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The ETH Library offers practical support for ETH Zurich faculty, staff and students with a free service allowing them to borrow the tools they need for their project work.

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?

Members of ETH Zurich now have free access to the online version of the leading American daily newspaper The New York Times.

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.

Join the Image Archive¡¯s very first Wikipedia writing workshop! It will take place online on Saturday, 15 May 2021, and the topic will be ETH portraits.

The ETH Library will be accessible again at all locations starting 3 August 2020. Please note the opening hours for the individual locations.

Members of ETH Zurich can now stream a selection of European and international art-house films.

What is the most effective way to secure data and store it for a long time? ETH Library¡¯s Digital Curation Office to the rescue!?

During the?Swiss Research Data Day on 12 June 2018?at ETH Zurich, best practices around handling, managing, and sharing research data are being discussed.

The Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF has published guidelines for Data Management Plans. As of October 2017 researchers are obliged to submit a Data Management Plan as an integral part of their research application.

ETH Library's Digital Curation Office will inform and answer your questions at the event on 6 July.? ?

From October 2017, researchers will be asked to submit a data management plan (DMP) as an integral part of their research proposal. Now the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has published guidelines for the first time.

Entering publications in the institutional bibliography or publishing via the open access repository during this period will not be possible.

oaFindr is an extensive collection of over 20 million academic articles published Open Access via the golden, green and hybrid path. All the articles are peer-reviewed.

Panel discussion and Wikipedia edit-a-thon at ETH Zurich. The relationship between academia and Wikipedia is ambivalent and not without its sceptics.

geodata4edu.ch provides Swiss universities with central access to a comprehensive range of federal and cantonal geodata requiring a licence. The portal gives researchers and students from different scientific disciplines and with different levels of GIS knowledge easier access to geodata to be used, among other things, for analyses, visualisations and modellings.

The video journal JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) publishes papers and academic experiments in the form of video recordings.

Whether it be films, games or magazines ¨C the new self-learning centre on the H?nggerberg campus offers personalised media for language-learning.

geodata4edu.ch is the new national portal for geodata in teaching and research and is geared towards Swiss Higher Education Institutions.

ETH-Bibliothek has licensed new journals on various subjects.

What is open access? What trends are there in academic publishing?

OldMapsOnline is the world¡¯s largest and most important platform for digitized historical maps with around 385,000 documents.

ETH-Bibliothek is testing a tool for searching journals until the end of February.

The two portals e-rara.ch (external link) and e-manuscripta.ch (external link) are paving the way for open data: wherever possible, the Public Domain Mark 1.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0 licence is now used for digitized documents.

In the webinar How to go Open Access, members of ETH Zurich and other interested people will learn all about the topic of open access.

ETH Zurich benefits from the access to further electronic resources.

Thanks to the Centennial Archive, more than 144,000 articles from the Optical Society of America?are now available online.

As of September 2016, scientists from ETH Zurich who publish in an open-access journal of the publisher Wiley can charge the publication fees directly to ETH Zurich.

As of 2017, all new calls in the research program Horizon 2020 will require research data to be made available in open access.

With the FP7 post-grant Open Access Pilot, the European Commission has set aside a total of EUR 4 million to fund open-access publications from FP7 projects that have already been completed.

The Thomas Mann Archive has been on modern temporary premises on the H?nggerberg campus since 11 July.

As of now, more than 600 eBooks on topics such as Windows, Office, CAD, image processing or programming can be downloaded as PDFs.

With its holdings of around 300 objects, the historical collection of instruments from the former Eidgen?ssische Sternwarte Zurich is now available online on E-Pics. ?

ETH-Bibliothek invites you to a debate on 28 June: how will scientific communication change in the future and what role will digital disruption play here?

Publications stemming from EU projects that are published in ETH E-Collection appear automatically in the European Commission's project reporting applications: the project database CORDIS and the European Commission's Participant Portal.

To coincide with the inauguration of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, ETH-Bibliothek presents its resources grouped into themes.

What qualities does concrete have? How is glass wool being produced? You can now find the entries of the online database Material-Archive via the central search in the Knowledge Portal.

The Thomas Mann Archive will be closed from Monday 20 June to Friday 8 July while it is being moved to a temporary location.

Research data from the ETH Data Archive are now also recorded in Web of Science.

The new full-text database Birkh?user Building Types online supports architecture enthusiasts on issues from the field of design and buildings.

More and more research funders demand that research projects are to be submitted together with a data management plan. But what does a data management plan look like and what aspects does it include?

More than 1.1 million scientific publications from the subjects of physics, mathematics, statistics, IT, quantitative biology and quantitative finance are accessible online at arXiv.org (external link). The e-prints can be downloaded open access in full text.

E-Periodica is the new platform for digitised Swiss journals, replacing its predecessor retro.seals.ch. It offers free access to the full texts of more than 400 journals from the 18th century to the present day.

For 2016, there is a new quota of vouchers available for free open-access articles in the journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Electrochemical Society and for F1000 Research.

In ETH E-Citations, the institutional bibliography of ETH Zurich, a little over 12,000 publications have been entered for the publication year of 2015.

ETH Zurich owns around 300 pieces of art. The pieces can now be viewed and zoomed in upon from several angles. If legally possible, you can also download the image.

ETH-Bibliothek organizes four workshops in the scope of the "Critical Thinking" Initiative.

Are you looking to publish selected research data and render it citable with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)?

ETH Zurich's DOI Desk has exceeded the 1 million mark for registered Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).

