News 
May 8, 2009
Research in Medical Education ? Chances and Challenges International Conference online
How Good is Medical Education? - Under this central question, the first
International Congress "Research in Medical Education - Chances and
Challenges" took place in Heidelberg on May 20 - 22, 2009.
April 27, 2009
126. Congress of the German Association of Surgery online
The 126th Congress of the German Association of Surgery will be organized from 28.04.09 - 01.05.09 in Munich.
The German society of surgery is the stable roof of 9 scientific associations of surgery, and they all will
present their actual topics and the main topics given by the president. Nearly 300 scientific, clinical, occupational
and organizational sessions will be held.The abstracts of the scientific contributions are available online via the
portal German Medical Science http://www.egms.de/en/meetings/dgch2009/.
April 9, 2009
Open Access and copyrights: no attack on freedom of publication
In the name of ZB MED, one of the GMS partners, who, as a member of the
Leibniz Association, takes an active part in the Alliance of German Science Organisations (Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen),
we would like to draw your attention to a recent statement of the Alliance.
It contains a detailed response to the accusations recently published in a statement "In Favour of Freedom of Publication and Copyright Protection" (Für Publikationsfreiheit und die Wahrung der Urheberrechte),
also known as "Heidelberger Appell", signed by numerous publishers and authors, which had emerged from a debate in German media that is summed up
here (in German or in
English via Google Translate).
In particular, the "Heidelberger Appell" claims that OA supporters like the Alliance and ZB MED intend to limit authors' freedom of publication in a way that violates the German constitution,
which is an unacceptable allegation. On the contrary: we strive to provide scientists with the best-possible information infrastructure so they can excel in their research.
December 2, 2008
Payment for online publications
Until December 31, 2008, GMS authors with their residence in Germany may
apply for a special payment for their online publications. For more
information, have a look at http://www.vgwort.de/metis_sonderaus.php.
November 26, 2008
New service: Full-text linking for journal articles
Abstracts or full texts of cited literature in scientific articles are becoming more and
more available on the internet. Since recently the references of journal articles in the GMS
portal are linked to the corresponding document on the web via the Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
the GMS editorial office complements the references of a journal article with their DOIs, if available,
and sets a link to the corresponding electronic document. DOI is a system for permanent identification
of electronic objects in the internet (http://www.doi.org/)
ensuring their permanent addressability and therefore citability.
November 7, 2008
15th Annual Meeting of the GAA online
The 15th conference of the German Drug Utilisation Research Group (GAA, e.V.)
will take place on 20th and 21st of November 2008 in Bonn. This year the conference
has its special focus on pharmacovigilance and risk mitigation.Further information at http://www.gaa-arzneiforschung.de/e353/index_ger.html.
The abstracts are published on the GMS website at http://www.egms.de/en/meetings/gaa2008/.
October 22, 2008
17th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Thoracic Surgery online
The 17th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Thoracic Surgery themed "Science and economy - benchmarking
in thoracic surgery" took place from September 11 to 13, 2008 in Bremen.The abstracts of the meeting are now available online via the portal German Medical Science: http://www.egms.de/en/meetings/dgt2008/.
