Bibliotheken im Fluss

Abstract

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 7 to 9 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).

Keywords

• German Medical Libraries Association
• annual conference 2015
• University Basel
• medical library
• research data
• open access
• licensing
• strategic marketing
• new services
• search portal
• editorial