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After intensive negotiations with the publisher Wiley, the negotiating delegation of swissuniversities has concluded a new consortium agreement. 

The ETH Library's GenAI Challenge has demonstrated the diverse ways in which generative AI is used at ETH Zurich and its potential.

Has the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) accepted your project for funding? Then you need a Data Management Plan (DMP) now so the funds can be released.

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.

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.

In the tutorial on 31 March 2025 we will present the optimal use of Swissdox@LiRi.

The ETH Library launches a new support service. Would you like to learn more about the systematic review process? Do you need support in developing or reviewing your search strategy?

In NAHIMA, the database for scientific collections at ETH Zurich, 3D models can now be displayed. There are also new developments in 3D viewers for cultural history collections.

With Scopus AI and Scite, two new AI-powered research tools are now available in the ETH Zurich network.

A recent ETH Library survey from 2023 reveals key challenges in research data management (RDM), highlighting the need for support in selecting metadata standards and FAIR repositories, and emphasising the role of data stewards. 

Agreements made by the ETH Library open up further possibilities for publishing open access. 

“The Magic Mountain” is in more ways than one a testimony to the beginnings of X-ray diagnostics. What this means and how today’s research at ETH Zurich is advancing diagnostic technologies is the subject of a film by the Thomas Mann Archive.   

In the next 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library, Lars Schöbitz will present the role of ‘data stewards’ and their important function in research data management.

Join us on 13 November 2024 for the fifth lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS), hosted by ETH Library and University of Fribourg. Prof. Bart Thijs will discuss new approaches to assessing the quality of research.

Join our webinar on 01 October 2024 from 16.00 to 17.15 for tips and tools for a productive doctorate.

Unlimited reading and publishing; AI use regulated 

Fundraising with SCOSS creates resources for Software Heritage and the Research Data Alliance  

Members of ETH Zurich can publish open access in the hybrid journals of World Scientific Publishing unlimitedly.

Has the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) accepted your project for funding? Then you now need a Data Management Plan (DMP) so that the funds can be released. ETH Library supports you.

Global challenges require global solutions: Jan Dirk Wegner presents new research approaches based on deep learning at the next 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library.

Rebecca Hochreutener and Dr. Marian Hertrich (BedrettoLab for Geosciences and Geoenergies, D-ERDW) in the fourth interview in the series on models of data stewardship at ETH Zurich.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Ludo Waltman on 24 April 2024, who will postulate a democratisation of the use of scientometrics in the fourth lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS).

Publishing in Taylor & Francis journals is possible again.

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.

In collaboration between the ETH Library and  EPFL, the third lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) will take place in Lausanne on 7 February 2024. Dr Elizabeth Gadd speaks about the challenges of research assessment in the context of open science.

Dr Marco Humbel from the University College London shows the infrastructural challenges faced by memory institutions with their massive digitised collections.

You could submit your application for project funding to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) until 01 October 2023. Remember that you need a data management plan (DMP) for approved projects.

This conversation between PD Dr Jochen Klumpp (IT Services Group (ISG), D-HEST) and Dr Julian Dederke (ETH Library) is the third instalment in a series of interviews explaining the work of data stewards within the Data Stewardship Network and showcasing various data stewardship models at ETH Zurich.

How can Anne Abels preserve her research data for researchers even after her doctorate at ETH Zurich? Thanks to Mohamed El-Saad from the ETH Library, she found a good way.

At the 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library, Dr Michael Ochsner will talk about the results from a decade of research on research quality in the social sciences and humanities and what the sciences can learn from it.

Avoid the quagmire of plagiarism by organising your references well.

Yurena Seguí Femenias wants to stay up to date with scientific developments even after her doctorate at ETH Zurich. Together with David Johann from the ETH Library, she has found a solution.

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.

The event will take place on 11 October 2023 in collaboration with the CHESS. Prof. Emanuel Kulczycki will explore how ontological understanding of science influences what we count and how we interpret it.

Are open data sources reliable enough to perform bibliometric analyses? TOBI aims to answer this question by assessing the quality of open datasets. Among its first deliverables, an app is now available.

The following interview between Dr Giuliana Turi (ETH Sustainability, Office of the President) and Dr Julian Dederke (ETH Library) is the second in a series of interviews that take a closer look at the work of active data stewards in the Data Stewardship Network.

Dr Stefanie Haustein began the event series for the Swiss Year of Scientometrics on 7 June 2023 with her stimulating lecture on the opportunities and challenges of scientometrics. The content is available online.

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.

The first lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) will take place on 7 June 2023. Dr Stefanie Haustein will be giving an overview of the landscape of scientometrics and its recent developments.

The discussion between Professor Elizabeth Tilley, Lars Schöbitz (both D-MAVT, Global Health Engineering) and Dr Julian Dederke (ETH Library) is the first in a series highlighting the work of a pilot group of data stewards who are active in the Data Stewardship Network.

Is it really possible to measure research performance and the influence of scientific work objectively? The “Swiss Year of Scientometrics” (SYoS) shines a light on the limits and possibilities for scientometrics.

