Medizinbibliotheken: inter:disziplinär – inter:national –inter:aktiv

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 (Advice3 – 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 – Transdisciplinarity at ZB 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)