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The Lib4RI team wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas, relaxing holidays, and a good start into the new year!

The theme of this year’s Open Access week fits very well to the recent developments at Lib4RI. The institutional repository DORA was launched in Fall 2016 for Eawag and Empa, and in Spring 2017 for WSL. By sending their accepted versions to DORA, researchers can now easily…

As Daniel Perez, the former group leader of the “Publication Services Team”, has decided to take on a new challenge, Lib4RI had to find a person to fill his position. It was an honour to have had him as our “Publication Services Team” group leader and we heartily thank him for his commitment and in particular for his valuable contributions to the development of DORA, our new institutional repository. We wish him all the best for the future!

Give us feedback on our services and share your thoughts to help us plan the library’s future! The survey is very brief and will only take 5-7 minutes to complete. Please find the survey here: English version / German version. The survey will be available until December 8.

Autumn is at our doorsteps and so is our biannual introductory course Searching & Managing Scientific Information for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 federal research institutes. From Oct to Dec 2017, we offer six individually bookable modules.

Lib4RI users can now access again the Swiss geodata distributed via GeoVITE. The access to GeoVITE ceased in October 2016 after a relaunch of the platform was planned as part of the SUK P-5 project Geodata4Edu. Geodata4Edu is planned as a national portal for geodata in teaching and research for Switzerland. It offers access to a comprehensive range of geodata and is geared towards students and researchers with both basic and specialist GIS knowledge. Meanwhile the project is quite advanced and GeoVITE was relaunched with most of the data and functionalities originally included.

We are pleased to inform you that DORA Eawag and DORA Empa have become productive. We finished the migration of the old RefWorks-based bibliographies of Eawag and Empa. Additionally, we also verified, extended and corrected a fair share of the metadata and transformed all available PDFs into the archival format PDF/A.

The ASM international Alloy Phase Diagram Database contains more than 40,300 binary and ternary phase diagrams, each with their associated crystal and reaction data. Users can search for phase diagrams either via the database content tree, the element search or the search slot. A video tutorial can be found here.

We are pleased about the lively interest in our spring training series «Searching & Managing Scientific Information» , with some 120 registrations so far, and take this opportunity to say thank you. At the same time we would like to draw your attention on the upcoming sessions at Eawag-Empa Dübendorf, PSI Villigen and WSL Birmensdorf, for which spare seats are still available.

From 1 March 2017, Lib4RI users have access to the UNESCO – Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO – EOLSS). EOLSS comprises nearly 600 book volumes of thematically organised, peer- reviewed state-of-the-art content. EOLSS is one of the largest community oriented encyclopedia creation projects of the world, with contributions coming from several thousand renowned scholars from more than 100 countries.

The Springer Journals Archives were recently added to the three already existing Swiss National Licences. However, comprising about 3.6 million journal articles from more than 1,500 scientific journals, the Springer Journals Archives outnumber the other three national licences combined. The total number of articles available via the Swiss National Licences amounts for more than 5.5 million now.

DORA WSL [Digital Object Repository at WSL] is now online. This is a soft launch, meaning that we are still in the process of migrating the roughly 15,000 publications from the old WSL bibliography into DORA. DORA WSL already includes over 7,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles. The remaining articles and other publication types will follow in the next months. The data migration will be finished by the time the new WSL website goes online in the summer of 2017. For a live overview of the migration progress, see this page.

It is almost spring and time to announce our biannual introductory course «Searching & Managing Scientific Information» for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 federal research institutes. We are delighted to offer you six individually bookable modules between end of March and mid May 2017.

The library Lib4RI invites interested researchers from Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL to join this free MethodsNow / SciFinder workshop held by Dr Philippe Kamalaprija, a representative for CAS at ACS International.

Our Newsletter «Lib4RI-Update #13» is now available! Get a print copy at the library or read the online version.

Have a look at our new reference works, databases and e-books in 2017!

In 2017, we can offer you the more new journal packages, two of which have been set up on a trial basis.