The Information and Documentation Centre on Ethics in Medicine (IDEM) works in cooperation with the ZB MED Information Centre for Live Sciences and its virtual special library for medicine LIVIVO in Köln, with the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) in Bonn, and with the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) in Tübingen.

In December 2013, the European Commission published the Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data for the EU Research Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Under Horizon 2020, the publication of project results can be reimbursed as direct project costs. (PDF)

Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) offers free access to biomedical literature resources including:  PubMed abstracts (about 28 million),  Europe PMC full text articles (about 2.6 million, of which over 570,000 are Open Access), Patent abstracts (over 4 million European, US, and International), National Health, Service (NHS) clinical guidelines, Agricola records (500,000), Supplemented with Chinese Biological Abstracts.