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Fulbright Specialist Program 2025
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Invite a US Expert for 2 to 6 weeks to your group for lecturing, curriculum development and so much more. Submit your proposals by 30 September 2024 to benefit from full funding by the Fulbright program. ?
Barrier-free access to ETH Zurich buildings
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The majority of ETH Zurich buildings are not yet barrier-free. In addition to a lack of automatic entrance doors or insufficient wheelchair-accessible toilet facilities, many buildings are not yet equipped with the new barrier-free signage. Two projects have started work and aim to make ETH barrier-free over the next twenty years.
Call 2024: Support for international cooperation in education
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Movetia, the Swiss national agency for exchange and mobility, has launched a call for its "International Programme". The programme supports cooperation in education with partner institutions worldwide.
Fulbright Specialist Program 2024
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Invite a US Expert for 2 to 6 weeks to your group for lecturing, curriculum development and so much more. Submit your proposals by 28 February 2024 to benefit from full funding by the Fulbright program. ?
Turn of the year 2023/2024
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Special opening times and operating hours apply at ETH Zurich around the holidays.
Webinar: Fulbright Grants
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Learn about the opportunities for Fulbright grants for inviting a US scientist or studying or doing research in the USA, on 30 October 2023, 16.00h.
Are your electrical devices safe?
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Electrical devices are ubiquitous in our daily work. To ensure they pose no danger, they must be checked occasionally. We can all play a role.
IARU Early Career Collaboration Grants
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Applications are now open for IARU Early-Career Collaboration Grants for a short-term research stay at one of the world's leading research universities.
New open access publishing opportunities from 2023 onwards
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New open access agreements with the American Chemical Society (ACS), Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Microbiology Society, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press (OUP) and Portland Press.
Young Researchers’ Exchange with South Korea and Japan
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The Leading House Asia has launched the 2023 calls for young researchers’ exchange with South Korea and Japan. Application deadline is 31 March 2023 (South Korea) and 30 April 2023 (Japan).
Fulbright Grant Program 2024–2025
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Apply now to the Fulbright Foreign Student Program or the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for a grant for studying or doing research in the USA.
"Germaine de Sta?l": funding for cooperation with France
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The call 2024–2025 of the "Germaine de Sta?l" programme for bilateral research cooperation between Switzerland and France has been launched. Application deadline is 15 June 2023.
Turn of the year 2022/2023
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Special opening times and operating hours apply at ETH Zurich around the holidays.
Movetia Information Event: Funding for international cooperation in education
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Join this online event by Movetia, the Swiss national agency for exchange and mobility, to learn about funding opportunities for international cooperation in education, on Tuesday, 28 June 2022, at 12.00.
Surgeon, officer and politician Eugen Bircher’s private library
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A new addition to e-rara: the digitized private library of Eugen Bircher, a Swiss surgeon and military author who worked at ETH Zurich for several years.
"We see more complex linguistic biographies"
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The Language Center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich is celebrating its 20-year anniversary. In this interview, director Sabina Schaffner takes stock and explains how attitudes towards foreign language learning have changed.
Carpooling - On the road together
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Now that Covid restrictions have been lifted, more and more of us are returning to the workplace and travelling back and forth between locations and institutes again. Here’s an idea for anyone who would rather have company in the car.
ETH Zurich information material updated
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An updated version of the information brochure entitled “Where the future begins” along with a corresponding PowerPoint presentation are now available.
Coffee Lectures: new knowledge in ten minutes
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In the event series of the ETH Library from June 2022, you can get input on tools and topics that support your academic work in a short and crisp form.
Rely on 必博官网,必博体育 Services for a successful working day and a new ETH Zurich experience!
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Whether you’re looking to advertise an event (必博官网,必博体育 Channels), travel sustainably to and from work by bike, bus or car (Mobility), or find your way quickly around the campus (Signage) – 必博官网,必博体育 Services is always at hand to help lighten the load for ETH members.
Four new ways of discovering ETH
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In mid-March, the 必博官网,必博体育 Experience group launched four exciting theme tours. You can now feel the fascination of modern art, discover how the anergy grid beneath the H?nggerberg campus saves CO2, and reach for the stars at the Semper Observatory.
Special e-bike rates for members of the ETH community
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Anyone at ETH who wants to get from one place to another quickly can hire an e-bike from one of four convenient ETH Zurich locations.
Sanctions search engine for ETH Zurich
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As a leading international university, ETH Zurich places great significance on its international relationships and partnerships. Despite the numerous advantages they afford, one should still exercise caution when pursuing activities in the international arena, as potential contractual partners might be on an official sanctions list. A new search tool has been launched to help you do your due diligence.
Important changes to email archiving
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A large part of the emails that ETH members send or receive are copied to a mail archive and stored there. There will now be some changes to this. For example, emails that have been in the mail archive (https://mailarchive.ethz.ch) for more than ten years will now be automatically deleted. Read here about what this means for you and what new options you have as a result. ?
Online Information Fair: ETH Library – Your partner for managing the research life cycle
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Between 16.00 and 18.00 on 11 May 2022, doctoral students will be given a compact overview of the ETH Library services relevant for their doctoral thesis.
