect from the perspective of the library) and Diana Klein (Open access from the point of view of medicine at the University Library of Würzburg). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News), Bruno Bauer, Helmut Dollfuß & David Frank (AGM B w ork group Austrian Medical Librarians (AGMB.AT): Report on the 8 th m eeting 2018 and the 9th meeting 2019), Oliver Obst (Use of tablet computers for the study of medicine. Part 3: the project easystudium), Julian Hirt, Stefanie Neyer & Thomas Nordhausen (Comprehensive literature searches – an overview) and Bruno Bauer (The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2012, the University Library of the Medical University of Vienna is undergoing certification procedures according to the international standard DIN EN ISO 9001 with the aim to continuously improve its products and services. This international standard demands quality management planning, installing, establishing and refining. Therefore a lot of resources, especially human resources, are required. In annually held in-house and external quality audits, the effectiveness of the quality management system and its compliance with all requirements of the standard are tested. These efforts have positive effects on the developed products and provided services, which are achieved by a higher level of transparency of operational procedures and processes as well as a more efficient identification and elimination of sources of error. Based on seven years of practical experience at the University Library of the Medical University of Vienna, the use of a quality management system according to DIN EN ISO 9001 can be recommended to scientific libraries aiming to achieve continuous improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2018 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is on the annual conference 2018 of the German Medical Bruno Bauer1 Libraries Association in Oldenburg. The motto of the conference was 1 Medizinische Universität Wien, Universitätsbibliothek, Wien, Österreich "Medical libraries: open and innovative by tradition". The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer (Seven years of continuous improvement according to DIN EN ISO 9001: a field report about the successful use of this quality management system at the University Library of the Medical University of Vienna), Michael Ernst (Changes in copyright law for libraries), Mark Homann (The implementation of the Urheberrechts-Wissensgesellschafts-Gesetz (UrhWissG) at subito: a short report from practice), Thomas Nordhausen & Julian Hirt (RefHunter 2.0: Update of the manual for systematic literature search in databases), Christoph Poley (A new approach to integrate availabilities in search portals and discovery services), Christoph Thiedig (The Research Core Dataset for the German science system: structure, application and the role of the library), Alexander Wagner (APC management in institutional repositories), Monika Wechsler & Michael Wilde (Medical students from Basel become medical information professionals: med.info.pro as a blended learning unit for searching medical information), Claudia Wöckel (LearningSpace at UB Leipzig) and Dagmar Härter (Medical libraries: open and innovative by tradition - annual meeting 2018 of the German MLA (AGMB), September 10th to 12th at Oldenburg). Furthermore, this focus issue features articles from Oliver Obst & Matthias Klaus Linsenmaier (Usage and usefulness of information resources during the sub-internship: a study at the medical faculty of the University Münster), Oliver Weiner & Katrin Wibker (Results of a survey among medical libraries in German-speaking countries in 2017) and Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News; Competition of the German MLA (AGMB) „Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2018: introduction of the winners; German MLA (AGMB) competition „Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2019 - announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences is the largest library worldwide in the field of life sciences. From October 2016 to June 2018 Dietrich Nelle was its interim managing director. In this interview, he informs about ZB MED's evaluation, realignment and cooperations. Furthermore, he speaks about open access, German Medical Science, research data management and research activities at ZB MED. Moreover, Nelle explains the position paper “Academic libraries 2025', which he co-authored, and gives insight into his motivation to become provisional head of ZB MED. Finally, he drafts a possible way for the instituion's resumption into the Leibniz Association in January 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Libraries of Austrian universities - federal universities, private universities and universities of applied sciences - as well as libraries of other research facilities cooperate in many fields. The article focuses on collaborations of facilities with a medical key aspect within the Austrian Library Network, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium and the Council of Austrian University Libraries. Furthermore infrastructure projects run by these libraries in the fields of online repositories, research data management and open access are portrayed. Finally the GMLA working group of Austrian medical librarians is introduced as an important forum for librarians of the spheres of medicine, pharmacy and public health to exchange their experiences and ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2017 lists all articles from GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of EAHIL: European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In December the higher education structural funds project (Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekt) "Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)" was authorised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. The 21 public universities cooperate on this project running from 2017 to 2020 in order to promote open access through concerted measures. Constitutive