Coffee Lectures
| Title | Date | Duration | No. Places available/total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zotero reference management - quick and dirty (Coffee Lecture) | 05.06.2024 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Enjoy summer time with swisscovery (Coffee Lecture) | 12.06.2024 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Publication funding for open access papers in special issues (Coffee Lecture) | 19.06.2024 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Smart Maps - How to research and use electronic maps efficiently (Coffee Lecture) | 26.06.2024 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Open Access: First aid in the funding jungle (Coffee Lecture) | 03.07.2024 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
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 pagehttps://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.
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
Enjoy summer time with swisscovery – 12.06.24
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Learn of all stuff swisscovery has to offer
- Ordering documents made easy
Publication funding for open access papers in special issues – 19.06.24
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- What’s it all about open access publications in special issues?
- What should I bear in mind when an SNSF grant is involved?
Smart Maps - How to research and use electronic maps efficiently – 26.06.24
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Learn how to search for maps efficiently
- You know how to download and use electronic maps
Open Access: First aid in the funding jungle – 03.07.24
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Gold, green, hybrid: learn what the three open access colours mean
- ETH, SNSF, EU: Find out when you should use which open access funding option
Past Coffee Lectures
With presentations and video recordings
Open Access: New funding opportunities 2024 – 14.02.2024
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Get to know the ETH library’s new open-access funding opportunities for 2024.
- Learn how to apply for open-access funding at ETH Zurich.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 749 KB)
- external pageVideo recording
How the RDM Guidelines at ETH Zurich support your daily work – 21.02.2024
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Get an overview of the Guidelines for Research Data Management at ETH Zurich.
- Learn how the RDM Guidelines facilitate structured RDM and endorse discipline-specific approaches.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- external pageVideo recording
Research data during the peer review process: Possibilities in the Research Collection – 28.02.2024
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- We show the differences between non-anonymised, single-blind and double-blind peer review.
- Understand the options for making your research data available for peer review through the Research Collection
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 646 KB)
- external pageVideo recording
Reading NZZ, NY Times and other newspapers without paywall – full access for members of ETH Zurich – 06.03.2024
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- License for «Neue Züricher Zeitung» und «New York Times».
- Access to news from all over the world with the law and press database Nexis Uni.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 826 KB)
- external pageVideo recording
ResearchRabbit: Explore literature via citation networks – 13.03.2024
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Searching for literature via networks, how does it work?
- Demo using the example of ResearchRabbit.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- external pageVideo recording
Research data management strategy – a vital pillar for your research group – 01 November 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Learn about benefits of having a research data management (RDM) strategy at hand.
- Introduction to key aspects of the RDM strategy to prepare the implementation in your research group.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- external pageVideo recording
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.
- external pageVideo recording
How to proceed for funding of publication fees with SNSF grants – 15 November 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Get to know which articles are funded by the ETH Library and which are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
- Become familiar with the procedure for submitting SNF-eligible publications.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 854 KB)
- external pageVideo recording
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
- We show you how to ensure that all your SNSF-funded publications are freely accessible.
- Learn about the Rights Retention Strategy and avoid additional costs for open access publications.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 858 KB)
- external pageVideo recording
"Use the crowd" – Why georeferencing of historical maps is valuable for science – 29 November 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- We show you the benefits of georeferencing historical maps via crowdsourcing for science.
- You know how to choose the right portal for researching georeferenced maps.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 3.9 MB)
- external pageVideo recording
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
- external pageVideo recording
Using Mendeley for collaboration – 14 June 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes
- Create groups to collaborate with other researchers
- Learn how to share your references with colleagues
- external pageVideo recording
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
- Learn about using standards at ETH Zurich
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation – Coffee Lecture (PDF, 410 KB)
New options for open-access publications in 2023 – 08 February 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes:
- Discover the new options for open-access financial support at the ETH Library in 2023
- Find out how to secure open-access funding
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation – Coffee Lecture (PDF, 599 KB)
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:
- Get to know the swisscovery user interface
- Find out how to order documents and avoid fees
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation – Coffee Lecture (PDF, 672 KB)
Do you manage research data at ETH Zurich? Discover the Data Stewardship Network – 22 February 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes:
- Find out all about the Data Stewardship Network at ETH Zurich
- Discover how you can get involved
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation – Coffee Lecture (PDF, 2.8 MB)
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
- external pageVideo recording
Compressed knowledge – an insight into the getAbstract database – 08 March 2023
New knowledge in 15 minutes:
- Find out how to explore the getAbstract content
- Discover what sections make up a getAbstract summary
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation – Coffee Lecture (PDF, 3.4 MB)
Cloud services at ETH Zurich: dos and don’ts – 26 October 2022
- You will get an overview of the cloud services available at ETH Zurich
- You will know what to take into account when using cloud services at ETH Zurich
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1 MB)
Be aware: predatory publishers – 02 November 2022
- You are aware of the problems of predatory publishing.
- You know criteria to recognize predatory publishers and magazines.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.1 MB)
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?
