LIVIVO: Neue Herausforderungen an das ZB MED-Suchportal für Lebenswissenschaften

The German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) has a long track record providing search portals for life sciences. In 2015 LIVIVO was introduced as a new product, which database covers ZB MED’s entire range of subjects: medicine, health, nutrition, environment and agriculture.Initially LIVIVO’s development aimed at realizing a modern search engine combining the functionalities of the predecessor portals. An entirely new web interface was developed, driven by a highly improved usability and a responsive web design. LIVIVO has a great potential in providing search services based on more than 55 million metadata records. Current work of ZB MED focuses on automatic interfaces. Concurrently setting up ZB MED Knowledge Environment creates an indispensable data base for research work at .This article will address the current challenges of a scientific portal using the example of LIVIVO. It will outline the approaches to solutions and development lines.