German National Library of Medicine
German National Library of Medicine (German: Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin), abbreviated ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences in Cologne, together with the Bonn site, is the central specialist library for medicine, public health, nutrition, environmental and agricultural sciences in Germany. The focus is on collection development, full text supply and projects in the field of information sciences. ZB MED provides science, research, students and other interested parties with specialist literature and information. It is financed by the Federal Government and Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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| Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The German National Library of Medicine, Cologne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Cologne and Bonn, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type | National library, Medical library, Research library, Research centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scope | medicine, health, nutrition, environment, agriculture, bioinformatics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Established | 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Items collected | books, journals, electronic media | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size | 2.1 million volumes (2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Legal deposit | Yes, for publications in the Federal Republic of Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Budget | €120.75 million + €1,64 million third-party funding and other income (2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Director | Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employees | 176 (2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The medical library was initially formed 1973 through the mergers of several much older institutions. Between 2001 and 2003 it was further expanded to include nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences. As a result, today ZB MED is the world's largest specialist library in its five subjects and the largest medical library in Europe.
On 1 January 2014, the ZB MED was converted into a foundation and given the name ZB MED – Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences.
Through a comprehensive transformation process, ZB MED has developed into an information and research centre for the life sciences. ZB MED is strongly committed to Open Science and is involved in four NFDI projects, e.g. NFDI4Health and NFDI4Microbiota.