on OANA's "suggestions for the implementation of Open Access in Austria" published in 2015 four subprojects have been developed. These subprojects' main focuses are drafting an expert's report about the financial impact of a total adjustment to open access on a national and institutional basis, the extension of existing consortium licences with an open access component, establishment of an open access publishing fund as well as the promotion of open access monographs and suitable open access infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2017 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek -Information is the annual conference 2017 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Vienna. The motto of the conference was "Medical Libraries: inter:disciplinary - inter:national - inter:active". The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer (Austrian Transition to Open Access 2017-2020), Beata Górczynska (Development and structure of Polish veterinary school system and its libraries), Katharina Heldt, Henriette Senst & Jessica Riedel (Salon on the institute's history: outstanding artifacts. 28.01.2016 to 15.12.2016), Jutta Matrisciano, Martina Semmler-Schmetz & Saskia Rohmer (Advice - From info snack to special menu: Solutions of the MedMA-Bib), Stefan Nortmann (The 'Ersti-Café' of the Medical Branch Library Münster), Sandra Rümmele (Toolbox: The new teaching library project of the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), Eva Seidlmayer & Christoph Poley (One Health -TransdisciplinarityatZB MED) and Heike Andermann ("Medical Libraries: inter:disciplinary - inter:national -inter:active". Annual Meeting of the German Medical Library Association (AGMB), September 25 to 27, 2017 in Vienna). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Stefan Grün & Christoph Poley (Statistical evaluation of semantic entities from metadata and full text on German Medical Science corpora) and Iris Reimann (German MLA News; Competition of the German MLA Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2017: Introduction of the winners; Competition of the German MLA (AGMB) Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2018 - Announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2016 lists all articles from GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2016 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek -Information is on the annual conference 2016 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Göttingen. The motto of the conference was "Medical libraries today. Spaces in digital transformation". The authors in this issue are Ursula Arning, Birte Lindstädt & Jasmin Schmitz (PUBLISSO: an open access publication portal for life sciences), Ursula Arning & Robin Rothe (ZB MED - specialist for open access publishing in the life sciences), Andreas Bohne-Lang (Semantic metadata for a library website), Petra Burkert("Besuch&Buch": Graz Public Library and its home library service for senior and homebound citizens. A geronto-logical approach), Stefan Grosjean ("e-Day" in Bern: promoting e-re-sources through an all-day event), Dagmar Härter (The implementation of a parent-child area in the medical library of the SUB Göttingen), Christoph Poley (LIVIVO: new challenges for ZB MED's search portal for life sciences), Sergio Trevisan (Biblioteca Medica in Trento and the project "There is a child in the hospital ... Give him a book!"), Christian Vogel (Newsletter as a wide-reaching and efficient communication tool in a hospital group online library) and GeorgZippenfenig& David Frank (Medical libraries today. Spaces in digital transformation - Annual Meeting 2016 of the German MLA, September 26th to 28th in Göttingen). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Iris Reimann (German MLA(AGMB) News; Competition of the German MLA(AGMB) "Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2016: Introduction of the winners; Competition of the German MLA(AGMB) "Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2017 - Announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In its statement of March 17th, 2016 Leibnitz Association's senate recommends to stop the co-funding of ZB MED -- Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences. Immediately after this announcement public incitements endorsing the persistence of ZB MED were published by medical institutions and libraries. Also on the internet initiatives were taken especially by the action group #keepzbmed whose petition was signed by 9,607 people. The controversy also reached the German Bundestag. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2015 lists all articles from GMS Medizin -- Bibliothek -- Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information -- Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 1-2/2018 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is on cooperation of medical libraries. The authors in this issue are Martina Semmler-Schmetz, Jutta Matrisciano, Oliver Weiner & Iris Reimann (Cooperations with internal and external partners: examples from diverse service areas of medical university libraries), Sandra Rümmele & Friederike Wille (Cooperations of the Central Medical Library at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), Susanne Pütz- Jagner (Cooperation with libraries in Germany concerning archiving rules for medical print journals in Germany), Bruno Bauer (Cooperations in literature and information supply of medical faculties and universities in Austria) and Dietrich Nelle & Bruno Bauer (A 10-question interview with Dietrich Nelle, the interim director of ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Science, by Bruno Bauer). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Bruno Bauer (The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2017) and Iris Reimann (German MLA News). