ETH Library promotes Open Science: support for further important initiatives

Open science start-ups need money. But raising funds is particularly difficult for non-profit initiatives. The ETH Library has therefore been supporting promising projects for years in order to contribute to open research practices.

From 2024, ETH Library will be supporting the external page Research Data Alliance - a global member organisation that develops solutions in the field of open science and research data management - and the external page Software Heritage platform, which offers solutions for archiving research software.

Fundraising is coordinated by the external page Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). It has set itself the goal of helping pivotal, non-commercial open science infrastructures to establish sustainable business models with multi-year campaigns.

Funding via SCOSS enables researchers and the public to use services free of charge. One example of such services is the external page Directory of Open Access Journals, another is the external page Sherpa/Romeo directory, where researchers can find information about publishers' open access policies. Other infrastructures supported in recent years include external page OpenCitations, external page Directory of Open Access Books, external page OAPEN (Online Library of Open Access Books) and external page Dryad.

Other projects supported by the ETH Library form important building blocks for the rapidly developing global open science infrastructure. These include the external page Research Organization Registry (ROR) initiative, which establishes a unique, open standard for the designation of research organisations and thus enables more efficient processes in university reporting and scientific publishing.

If you have any questions about the individual services, please contact the Research Data Management team ( or the E-Publishing team () at ETH Library.