Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net

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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 goal is a fully open source, federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support. While PubMed’s output is open, PubMed itself isn’t open source. It’s critical that support and pressure for the goal of independent, open source infrastructure of the life sciences literature comes from as many directions as possible. The project is called OLSPub, for open life science publication database, and its internet home is here.