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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]

This paper presents the results of the OBV working group "Repositories in the Austrian Library Network". The aim of the working group was to develop a guideline for the registration of metadata for objects in repositories, which would contribute to the development of uniform standards in this regard, and with the help of which it should subsequently be possible to identify repository holdings in Alma or in the Austrian Union Catalogue without creating duplicates. Further goals were the development of recommendations for a central provision of metadata of open access publications to simplify local workflows (analogous to the DFG-funded project DeepGreen) by means of partial automation, as well as recommendations for establishing a tab for open access materials in the search engine of the Austrian Library Network (analogous to the tabs "Literature", "Theses and Dissertations" and "Bequests / Autographs"). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the cancellation of the 109. Deutscher Bibiothekartag (109th German Librarian Day), which should have taken place in Hannover from Mai 26th to 29th 2020, the Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB) and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library – together with #vBIB20 organised at short notice a virtual conference about library topics from May 26th to 28th 2020. In this cooperative report lectures are presented about publication system, Open Access, research data management, library statistics and provenance research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paolo Budroni has been working in the university sector since 1991. At the beginning he answers questions about his professional career in the field of research documentation and research data management. The interview addresses national and international projects and initiatives for research data management with a focus on the European Open Science Cloud. Finally, Budroni encourages libraries to actively implement the concept of Open Science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the president of the Association of Austrian Librarians informs about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the association's activities and the necessary adaptions of the key subjects during the term of office 2019–2021. [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]

In this article the new elected president informs about the list of the members of the executive committee 2019 to 2021 and about the key activities in the current period of office. [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]

For a long time, the funding of innovative cooperation projects of university libraries at public universities with central funds was a desideratum. Start-up financing for university cooperation projects, including administrative projects, was provided by the calls for proposals for the Higher Education Area Structural Funding projects in 2013 and 2017, respectively, by the Federal Ministry responsible for science. Among the projects that were selected by the Federal Ministry were also five designed on the initiative of the Forum Universitätsbibliotheken Österreichs. The topics range from repositories and research data to Open Access and Open Educational Resources to procurement law for scholarly literature. The results already presented and the pro-jects still to be implemented make an important contribution to ensuring that the information infrastructure in Austria can be developed competitively and future-proof for research and teaching in a European and international context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current issue of the „Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians“ (Mitteilungen der VÖB) is dedicated to the topic Austrian Transition to Open Access, a Higher Education Area Structural Funding project lasting 2017–2020, in which all 21 Austrian public universities are involved. The special issue includes an overview article on the project, contributions on the four subprojects and an overview of the Higher Education Structural Research projects (2014–2020) co-funded by the Federal Ministry of Science, in which libraries of the public universities have been or are involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

„Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)" ist ein Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekt zur Förderung von Open Access an den 21 öffentlichen Universitäten in Österreich mit der Laufzeit 2017–2020. AT2OA widmet sich in vier Teilprojekten den Themen (1) Analyse der Auswirkung einer Umstellung auf Open Access, (2) der Finanzierung von Open-Access-Übergangsmodellen, (3) dem Auf-, Ausbau und der Finanzierung von OA-Publikationsfonds und (4) der Förderung von OA-Publikationen und alternativen OA-Publikationsmodellen von Universitäten. The goal of the "Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)" project is to support the large-scale transformation of scientific publications from Closed to Open Access and to implement measures supporting this transformation. The project aims to increase Austria's Open Access publication output by restructuring licence agreements with publishers and by providing targeted support for researchers' publication activities. It will also establish new venues for Open Access publishing. The subprojects will examine the following topics: (1) Impact analysis of the transition to Open Access; (2) Funding for transitional Open Access business models; (3) Publication funds; (4) Support for Open Access publications and alternative Open Access publication models. These subprojects will be supplemented by networking and knowledge transfer activities. [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]

On November 23, 2018 the first version of the internet portal European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was presented at the University of Vienna as part of the Austrian EU Council Presidency. Representatives from politics, science, research funding and the European Commission discussed the concept and meaning of the EOSC and presented its potential with concrete examples. As part of this event the Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science was also publicly presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 107th German Librarians' Day took place from 12 to 15 June 2018 in Berlin. The motto of the conference, which was attended by 4.050 people, was "open and connected". This cooperative report covers the following topics: machine indexing, long-term archiving, requirements for future library management systems, library education, open access, research data and research data management, NS provenance research and quality management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2017 the Austrian Library Network (ALN) is steadily replacing its previous integrated library system software Aleph 500 with the new unified resource management system ALMA. In the interview Wolfgang Hamedinger, director of the Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd, informs about the special challenges of thisendeavour, its implementation so far and the planned next steps. Further topics likeother business areas of the ALN and Austrian Academic LibraryConsortium, fundingn of ALN and characteristics that are distinguishing the Austrian Library Network arealso discussed. In the end Hamedinger answers the question if there will be libraries and library networks in ten years time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between January 2016 and March 2018 the integrated library system Alma was implemented at 14 institutions in the Austrian Library Network (ALN) following a three-phase plan (Conceptual Design, Getting Ready, Implementation). An important role in the process was played by the so-called functional experts, who were in charge of the various ILS functionalities and also serving as liaison to the individual institutions. Eight groups were established in total and comprised experts from the participating libraries in the following areas: data, e-resources, fulfillment, acquisitions, resource management, public services and journals. These were supported by a group in charge of creating a plan for user training and of coordinating the other groups. Most of the work – apart from several meetings held at the Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd (OBVSG) – was conducted via weekly or bimonthly webcalls. For this report representatives of the functional expertsgroups as well as the user training group were invited to present their perspective on implementing Alma in the Austrian Library Network in response to four questions. The replies give a varied picture on the implementation project from the view of those employees that played a vital role in its success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current issue of the „Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare“ (VÖB)/„Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians“ is dedicated to the implementation of Alma in the Austrian Library Network. [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]