New 2016 programme of the Evening tours ETH Zurich.

Rare books, manuscripts, journals or images ¨C they should all be rendered accessible to the public online.

Who were the first ETH-students 160 years ago?

The Steering Committee for the programme "Scientific Information" has approved the project "Research Data Life-Cycle Management: From Pilot Implementations to National Services" (DLCM). The project began in August 2015 and runs until 2018.

With the FP7 post-grant Open Access Pilot, the European Commission has set aside a total of EUR 4 million to fund open-access publications from FP7 projects that have already been completed.

ProQuest Materials Science Collection is the most extensive database in the field of materials science. It contains literature from over 3,000 different sources and enables full-text access to more than 800 journals. ?

ETH Zurich's Earth Science Collections display approximately 1,200 minerals, fossils and rocks in 3D in their catalogue on the platform ETH E-Pics.

The programme for Open Access Days 2015 has been published and the conference is open for registration: sign up before 15 July!

Books from the well-known series Detail on the topics of construction, building services, building studies and design are now also available as e-books. ?

The legendary series Bauwelt Fundamente on the history and theory of architecture and urban design can now also be accessed online.

Browse the Knowledge Portal on your tablet. The results pages, user account and e-Shelf now also react responsively and adapt flexibly to different monitor sizes.

The database Detail Inspiration provides information on more than 3,000 example construction projects from the last 50 years, which were published as articles in the journal "Detail".

Broader range for architects, designers and art scientists.

ETH-Bibliothek has licensed new journals of the subjects biology, chemistry, computer science, psychology  and medicine.

Scientific findings from the field of plants.

The Image Archive of the ETH-Bibliothek is opening its virtual doors! Users can download 250,000 digitised images for free.

On Tuesday, 31 March from 18.15 to 19.15 there will be a public evening tour.

Full texts on the history of science and technology in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Essential guide on all aspects of publishing.

The norm database Perinorm now contains the VDE electrical engineering norms.

ETH-Bibliothek has licensed new journals of the subjects environment, transport, geography, mechanical engineering, biology, earth science, chemistry and medicine.

Web-based search tool makes geoscientific maps to be found easily.

The multidisciplinary database Web of Science Core Collection has been expanded.

As of January 2015, scientists from ETH Zurich who publish via the open-access publishers Frontiers and MDPI can charge the publication fees directly to ETH Zurich.

ETHorama is a new platform: it provides innovative access to digitized ETH-Bibliothek documents via an interactive map.

Are you a scientist at ETH Zurich? Do you have any questions regarding e-publishing and digital curation?

Web technologies never stand still. And nor do we. Over the last few months, we have been busy making our Knowledge Portal more user-friendly.

We reveal tips and tricks in only 15 minutes ¨C from databases and reference management to open access.

Temporarily, the availability of the latest print issues of science journals cannot be guaranteed in full due to delivery problems on the part of a supplier.

Members of ETH Zurich learn all about the topic of open access at two events.

The Nature Publishing Group has announced that it will be publishing Nature Communications as an open access journal in future.

ETH-Bibliothek offers the article search on the Knowledge Portal via a new service-provider: the Technical Information Centre of Denmark's DADS database has been replaced with the interdisciplinary Primo Central Index by the company Ex Libris.

As of October 2014, scientists from ETH Zurich who publish an article via the open-access publisher Copernicus can charge the publication fees directly to ETH Zurich.

ETH Zurich's DOI Desk registers DOI names for scientific literature and research data in Switzerland. Over 800,000 DOIs have already been issued since 2009.

As of 1 September you can return documents from ETH-Bibliothek, NEBIS circulation network and Zentralbibliothek at the information office at level E of the Main Building.

High-density living, spatial planning, housing sprawl ¨C terms that are currently on everyone's lips. The new illustrated book "Swissair Aerial Photographs: The Swissair Aerial Photography Archive" now takes you on a journey over mountains, landscapes, settlements and villages.

Information to the closing and opening hours of the Libraries, Collections and Archives on Friday, 29 August.

Over 1,000 objects can be studied in Baubibliothek's Material Collection, offering visitors the opportunity to experience woods, metals, rocks, synthetics or materials first hand.

The course dates for September till December have now been published.

ETH-Bibliothek has licensed new journals of the subjects environment, transport, geography, mechanical engineering, biology, chemistry and medicine.

Based on ETH Zurich's revised Ordinance on Doctoral Studies, exemptions from the open-access publication requirement is now only possible with a time limit and if the grounds for the deferment are specified.

The future role of scientific libraries on the higher education landscape

On Wednesday, 21 May a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about reference management using Mendeley.

On Thursday, 15 May a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about Web of Science and Scopus.

On Wednesday, 7 May a public and free training course tailored to the research needs of architects and construction engineers will take place from 17.30 to 19.00.

On Tuesday, 6 May a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about using E-Readers and Tablet PCs.

ETH-Bibliothek has licensed new journals of the subjects medicine, materials, biology, chemistry, mechanical engineering and psychology.

On Thursday, 24 April a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about using the iPad for study and work (advanced level).

A partial makeover of the Knowledge Portal will make it easier for people in search of information to navigate their way around our library services.

On Thursday, 3 April a public and free training course, in collaboration with the Zentralbibliothek Zurich, will take place from 16.15 to 17.45 about reference management using Citavi.

The institutional bibliography ETH E-Citations now offers a practical additional function. It is geared towards members of ETH Zurich who would like to self-archive their publication on the repository ETH E-Collection in accordance with the university¡¯s open-access policy.m?chten.