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With its new general programme "Horizon 2020" the European Commission has made research data an essential topic of science policy and research funding. Over the last few years numerous universities and research facilities have felt out the current documentary practices of their researchers by surveys. In 2015 within the framework of e-Infrastructures Austria there was a survey in which 3,000 researchers of 20 public universities and 3 extramural research institutions participated. This report shows several findings as well as suggestions derived from the survey about the preferable future of research data management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2015 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is the annual conference 2015 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Mannheim. The motto of the conference was "Libraries in progress". The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer (Research data - a new field of activity (also) for libraries), Markus Fischer (Search filter for local holdings in bibnet.org), Ursula Georgy (Strategic marketing: Benefit positioning strategy of libraries as a content provider in competition), Mareike Grisse (Reading and understanding licensing agreements for electronic resources), Regine Küfner Lein (Access to medical full texts and databases in Norway by national licensing), Annette Kustos (Collection management and service concept at the academic library of the Hochschule für Gesundheit), Oliver Weiner (Medical documents in university repositories), Sabine Buroh (Impressions from the EAHIL Workshop, Edinburgh, 10-12 June 2015), Mareike Grisse (Supra-regional availability of licensed electronic content - ZB MEDs' new models), Jana Pössel (LIVIVO: The new ZB MED search portal for life sciences), Jasmin Schmitz (Offering advice on open access publishing in libraries), Fabian Gail (Product and innovation management ZB MED) and Dagmar Härter (Medical libraries: libraries in progress - annual meeting 2015 of the German MLA, September 7th to 9th at Basel, Switzerland). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Eike Hentschel (Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2015: Introduction of the winners) and Iris Reimann (German MLA News; Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2016 - Announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2014 lists all articles from GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian’s Bibliography 2014 lists all articles from GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to scientific knowledge was published in October 2003. All over the world initiatives and projects were started. However, in Austria Open Access got little attention over many years. This was confirmed by a study among Austrian universities on behalf of the Council of Austrian University Libraries. Finally at the turn of the year 2012/2013 the Open Access Network Austria and the university infrastructure project E-Infrastructure Austria were started to push Open Access in Austria on a national level. So 10 years after the Berlin Declaration Austria set up the preconditions to establish sustainable Open Access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report contains information about two sessions atthe Open Access Days 2014. These speeches were given on transformation strategies for subscription-based journals and on open access perspectives for journals from medical societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2014 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is the annual conference 2014 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Mannheim. The motto of the conference was "Medical libraries: Information2". The authors in this issue are Michaele Adam (Bibliometrics 2.0 - Altmetrics in Medicine), Bruno Bauer (Open access cooperation in Austria: Open Access Network Austria and E-Infrastructures Austria - recent developments since 2012), Fabian Gail & Ulrich Korwitz (Market and strategy - results of the ZB MED market study), Sabine Gehrlein (Library goes Anatomy: Anatomical teaching media at Heidelberg University Library), Kaja Scheliga (Opening science: New publication forms in science), Ulrike Ostrzinski (The four types of social media user in the academic and research community. Results of a nationwide study), Sandra Pfob & Alena Ittner (First aid for library use on PC: webinars increase library visits, reach everyone, save costs), Simone Waldboth (Integration of e-learning in the lecture "Information Literacy" at the Provincial College for Health-Care Professions Claudiana), Maike Piegler (The pick up box of the library of the Hamburg medical association - a way to bring scientific information to medical specialists) and Christoph Wehrmüller & Heidrun Janka (Medical libraries: Information - Annual meeting 2014 of the German MLA, September 22nd to 24th in Mannheim). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Bruno Bauer (Open access: transformation strategies for subscription-based journals: Report on the 8th Open Access Days at Cologne, September 8 - 9 2014), Eike Hentschel (German MLA News; Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2014: Introduction of the winners; Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2015 - Announcement) and Franz J. Kühnen (Klaus Gerber 1934-2014). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 1-2/2017 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is on "Medical historic sources at Viennese universities". The authors in this issue are Zuzana Ráczová (Historical Archive of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna), Harald Albrecht (Medical historic stock of the University Library of the Medical University of Vienna: Nine historic libraries at the Branch Library for Medical History with examples of their stocks) and Walter Mentzel (Medical historic stock of the University Library of the Medical University of Vienna. Virtual libraries at the Branch Library for Medical History: Search of evidence). Furthermore this focus issue features articles by Henriette Senst and Katharina Heldt (The role of the library in the research lifecycle using the example of the Robert Koch Institute's library. A field report), Marta Nadraga (Medical university libraries in Ukraine), Bruno Bauer (The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2016; 7th meeting of the AGMB working group of Austrian medical librarians (AGMB.AT) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna on May 15th 2017) and Iris Reimann (German MLA News). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On May 15th 2007, the AGMB working group of Austrian medical librarians (AGMB.AT) held its annual meeting at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. The conference program covered a broad variety of topics and included library collection development policy, off-campus access, library training courses, scanning service for in-house document delivery, implementation of the new library management system ALMA and two funding projects for Austrian universities, i.e., "e-Infrastructures Austria Plus" and "Austrian Transition to Open Access". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2013 lists all articles from GMS Medizin -- Bibliothek -- Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information -- Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 1-2/2014 of GMS Medizin -- Bibliothek -- Information is on "Teaching Library: information literacy instruction at medical libraries". The authors in this issue are Marina Betker & Annette Kustos (Literature research training in health sciences in a new academic library -- straight through and strategic planning: the concept of the "hsg Bochum"), Simone Waldboth (Integration of e-learning in the lecture "Information Literacy" at the Provincial College for Health- Care Professions „Claudiana“), Michaele Adam & Jens Mittelbach (Shaping the Future at the SLUB Dresden with Information Literacy in the Research Cycle), Gregor Steinrisser (Sucessfully failing -- Fiction and Friction of a teaching library in university and clinical daily routine), Melanie Kintzel & Norbert Sunderbrink (Information literacy classes at the Medical Library of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), Markus Schmiel (The teaching and learning concept of the Library of the Hannover Medical School), Jutta Matrisciano & Martina Semmler- Schmetz (Teaching Library -- Realization of a concept with many facets at the Library for the Medical Faculty of Mannheim), Karin Cepicka („Teaching Library“ at the Library oft the Medical University Vienna), Helmut Dollfuß (Library user education for the new curriculum at the Medical University Vienna), Manuela Rohrmoser & Irene Schachl (The cooperations of teaching librarians at Vienna University Library) und Claudia Hausberger & David Frank (Curriculum reform -- a work report from the Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since January 2013 the university library of the Medical University Vienna provides its users with current research literature only in the form of electronic journals, printed journals were canceled. After the first year of the new era the library draws a positive conclusion. The article describes this radical change in the provision of literature at the university. Preliminary considerations and analyzes are given for library user behavior and for spatial, financial and human resources. Furthermore, the goals of the transition to e-only are described. The phase of transition and related organizational tasks are described and future steps for optimization are listed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2013 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is the annual conference 2013 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Berlin. The motto of the conference was "Medical librariesbeta - Change is the constant". The authors in this issue are Michaele Adam (Open access publishing in medicine - in the focus of bibliometrics at the SLUB Dresden), Bruno Bauer, Helmut Dollfuβ & Daniel Formanek (The university library at the Medical University Vienna goes e-only. Change in the provision of literature from p+e to e-only on January 1st, 2013), Henriette Senst & Jens Erling (The teaching services of the Robert Koch-Institute's library) and Martina Semmler-Schmetz & Jutta Matrisciano (Medical Librariesbeta - Change is the Constant. Annual meeting 2013 of the German MLA (AGMB), September 16th to 18th in Berlin). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Oliver Obst & Verena Salewsky (How do today's students learn? An e-book study of the branch library of medicine, University of Münster) and from Oliver Obst, Christiane Hofmann, Helge Knüttel & Petra Zöller ("Ask a question, get an answer, continue your work!" - Survey on the use of UpToDate at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Münster and Regensburg). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2012 lists all articles from GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information and selected publications relevant to medical librarians from following journals: ABI Technik, Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen & Bibliographie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 1-2/2016 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is on the future of ZB MED. The authors of the focus articles are Klaus-Rainer Brintzinger (ZBMED:What value comes to library infrastructure within science?), Iris Reimann (The importance of ZBMED for the German MLA / AGMB) and Bruno Bauer (No future for ZB MED! Or maybe: a future for ZB MED?). Furthermore this issue features articles from Maurizio Grilli (A practical method for systematic searching of literature in medical libraries), Oliver Obst (Use of tablets for the study of medicine. Part 2: The project easyphysikum), Jana Pössel (Usability test of the new ZB MED search portal LIVIVO), Holger Laube, Alena Ittner, Sandra Pfob and Alexander Schröder (Fast as lightning to literature: ordering of literature in flow), Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News) and Bruno Bauer (The Med- ical Librarian's Bibliography 2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]