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird über aktuelle Projekte und Trends im österreichischen Bibliothekswesen im Jahr 2016 berichtet. Vorgestellt werden Verbundprojekte und Kooperationsprojekte österreichischer Bibliotheken, aktuelle Projekte der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek und des Forums Universitätsbibliotheken Österreichs. Angesprochen werden auch Themen wie Forschungsdaten, Open Access, NS-Provenienzforschung, Bibliotheksausbildung, Tagungen und Publikationen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare sowie Bibliotheks- und Informationspolitik in Österreich. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the development and status quo of repositories in Austria, which have received an important impulse by the project e-Infrastructures Austria. While in the years following the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge" (2003), mainly the areas of publications and Green Open Access were dealt with, but recently research data has become increasingly popular, especially in the context of initiatives like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This upturn is also reflected in the ongoing increase in the number of Austrian repositories listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org). By means of statistical evaluations it was ascertained which types of documents are included in these repositories, which academic disciplines they represent, the extent of their content, which software is used, whether already existing interfaces (such as OAI) are available and which policies are being followed for the respective repositories. [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]

BAM Austria: Working Committee Libraries, Archives, Museums Austria came to the public in 2017 with two activities. On May 11, 2017, a seminar on „Open Access and Linked Open Data“ (LOD) took place in Vienna, to which 25 representatives of libraries, archives and museums were invited. On September 13, 2017, a panel on „Digitalisation in libraries, archives and museums“ was organized in the framework of the 33rd Austrian Library Day in Linz, in which about 90 people took part. [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]

In the final project year of e-Infrastructures Austria, a program for the coordinated expansion and continued development of repositories across Austria, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Commerce (BMWFW), the objectives of the three defined subprojects were successfully met. While at the beginning of the project only 3 institutions in Austria had repositories in place, after three years, 5 institutions had data repositories and 17 institutions had publication servers in use, five more were in development and 3 being planned. In 2016, a „task force dedicated to finding strategies for the management of research data in Austria“ created a Model Policy for Research Data Management at Austrian research institutions. At some partner institutions the topic of data management plans was introduced. The exchange of experiences on technical, organisational, legal, and content related issues could be achieved through Workshops on metadata and long term archiving and particularly through a four-day training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures. Topics related to research data management will fortunately be continued. Apart from the follow-up project e-Infrastructures Austria Plus, there are currently several national publicly funded cooperative projects in place supporting the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science and complying with the requirements of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present contribution informs about current projects and trends in Austrian librarianship in 2015. Network projects and cooperation projects are presented as well as important projects of the Austrian National Library and of the Council of Austrian University Libraries. Themes such as Open Access, research data, provenance research of Nazi looted property, library education, conferences, and publications of the Austrian Association of Librarians and library and information policy in Austria are mentioned. [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]

The 10th Open Access Days took place on October 10-11 at LMU Munich. The event is the largest Open Access conference in the German-speaking countries and assembled over 350 participants. This year's main focus was the transformation of the established scholarly publishing system to Open Access. Our cooperative account provides information about the talks, sessions and plenary session held at the conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This checklist provides an overview of the Open Access policies implemented at Austrian universities and extramural research institutions. Furthermore, the polices adopted at nine public universities are analyzed and the respective text modules are categorized thematically. The second part of the checklist presents measures for the promotion of Open Access following the implementation of an Open Access policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"biografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen" was presented to the public by Federal President Heinz Fischer in Vienna Hofburg State Chancellery on May 26, 2016. Additionally to an account of this event the following article contains speeches of Edith Stumpf-Fischer, Waltraud Heindl and Ilse Korotin on accomplishing this lexicon and its relevance to feminist historiography in Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this 10-question interview Christian Enichlmayr tells us about the start of his career in the publishing business, his library employment at the University Linz and his job change to the Federal Study Library Linz. He was the head of the descendent organization from 1999 to 2015 and therefore responsible for the transformation and modernisation of the former study library into the Upper Austrian State Library. During this time the library building had a major refurbishment and got outstanding annexe. The interview covers im portant topics at the Upper Austrian State Library from the last 17 years, including NS provenance research, the advancement of the digital library and the promotion of the library in order to become a substantial part of the Upper Austrian cultural live. Furthermore Mr. Enichlmayr explains the significance of cooperation among libraries and gives a summary of the meeting of the Austrian Librarian Association in Linz in 2004. In a final point he mentions possible prospects of libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the second year, the FIRSM project entitled e-lnfrastructures Austria has not only established a widely accepted platform for networking forums, meetings and training units, but the first deliverables are also available, which have been instrumental in the overall objective of the development of sustainable archive infrastructure and the consolidation of knowledge in the field of security and provision of digital data. In early 2015, a survey was carried out on the project, which encompassed the scientific and artistic academic staff from the 20 public universities and three non-university research institutions in Austria. The aim was to boost the practical application of research data and coordinate the services offered in this area for existing needs. The survey results show a significant need to catch up in the field of data management. The construction of the technical infrastructure in the area of an electronic document repository (project column A ) for all partners is well advanced, therefore, the concentration in the last year of the project will mainly be on column B (research data). The research data final report forms the basis for a group of experts, which deals with the question of strategy for handling research data and research data management in Austria. Project column C (Knowledge Network) is currently supported in the last year of the project by a centrally organized, four-day training event „Training Seminar for Research Data and e-lnfrastructures“ for all project partners. [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]