(14 May 2025) On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to PubMed.
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. If PubMed as it is now falls, then this “PubMed 2.0” could carry the load forward. And if PubMed powers on, then aspects of what’s developed would be available for the NLM and any other services to use.
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