Bibliometrics help you with your research
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Sie forschen, schreiben, publizieren. Doch wer nimmt Ihre Ergebnisse wahr? Wer liest Ihre wissenschaftlichen Beitr?ge? Wie h?ufig wird Ihre Forschung in- und ausserhalb der akademischen Welt wahrgenommen?
Data management plans for the SNSF
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The semi-?annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (1?April 2022).
Information on the Corona regulations of the ETH Library from 17 February 2022
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For all ETH Library locations regular opening hours apply from 17 February on and all services are available without restriction.
Public engagement of science: Citizen Science Knowledge Center at the Southern Danish University (SDU).
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The Citizen Science Knowledge Center is hosted by the SDU Library and is striving for a shift toward open science. Learn about the strategies and thinking behind it at the 17:15 Colloquium on 24 February 2022.
Research data management and related topics: know-how for your research project
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This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and the Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to the diverse aspects of research data management.
"Germaine de Sta?l": funding for cooperation with France
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The call 2023 of the "Germaine de Sta?l" programme for bilateral research cooperation between Switzerland and France has been launched. Application deadline has been extended until 15 June 2022.
Interactively experience celestial events with AstroRara
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AstroRara offers digital and interactive access to three new works. Historical publications on eclipses, retrograde motion and comet tails are now available for use as multimedia.
Impressive numbers and relevance for the Research Collection in 2021
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The ETH Zurich publication platform continuously proves its importance to researchers in all fields. Current statistics show the number of downloads and open access entries rose again last year.
Coffee Lectures: new knowledge in ten minutes
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In the event series of the ETH Library from February 2022, you can get input on tools and topics that support your academic work in a short and crisp form.
The new ETH Library 2022 course programme
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Our new courses and workshops for the first half of the year are now online. They cover a wide range of interesting and exciting topics that will help you with your studies or work.
ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2022
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Early career scientists receive an extensive overview on Research Data Management, its principles, its practical implications and on useful tools. Register now!
Access to open-access articles for members of ETH Zurich as of 2022
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Receive information relating to the new open-?access agreements with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), Company of Biologists, IEEE and Institute of Physics (IOP).
Thomas Mann manuscripts online
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Thomas Mann Archives Online allow access to further original documents.
Call 2022: Support for international cooperation in education
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Movetia, the Swiss national agency for exchange and mobility, has launched a call for its "International Programme". The programme supports cooperation in education with partner institutions worldwide.
Young Researchers’ Exchange with South Korea and China
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- Leading House Asia
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The Leading House Asia has launched the 2022 calls for young researchers’ exchange with South Korea and China. Application deadline is 20 March 2022 (South Korea) and 31 March 2022 (China).
Information on the Corona regulations of the ETH Library from 3 January 2022
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Due to the closure of the ETH Zurich buildings, access to individual ETH Library locations is only possible for ETH members.
Data management plan instructions: Specific support for ETH Zurich researchers
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The ETH Library provides concise instructions for preparing a data management plan which take into account the specific conditions that exist at ETH Zurich.
Listen and reflect – fifth Thomas Mann Lecture in two languages and online
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The fifth Thomas Mann Lecture was broadcast live from Zurich and Harvard and, for the first time, made available for listeners in German and English.
Turn of the year 2021/2022
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For the period from Friday, 24 December 2021 up to and including Sunday, 2 January 2022, special ETH Zurich opening times and operational hours apply.
Free tool lending for your study project
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The ETH Library offers practical support for ETH Zurich faculty, staff and students with a free service allowing them to borrow the tools they need for their project work.
From the bookshelves of a mathematics professor – New private library on e-rara
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With the newly published collection “Private Library of Johannes Orelli”, we take you back to the early years of the Federal Polytechnic Institute – what is now ETH Zurich.
Albert Einstein – from mediocre student to Nobel Prize winner
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The new Explora story is online: this year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize in Physics. But how much ETH was there really in Einstein? And how much Einstein is there in ETH?
Open access – Don’t miss the deadline for funding applications
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Open access funding: the deadline for funding applications for articles in subscription journals is 14 December 2021.
Archives and libraries: The long goodbye? History in immersive media
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The 17:15 Colloquium on 25 November 2021 will address the potential of virtual technologies in educational contexts and provide input for archives or libraries.
A new kind of literature search – create knowledge maps with Open Knowledge Maps
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Discover the new feature at ETH Library @ swisscovery and get a new perspective on the results of your literature search.
Thomas Mann and crowd psychology – Save the date
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As part of the Thomas Mann Lectures, which are currently being held virtually, Professor Judith Ryan discusses the author’s literary examination of contemporary theories on crowd psychology.
Take part and win: the ETH Library online survey
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Take part in a short online survey on the ETH Library’s current image campaign and win a book voucher worth CHF 50.
Research Collection – interesting reading
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What are the topics in focus? What is being downloaded and cited via the Research Collection? Current statistics show that in Q3 2021, reading choices were dominated by COVID-19 and climate change.
