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Are you short on time, but still keen to learn about tools that could help you in your research?

Our Coffee Lectures can provide the answers you need to questions concerning information research, open-access publishing and research data management. They are also a good opportunity to get to know points of contact and specialist staff at ETH Library.

How do the short courses work?

Each session lasts fifteen minutes. You will receive concise, condensed information on a particular topic and have time to ask questions at the end. Fifteen minutes also happens to be just the right amount of time to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee while getting the information you need.

The Coffee Lectures take place in series of five events on Wednesday afternoons at 15.15. Registration is not required.

These are online sessions held via Zoom.
Zoom-link: external page https://ethz.zoom.us/j/61539025340

Participants

The Coffee Lectures are primarily aimed at scientific staff of ETH Zurich, but also at students and interested parties from other universities. The event language is usually English.

Accessibility

Access and participation in our courses will be barrier-free. Please contact us in advance at +41 44 632 21 35 or at so that we can optimally meet your needs.

Next Coffee Lectures

Impact Factors in Research - What can they (not) do for you? – 6 November 2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

BrowZine - a virtual bookshelf for your favourite electronic journals – 13 November 2024 

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • Web service and mobile application to browse, read and track licensed e-journals in one place
  • Save articles for offline reading, share them via e-mail or social media and export to various reference management programs
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Enhance your Reading Lists with Leganto – 20 November 2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • Create a reading list in your Moodle course
  • Sort and structure the titles according to your needs
  • Publish and share your list with your students
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Protecting Yourself from Fraudulent Publishers – 27 November 2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • You are aware of the problems of predatory publishing.
  • You know criteria to recognize predatory publishers and journals.
     

Past Coffee Lectures

With presentations and video recordings

Zotero reference management - quick and dirty – 05.06.24

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • Learn how to set up Zotero Institution
  • How to import references directly from the browser
  • Create the reference list for your paper
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Enjoy summer time with swisscovery – 12.06.24

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Publication funding for open access papers in special issues – 19.06.24

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Smart Maps - How to research and use electronic maps efficiently – 26.06.24

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Open Access: First aid in the funding jungle – 03.07.24

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Open Access: New funding opportunities 2024 – 14.02.2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

How the RDM Guidelines at ETH Zurich support your daily work – 21.02.2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Research data during the peer review process: Possibilities in the Research Collection – 28.02.2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Reading NZZ, NY Times and other newspapers without paywall – full access for members of ETH Zurich – 06.03.2024

New knowledge in 15 minutes

ResearchRabbit: Explore literature via citation networks – 13.03.2024
 
New knowledge in 15 minutes

Research data management strategy – a vital pillar for your research group – 01 November 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

How plagiarism detection software works – 08 November 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • We demonstrate how to use the plagiarism detection software Similarity by Turnitin.
  • Please note that Similarity is not available to students at ETH Zurich.
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How to proceed for funding of publication fees with SNSF grants – 15 November 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Free of charge and without embargo: How to meet the SNSF's new open access requirements using the Rights Retention Strategy – 22 November 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

"Use the crowd" – Why georeferencing of historical maps is valuable for science – 29 November 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Good news: comparing the Nexis Uni and Factiva press databases (German) – 07 June 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • Find out how to create a press review of a particular topic
  • Learn about the differences between the two resources
  • Get tips on searching the full-text press databases and learn about the potential pitfalls
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Using Mendeley for collaboration – 14 June 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

Finding open publications beyond search engines – 21 June 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

  • get to know Unpaywall’s browser extension
  • become familiar with different manuscript versions (preprint, post-print)

NormI: your portal for standards (DIN, ISO, and others) – 28 June 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes

New options for open-access publications in 2023 – 08 February 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes:

 

Still trying to get to grips with the new ordering system? A quick refresher on ordering documents – 15 February 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes:

 

Do you manage research data at ETH Zurich? Discover the Data Stewardship Network – 22 February 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes:

 

Research in Dimensions – 01 March 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes:

  • Find out how to search for scientific publications and research data
  • Discover the various options in terms of analysis
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Compressed knowledge – an insight into the getAbstract database – 08 March 2023

New knowledge in 15 minutes:

Cloud services at ETH Zurich: dos and don’ts – 26 October 2022

Be aware: predatory publishers  – 02 November 2022

E-Periodica Next Level Access (NLA): discover networks in Swiss journals – 09 November 2022

  • How to process 40 million references – What is E-Periodica NLA?
  • Discover networks in Swiss journals – What can you do with E-Periodica NLA?

