"Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net."
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

" #Germany has stepped up to this challenge. On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine ( #ZBMED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to #PubMed."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenInfrastructure#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

My question for #researchers in the fields of #biology , #genetics , #medecine , etc... is are we going to be ready for the possibility of #PubMed and other #NIH online databases and services becoming one of the many casualties of the current #US administration and its increasingly unreliable #HHS department?

This is an interesting opportunity for the broader international research community to create a more distributed, resilient alternative. Scientists, citizen or otherwise... any ideas? #phd

"The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure in Germany, nor to simply transplant a centralized system from the US to Germany. The goal is a fully open source, federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support."

@hildabast, 2025

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

The project account; @ZBMED.

#OpenScience#PubMed#ZBMED

"The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure in Germany, nor to simply transplant a centralized system from the US to Germany. The goal is a fully open source, federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support."

@hildabast, 2025

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

The project account; @ZBMED.

#OpenScience#PubMed#ZBMED

Update pour les Mastonautes qui veulent les dernières mises à jour sur les risques encourus par PubMed :
- J'ai publié une nouvelle version de la note aujourd'hui : https://zenodo.org/records/15481800
- Si vous voulez déprimer pendant 1h15, je suis intervenu sur le sujet à MediaM la semaine dernière, et c'est sur canal-u : https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/callisto/point-d-actualite-pubmed-sous-l-administration-trump-12052025

La grosse bonne nouvelle (qui est sortie après la vidéo), c'est le projet de la ZB MED de développer un PubMed européen ! C'est le projet OLSPub, détaillé ici (page en allemand et en anglais) : https://www.zbmed.de/forschen/laufende-projekte/olspub. La page est régulièrement mise à jour, et la ZB MED a lancé un appel à soutiens.

#pubmed #medline #medlibs

"Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net."
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

" #Germany has stepped up to this challenge. On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine ( #ZBMED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to #PubMed."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenInfrastructure#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Update. "Because of #Trump: [The German] Central Library of #Medicine builds alternative to US database."
https://www.heise.de/news/Wegen-Trump-Zentralbibliothek-Medizin-baut-Alternative-zu-US-Datenbank-auf-10372291.html

From Google's English: "The German National Library of Medicine ( #ZBMed) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable, and sustainable alternative" to the #PubMed database, one of the most important and comprehensive resources for biomedical literature worldwide. The meta-database, with references to relevant articles and over 38 million citations, is operated by the National Library of Medicine ( #NLM), a division of the National Institutes of Health ( #NIH) in the United States. ZB Med is responding to concerns that the US administration under Donald Trump is cutting funding for the NIH. There are also fears that political influences could compromise PubMed's scientific integrity."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Germany #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

How it started and how it's going...
PubMed in 2013 and PubMed in 2025

Yes, 12 years of complete inaction on #PubMed and all the other thousands of research databases hosted by single points of failure. What does it take for #science to wake up from hibernation and leave its digital cave?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00674-3

#medicine #academicchatter

Update. Therese Choquette ran searches on #PubMed and may have found gaps corresponding to terms banned by the #Trump admin.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/therese-choquette-former-vallerskog-1531132_pubmed-activity-7301996327691816961-afAN?rcm=ACoAAADEjlkBbyOxuygZagmqeEC6540rx1UQQSs

PS: Unfortunately she compared US PubMed with Europe PubMed Central, which is apples to oranges. (PubMed is metadata-only and PMC is full text.) Can we crowdsource some systematic searches comparing (1) PubMed now with PubMed before Trump, e.g. in the Wayback Machine, and (2) US PMC with Europe PMC?

#DefendResearch #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

Friends and colleagues: if you have published work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federally-controlled architecture, I strongly encourage you to find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). We support all fields, all languages, all geographical locations. Join us and ensure that your work can remain available to all. https://works.hcommons.org

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

#DataGov#DefendResearch#Libraries#OpenData#Preservation #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics