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  • Towards an open, scholar-led communication ecosystem: a new proposal from cOAlition S 29.11.2023

    Towards an open, scholar-led communication ecosystem: a new proposal from cOAlition S

    cOAlition S recently published a proposal to transform the scientific publishing landscape. It envisions a community-based scholarly communication system in which all versions of an article and its associated peer-review reports are openly available from the start, without authors facing any charges. Furthermore, it advocates that authors, rather than publishers, decide when and where to publish their work.

  • Major renovation of Lib4RI WSL Birmensdorf 21.11.2023

    Major renovation of Lib4RI WSL Birmensdorf

    The library at WSL will be renovated from Monday, 4 December 2023, until the end of February 2024. In the week before, the collection will be relocated and the reading room can be used to a restricted extend only. Lib4RI will be there for you during the renovation albeit with some limited services.

  • Talk by Mark Cieliebak on LLMs & applications 02.11.2023

    Talk by Mark Cieliebak on LLMs & applications

    On Monday, Mark Cieliebak from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at ZHAW gave a talk on "Language Models. Fundamental technologies and applications". The slides and video are now available for people within the four Research Institutes.

  • Open Library Badge 22.10.2023

    Open Library Badge

    We are committed to Openness. And our commitment is now certified! Just in time for Open Access Week, Lib4RI was awarded the "Open Library Badge".

  • Lecture series: AI tools & LLMs 18.10.2023

    Lecture series: AI tools & LLMs

    As the demand for information and better understanding of AI tools, their capabilities, limitations and implications for academia and the publishing domain continues to surge, Lib4RI is excited to announce a lecture series in October and November 2023!

  • New Lib4RI Info «Copyright & CC Licences» 16.10.2023

    New Lib4RI Info «Copyright & CC Licences»

    In your day-to-day scientific work, copyright affects you when you publish or share your own work and when you cite or re-use the work of others, including modified or derivative versions. Learn now what you should know for your own publications as well as for the re-use of copyrighted content.

  • Open Access Week 2023 – events in Switzerland 15.10.2023

    Open Access Week 2023 – events in Switzerland

    A number of Swiss libraries have joined forces to put together a wide-ranging programme of online, hybrid and local events in different formats for the OA-Week in Switzerland this year (23-29. October).

  • Hiring Project Manager (80%) 12.10.2023

    Hiring Project Manager (80%)

    Lib4RI is looking for a Project Manager (80%) to coordinate two work packages in the two-year cooperative project "Open e-Learning Modules for Open Research Data (ORD) and Research Data Management (RDM)", co-financed by the ORD progamme of the ETH domain. Contribute to this unique project and join our team!

  • We are hiring! 07.09.2023

    We are hiring!

    Join our team as Repository Manager! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to manage our institutional repository DORA and various other exiting tasks.

  • Open Access Week Switzerland 2023 – events by Lib4RI 17.08.2023

    Open Access Week Switzerland 2023 – events by Lib4RI

    Lib4RI is excited to announce the upcoming Open Access (OA) Week 2023, taking place from 23-29 October 2023. Taking up this year’s theme «Community over Commercialisation», Lib4RI will be present on all main campuses with OA information booths to promote the importance of OA within the research community. In addition, we are thrilled to host a lecture by Matthias Egger on OA at WSL.

  • Lib4RI autumn training 2023: Searching & Managing Scientific Information 16.08.2023

    Lib4RI autumn training 2023: Searching & Managing Scientific Information

    Autumn is at our doorsteps and so is our biannual training series «Searching & Managing Scientific Information» for PhD students and other interested members of the 4 federal research institutes Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL. From September to December 2023, we offer eight individually bookable modules, this time also including a new module 7+ on data handling using Python, Pandas and Jupyter Notebook.

  • Upcycling old books 09.08.2023

    Upcycling old books

    Most of Lib4RI's resources today are available and used digitally. But this has of course not always been the case. So, what do we do with the physical materials that have become obsolete? We upcycle them and give them a new life as a wall!

  • Water Resources Research is one of five Journals of Wiley that flipped to Gold OA 20.07.2023

    Water Resources Research is one of five Journals of Wiley that flipped to Gold OA

    Five Journals of the Wiley Read & Publish agreement will be transitioned from hybrid to Gold OA by the end of August 2023. While flipping journal titles is a desired development, they will no longer be part of the Read & Publish agreement and corresponding authors will be required to pay APCs for those journals going forward.

  • How can I increase my visibility? 12.07.2023

    How can I increase my visibility?

    Nowadays, as the research output is expanding exponentially, it is crucial for researchers to enhance their visibility. We created a page with information on how to increase one’s visibility, author research profiles, identifiers and open research.

  • Lib4RI now offers bibliometric analyses 01.06.2023

    Lib4RI now offers bibliometric analyses

    We now offer bibliometric analyses for individual researchers, research units and institutions. Our portfolio currently includes reports on publication output, research areas and collaboration analysis.

  • Vacancy: Project Manager 30.05.2023

    Vacancy: Project Manager

    Join our team! We offer a multifaceted and exciting position as Project Manager (m/w/d) 80-100% at Lib4RI.

