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. You can find information material about the FID Pharmazie, and the drug-centred search platform PubPharm here.

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

• A Library Perspective on Supervised Text Processing in Digital Libraries: An Investigation in the Biomedical Domain (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2024)

• Ranking Narrative Query Graphs for Biomedical Document Retrieval (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2024)

• Building an Explainable Graph-based Biomedical Paper Recommendation System (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2024)

• Narrativer Informationszugriff interdisziplinär - Chancen und Herausforderungen für Fachinformationsdienste (O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2023)

• Innovative Recherchetools für das Screening von Literatur zu Long COVID: Eine kooperative Zusammenarbeit zwischen RKI, ZB MED und PubPharm (GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2023)

• A discovery system for narrative query graphs: entity-interaction-aware document retrieval (International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2023)

• A detailed library perspective on nearly unsupervised information extraction workflows in digital libraries (International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2023)

• Binding Data Narrations - Corroborating the Plausibility of Scientific Narratives by Open Research Data (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2023)

• Enriching Simple Keyword Queries for Domain-Aware Narrative Retrieval (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2023)

• Neue PubPharm-Tools – Gezielter suchen, Überblick gewinnen  (Krankenhauspharmazie, Volume 44, Issue 1, 2023)

• On Design Principles for Narrative Information Systems (IJCAI/ECAI Workshop on Semantic Techniques for Narrative-based Understanding, 2022)

• On Dimensions of Plausibility for Narrative Information Access to Digital Libraries (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 2022)

• What a Publication Tells You – Benefits of Narrative Information Access in Digital Libraries (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2022)

• A Library Perspective on Nearly-Unsupervised Information Extraction Workflows in Digital Libraries (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2022)

• 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
• Katrin Stump M.A., Library Director, Braunschweig University Library (until April 30, 2022)

University Library Braunschweig:

• Pharmacist Dr. Christina Draheim, project coordination
• Pharmacist Jennifer Hoppe, subject matter expert and public relations
• Jannis Ohms, information technology and infrastructure
• Konrad Lauenroth, information technology and infrastructure
• Vinzenz Fiebach, information technology and infrastructure

Institute for Information Systems at TU Braunschweig:

• Denis Nagel
• Muhammad Usman
• Hermann Kroll (until June 30, 2025)
• Janus Wawrzinek (until August 31, 2021)

NFDI4Chem consortium:

• Dr. Jan Linxweiler
• Dr. Christina Draheim
• Dr. Benjamin Golub
• Devang Patel (until December 31, 2023)

Contact:

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

Previous projects:

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