News and courses
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In tandem - a smart approach to Data Stewardship
How can data stewardship tasks be successfully shared? Dr. Sabina Keller and Dr. Lukas Hörtnagl (Grassland Sciences research group at D-USYS) provide some insights.
How to deal with the growing pressure to publish? – Trends and perspectives
At the ETH Library's ‘Learn & Talk’ on 17 June, we will exchange ideas with experts and each other about the increasing pressure to publish, its impact on science, and supporting services through the ETH Library.
Events
Our doors are open to everyone. Come see our exhibits, take one of our public tours, or plan a private tour of our archives or collections for groups of five or more. Researchers and science lovers are invited to attend our conferences and podium discussions.
Courses and workshops
We hold courses and workshops that are open to the public and cover topics such as information research, reference management and scientific writing as well as research data management and open access.
| Title | Date | Duration | No. Places available/total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop: Build your Reading List – Hands-on with Leganto. | 14.05.2025 | 2h 45min | 20 / 20 |
| Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 14.05.2025 | 75 min | 4 / 4 |
| Screen, scan, search: reading scientific texts | 20.05.2025 | 45 min | 16 / 40 |
| Discover smart note taking | 21.05.2025 | 105 min | 16 / 30 |
| Revising scientific texts | 21.05.2025 | 45 min | 23 / 40 |
| Your scientific text – convincing and relevant | 22.05.2025 | 45 min | 35 / 40 |
| Citing correctly – avoiding plagiarism: the safe way to the scientific text | 22.05.2025 | 105 min | 9 / 20 |
| Mastering scientific writing with AI-based tools | 23.05.2025 | 3h 45min | 1 / 25 |
| Scientific illustrations – visualising research data (German) | 27.05.2025 | 60 min | 0 / 16 |
| Read newspapers without access restrictions: The press databases Nexis Uni and Factiva (Coffee Lecture) | 28.05.2025 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
Blogs and social media
The ETH Library regularly updates different blogs with content from our collections, archives and holdings: from highlights from the archive to the latest results of crowdsourcing initiatives all the way to multimedia stories posted on the storytelling platform Explora.
On social media, we share our knowledge on a variety of different platforms – from Facebook to Instagram to YouTube – in order to promote dialogue both within and outside of ETH Zurich.