Specialised Information Service Pharmacy

The PubPharm search platform (www.pubpharm.de) is a freely available, drug-centred search engine for pharmaceutical literature and information resources.

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Further information can be found in the summary of our work areas and on the PubPharm Help webpage. The PubPharm Blog provides information on current developments.

Press

• Fachinformationsdienst Pharmazie – deutschlandweiter Service für die universitäre pharmazeutische Forschung (TU Braunschweig - press release, 25.02.2021)
• 2,2 Mio. Euro für den Fachinformationsdienst Pharmazie (TU Braunschweig - press release, 18.12.2017)
• PubPharm: Gezielt pharmazeutisch suchen (Pharmazeutische Zeitung Online, 7.10.2016)
• Pharmazeutische Forschung - Interdisziplinär und facettenreich (Report DPhG Annual Meeting) (Pharmazeutische Zeitung, Issue 41/2016)
• Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig: Maßgeschneiderte Services für die bundesweite Pharmazieforschung (TU Braunschweig - press release, 01/2015)

Publications

• Narrative Information Access for a Precise and Structured Literature Search (O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal, Volume 8, Issue 4, 2021)

• Drug-Disease-Networks: Innovatives PubPharm-Recherchetool (GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2021)

• Narrative Query Graphs for Entity-Interaction-Aware Document Retrieval (International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, 2021)

• Open Information Extraction in Digital Libraries: Current Challenges and Open Research Questions  (1th International Workshop on Digital Infrastructures for Scholarly Content Objects, 2021)

• A Toolbox for the Nearly-Unsupervised Construction of Digital Library Knowledge Graphs (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2021)

• Demonstrating Narrative Bindings: Linking Discourses to Knowledge Repositories (4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts, 2021)
• Die Rechercheplattform PubPharm (GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information, Volume 20, Issue 3, 2020)
• PubPharm (Data sheet in RefHunter - Manual zur Literaturrecherche in Fachdatenbanken, Version 4.0, 2020)

• A Semantically Enriched Dataset based on Biomedical NER for the COVID19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (arXiv preprint, 2020)

• Modeling Narrative Structures in Logical Overlays on top of Knowledge Repositories (International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2020)

• Context-Compatible Information Fusion for Scientific Knowledge Graphs (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 2020)

• Exploiting Latent Semantic Subspaces to Derive Associations for Specific Pharmaceutical Semantics (Data Science and Engineering, 2020)

• Semantic Disambiguation of Embedded Drug-Disease Associations using Semantically Enriched Deep-Learning Approaches (International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2020)

• Mining Semantic Subspaces to Express Discipline-Specific Similarities (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2020)

• Explainable Word-Embeddings for Medical Digital Libraries – a Context-Aware Approach (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2020)

• Linking Semantic Fingerprints of Literature – from Simple Neural Embeddings Towards Contextualized Pharmaceutical Networks (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 2019).

• Die Rechercheplattform PubPharm (GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information, Volume 19, Issue 3, 2019)

• PubPharm – Gemeinsam von der informationswissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung zum nachhaltigen Service (ABI Technik, Volume 39, Issue 4, 2019)

• PubPharm - die Rechercheplattform (PZ-Prisma, Issue 2/2019)

• Measuring the Semantic World – How to Map Meaning to High-Dimensional Entity Clusters in PubMed? (International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, 2018)

• PubPharm - Der Fachinformationsdienst Pharmazie (Pharmakon, Issue 4/2018)
• Fachinformationsdienst Pharmazie: Zwischen Spitzenforschung und verlässlicher Infrastruktur (Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 2018, Issue 2-3, Year 65)

• Semantic Facettation in Pharmaceutical Collections Using Deep Learning for Active Substance Contextualization (International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, 2017)

• PubPharm Rechercheplattform (Pharmakon, Issue 1/2017)
• PubPharm - Der Fachinformationsdienst Pharmazie (o-bib Das offene Bibliotheksjournal Volume 3, Issue 3, 2016)

Further press reports , publications and information on presentations can be found on the PubPharm Blog. More detailed information on public relations is presented in the description of the work areas.

Project Management:

• Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke, Institute for Information Systems at TU Braunschweig
• Robert Strötgen, Deputy Library Director, Braunschweig University Library (temporary)
• Katrin Stump M.A., Director, Braunschweig University Library (until April 30, 2022)

University Library Braunschweig:

• Pharmacist Stefan Wulle, project coordination
• Pharmacist Dr. Christina Draheim, subject matter expert and public relations
• Jannis Ohms, information technology and infrastructure
• Konrad Lauenroth, information technology and infrastructure
• Dr. Denitsa Eckweiler, data engineering

Institute for Information Systems at TU Braunschweig:

• Muhammad Usman
• Hermann Kroll
• Janus Wawrzinek (until August 31, 2021)

NFDI4Chem consortium:

• Benjamin Golub, subject matter expert (electronic lab notebook) and public relations
• Devang Patel, optimisation electronic lab notebook Chemotion

Contact:

• E-Mail: pubpharm(at)tu-braunschweig.de
• Phone: +49 (0) 531 391 5046, or +49 (0) 531 391 5003 and 5027

Previous projects:

• Sondersammelgebiet Pharmazie (in German)
• Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Pharmazie - ViFaPharm