Medizinbibliotheken: offen und innovativ aus Tradition

The focus of the current issue 3/2018 of GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information is on the annual conference 2018 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Oldenburg. The motto of the conference was “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)