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The 1st Diamond Open Access Conference in Switzerland, organised as part of the PLATO project and with the participation of the ETH Library, will take place in March.

Publishing in Taylor & Francis journals is possible again.

Get yourself and your research project in shape with our research data management workshop programme. You can now register for the Spring Semester 2024 workshops.  

From 2024, the ETH Library will cover the costs of publications in more journals, including Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

The national negotiations between swissuniversities and Elsevier and also with Taylor & Francis did not lead to an agreement by mid-December 2023. The ETH Library, together with the other universities affected, is preparing for a situation without a contract from January 2024.

Mandy Boontanrart's research is meant to reach those who need it most. With the help of Barbara Hirschmann from the ETH Library, she is one step further.

The ETH Library is the first Swiss university library to be awarded the CoreTrustSeal. As ETH Zurich’s institutional repository, the Research Collection now has a globally recognised certification.

When the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funds a project, it covers the fees for any resulting gold open-access publications. Researchers from ETH Zurich use the SNSF’s ChronosHub platform to settle these fees.

Join our webinar on 3 October 2023 from 4.00 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. for tips and tools to help you work productively during your doctorate.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

Between 17.15 and 18.45 on 16 May 2023, doctoral students will be given a compact overview of the ETH Library services relevant for their doctoral thesis.

New open access agreements with the American Chemical Society (ACS), Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Microbiology Society, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press (OUP) and Portland Press.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

Early career scientists receive an extensive overview on Research Data Management, its principles, its practical implications and on useful tools. Register now!

Full access to Oxford University Press journals.

Take part in our online course on 24 November 2022 and receive important basics about open-access publishing.

Independent publishing: SciPost gives ETH Zurich researchers an additional way of publishing their research results as open-​access articles without relying on commercial providers.

In the event series of the ETH Library in October and November 2022, you can get input on tools and topics that support your academic work in a short and crisp form.

Between 17.15 and 18.45 on 08 November 2022, doctoral students will be given a compact overview of the ETH Library services relevant for their doctoral thesis.

You are now able to publish large amounts of research data in the Research Collection. Find out more about this new offer.

Are you familiar with our courses and workshops? They cover a wide range of interesting and exciting topics that will help you with your studies or work. You can attend online or in person, and plenty of different dates and times are available.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

Cite Them Right helps you with referencing in your academic work. Thanks to this online referencing tool, you can expand your knowledge on how to cite correctly and about plagiarism.

Read and publish open access in humanities subjects and thereby contribute to Open Science.

Take part in our online course on 24 May 2022 and receive important basics about open-access publishing.

Anyone who uses openBIS can easily publish research data in the Research Collection. This means valuable data can be made available to other researchers sooner.

National negotiations with Oxford University Press failed to produce a read & publish agreement. The ETH Library facilitates access to current content.

Between 16.00 and 18.00 on 11 May 2022, doctoral students will be given a compact overview of the ETH Library services relevant for their doctoral thesis.

The ETH Zurich publication platform continuously proves its importance to researchers in all fields. Current statistics show the number of downloads and open access entries rose again last year.

Early career scientists receive an extensive overview on Research Data Management, its principles, its practical implications and on useful tools. Register now!

Receive information relating to the new open-access agreements with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), Company of Biologists, IEEE and Institute of Physics (IOP).

Open access funding: the deadline for funding applications for articles in subscription journals is 14 December 2021.

What are the topics in focus? What is being downloaded and cited via the Research Collection? Current statistics show that in Q3 2021, reading choices were dominated by COVID-19 and climate change.

Take part in our webinar on 19 October 2021 and receive important basics about open-access publishing.

Are you familiar with our courses and workshops? They cover a wide range of interesting and exciting topics that will help you with your studies or work. You can attend online or in person, and plenty of different dates and times are available.

Employees of ETH Zurich can now save their preferred author name, including variants, in their ETH profile. This way, authors are included in the publication search in full.

The Research Collection provides researchers with green open access to scientific publications and the option to publish at no charge.

An extended regulation regarding the absorption of open-access fees on the part of the ETH Library has been in force since February 2021. This will be subject to a limit from the closing of the accounts in December 2021 onwards.

The new Wiley Read and Publish agreement allows researchers at ETH Zurich to enjoy unlimited access to scientific insights worldwide and to publish their own results free of charge.

The Research Collection statistics sets two records: Never before have so many downloads been made in a month, and never before has the open-access proportion been so high in a single year!

Take part in our webinar on 25 March 2021 and receive important basics about open-access publishing.

As of now, the ETH library will cover open-access fees for all corresponding author articles by members of ETH Zurich.

2020 saw the highest ever number of journal articles downloaded! You can also find out which topic occupied users the most.

