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ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences

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ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences

Summary

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is a national library[1]. It draws 49 Wikipedia views per month (national_library category, ranking #53 of 175).[2]

Key Facts

  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences was a member of Informationsdienst Wissenschaft[3].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences was a member of North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre[4].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences was a member of Leibniz Library Network for Research Information[5].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences was a member of German National Research Data Infrastructure[6].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences was a member of DataCite[7].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences was a member of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions[8].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is located in Cologne[9].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is located in Bonn[10].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is located in North Rhine-Westphalia[11].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is in the country of Germany[12].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's instance of is recorded as national library[13].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's instance of is recorded as central specialist library[14].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's instance of is recorded as research institute[15].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's instance of is recorded as library[16].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's headquarters location is recorded as Cologne[17].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences took place at Cologne[18].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's postal code is recorded as 50931[19].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's Commons category is recorded as ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften[20].
  • 1973 marks the founding of ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences[21].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 50.924567, 'lon': 6.916296}[22].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 50.72675, 'lon': 7.0865277777777775}[23].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 50.92466, 'lon': 6.91666}[24].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's official website is recorded as https://www.zbmed.de/[25].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's participant in is recorded as OA Switchboard[26].
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'ZB MED – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften'}[27].

Body

Founding

1973 marks the founding of ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences[21].

Identity

Official names include {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'ZB MED – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften'}[27] and {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften'}[28]. ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'ZB MED'}[29].

Operations

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences's headquarters location is recorded as Cologne[17].

Why It Matters

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences draws 49 Wikipedia views per month (national_library category, ranking #53 of 175).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Germany research institute

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . ld.zdb-services.de. ld.zdb-services.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . zbmed.de. zbmed.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] ↑ . ld.zdb-services.de. ld.zdb-services.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [19] ↑ . ld.zdb-services.de. ld.zdb-services.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [3] ↑ . idw-online.de. Retrieved . idw-online.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [4] ↑ . directory of German Library Codes. wikidata.org.
  15. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [6] ↑ . nfdi.de. nfdi.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [7] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [8] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ld.zdb-services.de. ld.zdb-services.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . oaswitchboard.org. Retrieved . oaswitchboard.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . directory of German Library Codes. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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