Medizinbibliotheken: Information2

The focus of the current issue 3/2014 of GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information is the annual conference 2014 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Mannheim. The motto of the conference was “Medical libraries: Information2”. The authors in this issue are Michaele Adam (Bibliometrics 2.0 – Altmetrics in Medicine), Bruno Bauer (Open access cooperation in Austria: Open Access Network Austria and E-Infrastructures Austria – recent developments since 2012), Fabian Gail & Ulrich Korwitz (Market and strategy – results of the ZB MED market study), Sabine Gehrlein (Library goes Anatomy: Anatomical teaching media at Heidelberg University Library), Kaja Scheliga (Opening science: New publication forms in science), Ulrike Ostrzinski (The four types of social media user in the academic and research community. Results of a nationwide study), Sandra Pfob & Alena Ittner (First aid for library use on PC: webinars increase library visits, reach everyone, save costs), Simone Waldboth (Integration of e-learning in the lecture “Information Literacy” at the Provincial College for Health-Care Professions Claudiana), Maike Piegler (The pick up box of the library of the Hamburg medical association – a way to bring scientific information to medical specialists) and Christoph Wehrmüller & Heidrun Janka (Medical libraries: Information2 – Annual meeting 2014 of the German MLA, September 22nd to 24th in Mannheim). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Bruno Bauer (Open access: transformation strategies for subscription-based journals: Report on the 8th Open Access Days at Cologne, September 8–9 2014), Eike Hentschel (German MLA News; Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2014: Introduction of the winners; Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2015 – Announcement) and Franz J. Kühnen (Klaus Gerber 1934–2014)