Get to know Cite Them Right – 16 November 2022

  • You know how to access Cite Them Right and find general information.
  • You know how to navigate Cite Them Right to find specific information.
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How to find an ETH-external FAIR data repository – 23 November 2022

Quarto: new tool for authoring scientific publications, slides, websites and interactive articles – 30 November 2022

  • With Quarto, you can weave together narrative text and executable code to produce elegantly formatted output as documents (PDF/TeX), web pages, blog posts, books, slides and more.
  • You will get a quick tour of what is possible and learn how to typeset your first document.
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  • Download Presentation (PDF, 1 MB)

No Deal with Oxford University Press – what is being negotiated and how do I get my information anyway? – 15 June 2022

At the end of the coffee lecture, you know

Lost in space? Finding maps and geodata for research and teaching – 22 June 2022

At the end of the coffee lecture, you are able to

Research data sharing – duties and benefits – 29 June 2022

Creative Commons – get the right license in just a few clicks – 06 July 2022

Get to know the new Web of Science interface – 2 February

  • Get to know the differences between the new and classic Web of Science user interfaces.
  • Learn about recently introduced features in Web of Science and what they can be used for.
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Metadata standards for documenting your research – 9 February

New open-access funding options at the ETH Library – 16 February

Qualified evaluation of information from the internet – 23 February

How to use the ETH Library in 8 steps for new staff and doctoral students, or what you need to prepare for a zombie apocalypse – 2 March

  • You know all library services that are “free of charge” for ETH staff.
  • You find your way to our licensed online resources.
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How to find papers easily using ETH Library @ swisscovery – 3 November

  • Get to know the Central Discovery Index and learn the difference between the two search profiles in ETH Library @ swisscovery.
  • Learn easy strategies to find and download scientific papers directly in ETH Library @ swisscovery.
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Fostering scientific integrity at ETH Zurich: current developments and challenges – 10 November

Interactive scientific computing with computational notebooks – 17 November

How to draft a Data Management Plan (DMP): purpose, advantages and support – 24 November


Reusing data from the Research Collection for research, publication analysis and more – 1 December

Statista: statistics research made easy! – 2 June

Good to know: This Coffee Lecture will be held in German.


What are Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and why should I use them? – 9 June


Searching and citing images and icons in presentations – 16 June


Research data documentation: best practices in file naming and folder structure organisation – 23 June


What do I have to consider when entering research data into the Research Collection (file formats, preparation of data) – 30 June

Open access: new funding opportunities 2021 – 3 February

Horizon Europe open-access requirements – 10 February

  • Get to know the open-access requirements for scientific publications under Horizon Europe.
  • Get to know the requirements for research data management under Horizon Europe.
  • Download Presentation (PDF, 416 KB)

Discover swisscovery: a quick guide to order documents – 17 February

  • You are familiar with the new swisscovery interface and know how to navigate.
  • You know how to order documents and how to avoid fees.
  • Download Presentation

Bibliometrics and altmetrics – 24 February

Sustainable scientific scrapbooking with Typora – 3 March

The research data life cycle: How to handle data during all steps of your project – 4 November

  • You understand which steps the data life cycle (DLC) contains and which tasks they entail for your project.
  • You know which services are available at ETH and where to turn for support during key steps of the DLC.
  • Download Presentation (PDF, 639 KB)

Get a literature overview to your research question with Open Knowledge Maps – 11 November

Collaborative writing: all for one and one for all? – 18 November

  • You know the most important strategies enabling cooperation in a collaborative writing process.
  • You understand the impact of the right writing tool on getting feedback and improving text quality.
  • Download Presentation (PDF, 1 MB)

Open access: When does ETH cover your publication fees? – 25 November

  • Get to know for which publishers and journals ETH Library pays the open-access fees.
  • Prerequisites for funding, workflows and alternative funding sources.
  • Download Presentation (PDF, 889 KB)

Building stories – architecture meets graphic novels – 2 December

  • You know what kind of graphic novel collection is available at ETH Zurich.
  • You can link graphic novels to architecture and know what future architects can learn from them.

 

Nexis Uni: Nützliche Presseartikel aus der ganzen Welt einfach finden – 2 September

  • You can use the advanced search to find the press articles you are looking for quickly and precisely.
  • You can save your search, set bookmarks and stay up to date with alerts using personalised settings
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What the hell is a postprint? Green open-access publishing in a nutshell – 9 September


Data management plan (DMP) for the SNSF: what does it mean for me? – 16 September

Comparing the bibliographic management systems Mendeley and EndNote – 23 September

  • What is a Bibliographic Management System (BMS)? Why a BMS? Knowing the advantages and disadvantages of Mendeley and EndNote related to basic features of bibliographic management systems.
  • Knowing the possibilities of Mendeley and EndNote in context of online sharing references and group collaboration.
  • Download Presentation (PDF, 3 MB)


Fantastic library services and where to find them – Quick guide for new staff and doctoral students – 30 September

  • You know all library services that are “free of charge” for ETH staff.
  • You find your way to our licensed online resources
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How to use the new PubMed – 27 May 2020

  • You know what Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) is and how it works.
  • You can decide if you can rely on ATM or if it is necessary to create your own search string.

Unpaywall & Co. – read research papers for free – 3 June 2020

  • You know how to use browser extensions for accessing research papers, especially Unpaywall.

eresearchcenter - your portal for standards (DIN, ISO and others) - 10 June 2020

  • You know how to access standards at ETH Zurich.

Be aware: predatory publishers – 17 June 2020

  • You are aware of the problems of predatory publishing.
  • You know criteria to recognize predatory publishers and magazines.

Creative Commons: How to license your publications and research data for reuse – 24 June 2020

  • You know how to use Creative Commons licenses to specify how your publications and data can be reused.
  • You know the advantages and disadvantages of the different license types.

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