Open Library Badge 2025

Themes and criteria met

• Participation and Citizen Science

  • Implementing user surveys in 2017 and 2024 to assess user needs (Criterion A1)
  • Collaboration with Wikimedia CH (Criterion A4)

• Open Access

  • Training module on Scientific Publishing (Criterion C1)
  • DORA as Open Access Infrastructure (Criterion C2)
  • All publications and course materials are available Open Access with CC BY 4.0 (Criterion C3)
  • Engagement in CoDOA-CH „Creating a Sustainable Funding Scheme for Diamond Open Access through Institutional Collaboration in Switzerland“ (Criterion C4)

• Open Data

  • Information about research data management in training modules, webpage and consultation offers (Criterion D1)
  • Information on sources for text data mining (Criterion D2)
  • Engagement in Swiss Research Data Support Network and lead of the Data Stewardship Coordinators Node (Criterion D4)

• Open Source

  • Training module for Open Source software Zotero (Criterion E1)
  • Development of open source Search Tool (Criterion E3)

• Open Educational Resources

  • Publication of course material under CC BY 4.0 (Criterion F3)

• Open Government and Open Research Information

  • Organisation of information and discussion event about the Barcelona Declaration (Criterion G1)
  • Active participation and support of Swiss Open Academic Data community SOAD (Criterion G4)