Until mid-July we offer trial access to the Euclid Prime e-journals collection as well as to one of the world’s leading mathematical journal, the Duke Mathematical Journal. Hereby you gain access to “38 journals in the field of …

With Library Press Display we offer you a 2-month trial access to more than 2’260 international, national and regional newspapers and magazines from all over the world. Monitor current incidents from your interest fields to stay up-to-date by setting up RSS feeds. The article archive covers the last 90 days. Also check out ...

Starting on the 1st of May you can access the following e-book collections on a trial basis for two months. Check them out and send your feedback to eresources@lib4ri.ch. World Scientific World Scientific offers access to more than 5230 e-books from a variety of disciplines, e.g. Biology, Chemistry, Engineering/Acous… ...

Our Newsletter «Lib4RI-Update #07» is out! Get a print copy at the library or read the online version below. English Version: • The Lib4RI Standards Portal • New Resources 2013 • Berlin Declaration signed Deutsche Version: • Das Lib4RI-Normenportal...

As part of our commitment towards researchers at Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL, we are happy to announce this introductory course for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 research institutes. At the end of April and the beginning of May, we will offer two 3 hour training sessions at each of our main locations in Dübendorf, ...

The library system IDS UZH (Information Network of the University of Zurich) will be integrated into the NEBIS library system. For this reason, the following NEBIS services won’t be available from 27 March, 9pm – 3 April 2013, 7am: • Orders in the library catalogue • Document loans • Document returns (no overdue ...

The RSC’s (Royal Society of Chemistry) Gold for Gold initiative enables researchers to publish Open Access articles in any RSC journal without paying the normal Open Access publication fee (between £1’000 and £2’500). As a subscribing institution to RSC Gold...

With the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities by the directorates of Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL, all four research institutes in the ETH Domain now support the open access idea. The PSI already signed the Berlin Declaration back in 2006. Recently, the directorates of Eawag, ...

New e-journals: • Two new journals from Nature Publishing Group: Heredity & Polymer Journal. • The new database Applied Science & Technology Source offers full texts for 1’200 journals. It replaces the full-text database Â…

The new year brings several new, expanded, and updated e-book collections for all members of Eawag, Empa, PSI, and WSL. New e-book collections: • Nearly 5’000 science and engineering e-books from Cambridge University Press. • Chemical science e-books from the Royal Society of Chemistry...

We have licensed several new databases and reference works for our users at Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL: SpecInfo gives access to some of the largest collections in mass spectrometry (MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and Infrared and near Infrared spectroscopy. This is a trial access for 2013. P…

Open Access refers to providing free online access to research articles. Last Monday, researchers at Empa were invited to discuss the challenges and opportunities of Open Access publishing. Gian-Luca Bona gave an introduction to the seminar Open Access publishing: How should Empa-researchers respond?. He also announced the recent ...

Since the first of January, we offer the Lib4RI Standards Portal as a central starting point for searching for and finding standards and technical guidelines. The Lib4RI Standards Portal includes bibliographic information for more than 1.5 million standards and technical guidelines. This does away with the previous, sometimes tedious ...