- external pageVideo recording
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.
- external pageVideo recording
How to find an ETH-external FAIR data repository – 23 November 2022
- What are the criteria making a data repository FAIR?
- How can you make use of www.re3data.org to find suitable discipline-specific repositories?
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.4 MB)
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.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (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
- the aim of the national negotiations,
- what options you have to get access to 2022 content from Oxford University Press.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 889 KB)
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
- name the different scopes of platforms like Kartenportal.CH and GeoVITe,
- choose the right platform for your “spatial topic” in research and teaching.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 3.5 MB)
Research data sharing – duties and benefits – 29 June 2022
- You know the requirements and rules for good practice in publishing your research data.
- You know the potential benefits that come with publishing your research data.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.8 MB)
Creative Commons – get the right license in just a few clicks – 06 July 2022
- You know how Creative Commons licenses work and what they mean.
- You know how to determine for yourself under which legal conditions your works (photographs, texts, videos, etc.) may be published and reused on the Internet.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.8 MB)
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.
- external pageVideo recording
Metadata standards for documenting your research – 9 February
- You understand the importance of metadata for ensuring reproducibility in research.
- You know where to find metadata standards suitable for your scientific discipline.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.3 MB)
New open-access funding options at the ETH Library – 16 February
- Get to know the ETH library’s new open-access funding opportunities for 2022.
- Learn how to apply for open-access funding.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 912 KB)
Qualified evaluation of information from the internet – 23 February
- Based on two examples, you will find out which criteria you should pay attention to in order to be able to evaluate a website quickly.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.7 MB)
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.
- external pageVideo recording
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.
- external pageVideo recording
Fostering scientific integrity at ETH Zurich: current developments and challenges – 10 November
- Learn from current examples how ETH Zurich promotes a culture of scientific integrity and good scientific practice.
- Know who to contact if you have questions about scientific integrity and good scientific practice.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Interactive scientific computing with computational notebooks – 17 November
- Learn what computational notebooks are and why they have become extremely popular in science.
- Learn about the most popular computational notebook tools, their advantages as well as some pitfalls to be aware of when working with notebooks.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 3.2 MB)
How to draft a Data Management Plan (DMP): purpose, advantages and support – 24 November
- You know what a Data Management Plan (DMP) is and gain a general understanding of its purpose and advantages.
- You know where to find material and support at ETH Zurich to draft and complete your own DMP.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 3.2 MB)
Reusing data from the Research Collection for research, publication analysis and more – 1 December
- You understand under which conditions metadata and research data can be reused.
- You discover different methods to retrieve bibliographic data and usage data from the Research Collection.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Statista: statistics research made easy! – 2 June
- Find the right statistics for your topic area.
- Export statistical data for inclusion in your work.
- external pageVideo recording
Good to know: This Coffee Lecture will be held in German.
What are Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and why should I use them? – 9 June
- You get to know various PIDs.
- You learn why it is important to use PIDs in your publications.
- external pageVideo recording
Searching and citing images and icons in presentations – 16 June
- Where and how can you search icons and images for presentations?
- You know how to re-use images and cite them correctly in presentations.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 2.7 MB)
Research data documentation: best practices in file naming and folder structure organisation – 23 June
- You learn about best practices and conventions in file naming.
- You become familiar with different file categories, which are usually generated during a research project, and with appropriate file folder structures.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 629 KB)
What do I have to consider when entering research data into the Research Collection (file formats, preparation of data) – 30 June
- You will learn how to prepare your files for the upload in the Research Collection.
- You will learn about recommended file formats for publishing your research data.
- external pageVideo recording
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 789 KB)
Open access: new funding opportunities 2021 – 3 February
- Get to know the ETH library’s new open-access funding opportunities for 2021.
- Learn how to apply for open-access funding.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 820 KB)
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.
- DownloadPresentation (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.
- DownloadPresentation
Bibliometrics and altmetrics – 24 February
- Learn how to assess the “importance” of research with citation impact factors and learn about modern alternatives.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 345 KB)
Sustainable scientific scrapbooking with Typora – 3 March
- Understand the benefits of markdown journaling.
- DownloadHandout (PDF, 196 KB)
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.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 639 KB)
Get a literature overview to your research question with Open Knowledge Maps – 11 November
- Learn how to get a 2-D graph of relevant publications with external pageOpen Knowledge Maps.
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.
- DownloadPresentation (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.
- DownloadPresentation (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
- external pageVideo recording
What the hell is a postprint? Green open-access publishing in a nutshell – 9 September
- You understand the meaning of the different denominations like pre- and postprint, accepted author manuscript and more.
- You get to know the differences of these versions with regards to open-access publishing.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- external pageVideo recording
Data management plan (DMP) for the SNSF: what does it mean for me? – 16 September
- You have a general idea of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) policy on open research data (ORD).
- You understand the SNSF requirements and what they mean for your own data management plan.
- DownloadPresentation (PDF, 729 KB)
- external pageVideo recording
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.
- DownloadPresentation (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
- external pageVideo recording
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.