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Under the direction of ETH training partner Digicomp, IT Services offer ¡°Smart Working Training Days¡± for all ETH Zurich employees. In three separate modules, specialists provide useful know-how on the efficient use of Microsoft 365/Teams for virtual collaboration.

The Executive Board has decided to continue to permit the use of Zoom at ETH, initially (for legal reasons) until the end of June 2021. However, the plan is to keep the conferencing tool available after the coronavirus crisis ends.

swisscovery is replacing the ETH Library Search Portal. Read on to find out more about the change and why you need to register.

Two special accessories are now available for purchase at the ETH Store: silk scarves featuring insect prints inspired by ETH Zurich's Entomological Collection.?

In this extraordinary year, social distancing and virtual communication have turned our everyday life topsy-turvy. Christmas cards help us connect and give a sense of belonging.

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

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.

In August, WSL Director and ETH Professor Koni Steffen had a fatal accident during field work in Greenland. Next Friday, the WSL will now hold a virtual memorial service for the climate researcher.

While this year¡¯s ETH Day on Saturday, 21 November will have to take place with almost no guests, the approximately one-hour Academic Celebration will be broadcast live from the Semper Aula.

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.