Thomas Mann Archives Online allow access to further original documents in digital form.

Full access to Oxford University Press journals.

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

Get an insight into the work of the ETH AI Center at the 17:15 Colloquium of the ETH Library on Thursday, 29 September 2022. Adrian Notz, curator, will talk about questions and topics that are being researched at the Center.

The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (01 October 2022).

Analysing text reuse is a task that is of particular relevance to architectural history. The platform Graph automates this process by applying large-scale textual processing for detecting similar text passages to a large corpus of digitised books.

Researchers at ETH Zurich are required to employ good practice in managing research data. Learn how the ETH Library supports you in doing so.

From 13 to 15 December 2022, the international event will be held by the ETH Library under the title "Breaking new ground: scholarly communication and libraries".

The new software makes it easier for Swiss libraries and research institutions to register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). This allows them to make research results more accessible and increase their citation frequency.

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

An international academic conference will take place at Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse (France) from 19 to 21 May.

The ETH Library recommends freely available background information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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.

With the NAHIMA database, the ETH Library provides a virtual infrastructure that makes natural science collections accessible to researchers in an efficient and clear way.

You research, write and publish, but who is taking note of your results? Who reads your scientific publications? How aware are people inside and outside academia of your research?

Are you familiar with the extraordinary treasures in the ETH Library? The videos in our #TreasureTroves campaign feature fascinating instruments, graphics and designs from our different collections and archives.

The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (1 April 2022).

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

On E-Pics, the ETH Zurich platform for image catalogues, new additions from the ETH Library Thomas Mann Archives have been recorded and digitised. They are now available for researchers and interested parties.

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).

Thomas Mann Archives Online allow access to further original documents.

The latest and, for now, last Explora story is online. We’re in Zurich, in the Wehrenbach ravine, looking for a species of caddisfly thought to be extinct.

The ETH Library provides concise instructions for preparing a data management plan which take into account the specific conditions that exist at ETH Zurich.

The fifth Thomas Mann Lecture was broadcast live from Zurich and Harvard and, for the first time, made available for listeners in German and English.

The new Explora story is online: this year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize in Physics. But how much ETH was there really in Einstein? And how much Einstein is there in ETH?

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

As part of the Thomas Mann Lectures, which are currently being held virtually, Professor Judith Ryan discusses the author’s literary examination of contemporary theories on crowd psychology.

At the 17:15 Colloquium on 28 October 2021, you will get an insight into the Lab's work as well as its challenges, learning experiences and successes. Be there and join the discussion!

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

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

150 years of agricultural sciences at ETH Zurich! A new mini-series on Explora is being created from nostalgic images and diverse materials, but also from the future perspectives of researchers.

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.

Members of ETH Zurich can now find out everything about the plant Arabidopsis thaliana on The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) database.

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.

Five institutions from four countries have joined forces to establish the Thomas Mann International (TMI) network, driving exchange and promoting research, discourse and education.

The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (1 October 2021).

With Dimensions Analytics, the ETH Library provides members of ETH Zurich with an interdisciplinary database that allows for a comprehensive view of scientific publications.

Research and knowledge brought to life: ETH Zurich presents selected holdings from its collections and archives at the new external location Octavo.

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 ETH Library is launching a new, comprehensive bibliometric service. The quantitative analysis of publications and their reception (such as citations) can assist researchers and departments in their work.

The new Explora story is online. It is dedicated to the bridges of Switzerland, the engineers who designed them and lots more. Take a closer look!

There is a new highlight in the Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Aids: the custom-made Gömböc G 1854. The gift is a tangible piece of 20 years of scientific history.

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 tenth anniversary of e-rara was marked with presentations, visualisations and discussions – online, in public and live. Find out what researchers have been saying about retrospective digitisation and learn more about the platform online.

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

The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (1 April 2021).

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

Feedly is a tool that enables comprehensive academic knowledge management. A total of 50 available test licenses for Feedly Enterprise are now available for members of ETH Zurich.

The long wait is over. The Image Archive of the ETH Library has now made its oldest films available online for research buffs. Exciting historical expeditions, experiments and much more are waiting to be explored.

A newly launched platform that provides access to the rescanned manuscripts of the minutes allows users to research the history of ETH Zurich using mobile devices.

Analysing text reuse is a task that is of particular relevance to architectural history. The new platform Graph automates this process by applying large-scale textual processing for detecting similar text passages to a large corpus of digitised architecture books.

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.

The CYBATHLON 2020 offers a special kind of competition experience. In its three-part video campaign, the ETH Library shows a person affected who defies fate with courage and high-tech.

The ETH Library is supporting the dissemination of knowledge relevant within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers at ETH Zurich can continue to apply for funding for their publications.

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

Explora launched the new miniseries format in July. Check out the second episode now.

“The Materiality of Knowledge”: Inventoried and available to all those interested, ETH Library is re-opening a treasure trove of collector’s items featuring historical and contemporary objects from teaching and research.

Put your knowledge to the test and discover the fascinating treasures of two libraries