  • CObaz: Access AFCEN's RCC-MRx code 25.05.2023

    CObaz: Access AFCEN's RCC-MRx code

    We are happy to announce that we licensed the RCC-MRx code (Design and Construction Rules for mechanical components of nuclear installations) through the CObaz - AFNOR database for researchers from PSI.

  • A successful SOLA-Stafette for "DORA Express: Lib4RI & Friends" 08.05.2023

    A successful SOLA-Stafette for "DORA Express: Lib4RI & Friends"

    114.77 km, 2’747 m of ascent, 14 legs, more than 14’000 people, 1025 teams – and among them “DORA Express: Lib4RI & Friends”. Our team with the starting number 509 successfully completed the 48th SOLA-Stafette on Saturday!

  • ChatGPT and scientific writing 03.05.2023

    ChatGPT and scientific writing

    ChatGPT ‘s usage in scientific writing has been debated since the AI driven language processing tool has become available to the wider public. We assembled a page with information related to ChatGPT and scientific writing for your convenience.

  • Lib4RI-Update #30: Welcome to our new website! 23.04.2023

    Lib4RI-Update #30: Welcome to our new website!

    We are thrilled to announce the relaunch of our website with a completely new look, added features and improved navigation. Through the changes, our website has become more user-friendly and hopefully easier for you to access the information and resources you need.

  • New Lib4RI-Info «Scientific Writing» 12.04.2023

    New Lib4RI-Info «Scientific Writing»

    Check out our new Lib4RI-Info Sheet about scientific writing! It gives an overview of the important steps when writing and publishing an article.

  • Successful online event «Data Stewardship: Concepts and Implementations» 05.04.2023

    Successful online event «Data Stewardship: Concepts and Implementations»

    How could data stewardship be organised at the four research institutes? Which resources are needed and how do other institutions such as TU Delft and ETH Zurich do it? These red-hot issues were debated, among others, at the online Lib4RI-Event «Data Stewardship: Concepts and Implementations” last Friday.

  • Welcome to our relaunched website! 03.04.2023

    Welcome to our relaunched website!

    We are excited to share our new website with you! It not only has a completely new look, but also offers some additional services and an improved navigation.

  • Lib4RI at SOLA: join our team! 27.03.2023

    Lib4RI at SOLA: join our team!

    Do you want to be part of an incredible event and run with 14’000 people in the greater Zurich area? Join our team now for the 48th SOLA-Stafette! Our team “DORA Express: Lib4RI & Friends” is still looking for fellow runners.

  • Digital Cleanup Day: take out your digital waste! 14.03.2023

    Digital Cleanup Day: take out your digital waste!

    It’s no surprise: much like in our natural environment, our digital world is full of trash. Pointless emails, redundant files, unused apps, blurry photos and video duplicates – all of it digital waste. It sits in backups, lies on severs, cloud services, and it continuously needs energy causing digital pollution, even when we have forgotten about it. On international Digital Cleanup Day this Saturday, 18 March, we want to improve this situation!

  • Lib4RI spring training: Searching & Managing Scientific Information 19.02.2023

    Lib4RI spring training: Searching & Managing Scientific Information

    Spring is coming and so is our biannual training series «Searching & Managing Scientific Information» for PhD students and other interested members of the 4 federal research institutes Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL. From March to June 2023, we offer eight individually bookable modules, this time also including a new module 5+ for intermediate/advanced LaTeX users.

  • It's International Love Data Week! 12.02.2023

    It's International Love Data Week!

    Celebrate Love Data Week with us! Every year around Valentine’s Day, universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations, and individuals host and participate in data-related events and activities. This year’s theme “Data: Agent of Change” aims to inspire people to use data to bring about changes that matter. If data is accessible to everyone and guides our decision-making, we can move mountains regarding policy, environment, and society.

  • Lib4RI-Update #29: Open Access – A Look Back at 2022 05.02.2023

    Lib4RI-Update #29: Open Access – A Look Back at 2022

    Publishing Open Access (OA) has become the new normal in scientific publishing. Research funders and institutions support OA to make research available to the broader public, thereby allowing for better visibility, higher chances of usage, and increased impact of outputs.

  • Electronic resources: changes in 2023 23.01.2023

    Electronic resources: changes in 2023

    We are delighted to announce the new library subscriptions and Read & Publish agreements for the year 2023. Our core subscriptions have been maintained, while our commitment to providing our users with any additional scientific literature resources they may need remains a priority.

  • Webinar: CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform 09.01.2023

    Webinar: CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform

    Lib4RI recently subscribed to the full CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform including the modules SciFinder-n (the successor of SciFinder Classic), Formulus and Analytical Methods.

  • Swiss Academic Libraries Consortium reaches Open Access (OA) agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS) 05.01.2023

    Swiss Academic Libraries Consortium reaches Open Access (OA) agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS)

    We are pleased to announce that the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries has successfully concluded negotiations with ACS and entered into a three-year Read & Publish agreement. Under its terms, corresponding authors affiliated with Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL now have the opportunity to publish their research OA at no cost, provided certain conditions are met.