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 Basel. 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 conc...