Get information on the new Read and Publish agreements with Cambridge University Press, Karger, Sage, Taylor & Francis and Trans Tech Publications.

swissuniversities continues negotiations with Wiley in 2021; access to all Wiley journals and the Cochrane Library is ensured in the meantime.

With its Book a Librarian service, the ETH Library supports researchers in their academic work across all specialist fields – individually, free of charge and personally.

School closures during the pandemic have opened up a fascinating field of research in the area of online education. Open access allows researchers to share their findings in a new repository. Exchange ideas with other researchers at the online event on 1 December.

Input on tools and topics to assist your academic work

An increasing number of scientists at ETH Zurich are using open access to publish their research findings – meaning knowledge can be shared without restriction and used free of charge.

The Research Collection statistics reveal current trends: researchers continue to intensively study topics relating to COVID-19, open access is being used more frequently, and the number of downloads is also rising.

Research data published in the Research Collection can now also be found in the Data Citation Index.

The concluded Read-and-Publish agreements cover both the costs of access and publishing in the relevant scientific journals. The costs are covered by the ETH Library.

Input on tools and topics to assist your academic work.

We have made some changes to the current Research Collection statistics. The infographic has a new, slimmer design and the statistics themselves will be published quarterly from now on. In the future, we will also be more flexible in selecting the types of publication presented.

Numerous articles by ETH authors freely available on the ETH publication platform, published in full text.

The new Read and Publish agreement between ETH Library and Springer Nature not only makes scientific research accessible worldwide but also effectively advances it. A service for members of ETH Zurich.

The open-access share for the year 2020 rose by 3% in May: the share was 38%. This is the highest open-access percentage ever recorded in our statistics. We hope, of course, that with your help we will be able to increase this proportion even further.

All content from ScienceDirect is now accessible to ETH members.

Are you short on time, but still keen to learn about tools that could help you in your research? Do you have questions about a particular ETH Library service?

The most downloaded article in April deals with the currently dominant topic: the COVID-19 pandemic.

ETH Library pays Open Access publication fees at Elsevier for members of ETH Zurich.

In late January 2020, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), swissuniversities, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the two Federal Institutes of Technology signed an agreement to establish a national Open Research Data (ORD) strategy.

For the first time, the dissertation: "A laser based mercury co-magnetometer for the neutron electric dipole moment search" from 2013 appears at the top of the ranking.

ETH Library supports the dissemination of knowledge related to the COVID-19 pandemic. ETH researchers can apply for funding in the short term.

The ETH Library gives members of the ETH Zurich an overview of freely accessible e-resources concerning COVID-19.

Take part in our webinar on 24 March and learn about all the important key points regarding open access publishing

The topic of coronavirus is not yet reflected in the current download figures of the Research Collection. However, immunology and virology are not main topics at ETH Zurich and there are only a few publications.

We published the first infographic on the use of the Research Collection in April 2019. This year’s first infographic presents the annual review for 2019.

Visit one of our four consecutive workshops, each building upon the knowledge of the previous, which focus on the various elements of research data management along the research data life cycle. Register either for individual workshops or for the entire series. 

In November, the number of journal article downloads fell to 52,273. This is still the third highest figure in 2019, after the unusually high figures in October.

Are you interested in the open access publication of your research data? In our video tutorial, we give you all the relevant information about the correct publication in the Research Collection.

In October 2019, the number of journal article downloads reached a new record level. More than 70,000 downloads were made in a single month.

The panel discusses considerations on the financing of open access publications.

The highest Altmetric Score in September was achieved by an article dealing with the influence of an astronomical event on the paleoclimate. According to the article, meteorite dust could have triggered an ice age on Earth about 460 million years ago. The full text of this article is available in the Research Collection.

Slides from the event available online

Panel discussion on 24 October 2019 at ETH Zurich

Nehmen Sie am 03.10.2019 am Online-Kurs teil.

Our workshop series demonstrates how you can retain control in the Open Science environment.

August was a month of comebacks for the most popular works: the most downloaded article as well as the dataset and the doctoral thesis had already been on this list. This is not surprising in the case of the doctoral thesis, since it is Albert Einstein's work, a true classic of scientific literature.

? In a new video tutorial, you can learn how to upload your article to the Research Collection.

Podiumsdiskussion am 24.10.2019

Rafael Ball, Direktor der ETH-Bibliothek, diskutiert mit zum Thema «Open Access»

Die Plattform e-rara.ch richtet sich noch mehr auf die Bedürfnisse von Forschung und Lehre aus

Ab sofort können Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der ETH Zürich kostenlos in Zeitschriften der Royal Society of Chemistry Open Access publizieren.