From June 2nd to 4th, 2015, the 6th Annual Medical Branch CALIS (China Academic Library & Information System) Conference was held in Harbin, China. Deans of medical library from mainland Chinese universities as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan gathered together to attend this meeting.

The annual conference invites leaders from university’s medical libraries across the country to share experiences and to discuss about the future plans. At this year’s meeting, many experts gave wonderful reports and stimulated thoughtful discussions.

The academic communication focused on the following topics: the development for future medical libraries, the acquisition for digital medical content, the innovation for library services, the applications of ‘Big Data’ in medical health area as well as the impact and changes it brings to the service of a library.

Ms. April Zheng, Sales Executive from BioMed Central China gave a presentation on the conference. The topic of her presentation was: BioMed Central - providing Open Access solution to medical libraries.

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