News and courses
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New crowdsourcing campaign: Georeferencing maps
The ETH Library needs your help!
Literature meets technology: videos for the “Magic Mountain” anniversary
Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain” turns one hundred. To mark the anniversary, the Thomas Mann Archive is producing a video series that places “The Magic Mountain” in the technological-historical context of ETH Zurich and points to its contemporary relevance.
Events
Our doors are open to everyone. Come see our exhibits, take one of our public tours, or plan a private tour of our archives or collections for groups of five or more. Researchers and science lovers are invited to attend our conferences and podium discussions.
Courses and workshops
We hold courses and workshops that are open to the public and cover topics such as information research, reference management and scientific writing as well as research data management and open access.
| Title | Date | Duration | No. Places available/total |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to go Open Access | 25.04.2024 | 60 min | 13 / 30 |
| Mastering scientific writing with ChatGPT and other AI tools | 26.04.2024 | 3h 45min | 0 / 25 |
| Mastering scientific writing with ChatGPT and other AI tools | 03.05.2024 | 3h 45min | 0 / 25 |
| Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 08.05.2024 | 75 min | 2 / 4 |
Blogs and social media
The ETH Library regularly updates different blogs with content from our collections, archives and holdings: from highlights from the archive to the latest results of crowdsourcing initiatives all the way to multimedia stories posted on the storytelling platform Explora.
On social media, we share our knowledge on a variety of different platforms – from Facebook to Instagram to YouTube – in order to promote dialogue both within and outside of ETH Zurich.