When cows meet robots: Agricultural sciences at ETH Zurich
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150 years of agricultural sciences at ETH Zurich! A new mini-series on Explora is being created from nostalgic images and diverse materials, but also from the future perspectives of researchers.
Hone your scientific research skills with the ETH Library courses
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Are you familiar with our courses and workshops? They cover a wide range of interesting and exciting topics that will help you with your studies or work. You can attend online or in person, and plenty of different dates and times are available.
TAIR – The database for the plant Arabidopsis thaliana
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Members of ETH Zurich can now find out everything about the plant Arabidopsis thaliana on The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) database.
Working efficiently with ETH Library @ swisscovery
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Start your research via ETH Zurich’s swisscovery interface.
New: Author names in the Research Collection and People Search
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Employees of ETH Zurich can now save their preferred author name, including variants, in their ETH profile. This way, authors are included in the publication search in full.
Polybahn resumes service
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After spending 3.5 months in the depot, the Polybahn is back in service today. It will even run on Sundays.
Integrated circulation and information desk
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The ETH Library now offers collection and consultation services in the ETH main building at the service desk in the InfoCenter.
Organisational energy
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The 17:15 colloquium on 30 September 2021 will address the question of how organisations can develop in the "new normal" and how they recognise warning signs of overload.
Data management plans for the SNSF
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The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (1 October 2021).
More colour for the web content
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With the newly introduced interaction design as well as a revised colour concept, a colour focus is set on the ETH websites. The goal is an attractive and consistent web presence for all screen sizes.
The Workshop Platform now assists with design and development
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Since 1 April 2021, the ETH platform for workshop technology (in short Workshop Platform) has expanded its range of services to include design and development. This service is offered free of charge to ETH members.
Get ready for your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis
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Now, learn as part of self-study why research question, outline and proposal are crucial.
Dimensions Analytics: comprehensive view of publications
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With Dimensions Analytics, the ETH Library provides members of ETH Zurich with an interdisciplinary database that allows for a comprehensive view of scientific publications.
Experience knowledge at Octavo – The collections and archives of ETH Zurich
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Research and knowledge brought to life: ETH Zurich presents selected holdings from its collections and archives at the new external location Octavo.
Adoption of the Swiss National Open Research Data Strategy
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swissuniversities, together with ERI partner organisations, has developed the Swiss National Open Research Data Strategy. Following the adoption, an action plan is now on the agenda.
Gain insights with bibliometric evaluations
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The ETH Library is launching a new, comprehensive bibliometric service. The quantitative analysis of publications and their reception (such as citations) can assist researchers and departments in their work.
Across rivers and gorges. Switzerland and its bridge-builders
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The new Explora story is online. It is dedicated to the bridges of Switzerland, the engineers who designed them and lots more. Take a closer look!
Fewer clicks to get to the full text: LibKey Nomad
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The LibKey Nomad browser extension gives you direct access to the PDF of journal articles.
In perfect balance – The G?mb?c G 1854, a new item in our collection
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There is a new highlight in the Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Aids: the custom-made G?mb?c G 1854. The gift is a tangible piece of 20 years of scientific history.
ETH Library Kaleidoscope 2020
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The Kaleidoscope 2020 gives you an insight into the topics that we have been particularly dealing with at the ETH Library during the past year.
Finding journals quickly and easily
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Journal search for holdings of the ETH Zurich libraries using ETH Library @ swisscovery
Information on the opening hours and services of the ETH Library from 7 June 2021
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The ETH Library returns to its normal opening hours at all locations, since all ETH buildings are open again.
Well prepared for the learning session
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Access to the media of the ETH Library requires a swisscovery registration and a SWITCH edu-ID.
A new era begins on E-Pics: curating, auto-tagging and georeferencing
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Today, 1 June 2021, the Image Archive is launching its E-Pics catalogue as part of the new front end. The new front end features an intuitive, modern and responsive design for a simple, fast and particularly “fresh” new version of E-Pics catalogues.
Women in science – Female pioneers at ETH Zurich
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A new release from the ETH Zurich Tours app is online! Join our second tour; discover the H?nggerberg campus for yourself, and learn all about the role women played in the 160-year history of the science university.
Coffee Lectures: new knowledge in ten minutes
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In the June series, you can get input on tools and topics that support your academic work in a short and crisp form.
必博官网,必博体育 Info in its 5th year as central contact point
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For five years, the 必博官网,必博体育 Info Team has been committed to serving both the Zentrum campus and H?nggerberg campus as well as the telephone switchboard.
Zoom can now be used indefinitely
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The ETH community may now use the Zoom videoconferencing application indefinitely for their work. ETH Zurich has negotiated a solution that incorporates the Canton of Zurich’s data protection recommendations and expands the usage options for ETH students, researchers and staff.
The Image Archive is running a Wikipedia writing workshop
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Join the Image Archive’s very first Wikipedia writing workshop! It will take place online on Saturday, 15 May 2021, and the topic will be ETH portraits.
GLAMhack 2021: cultural data successfully hacked – a look back
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We look back on two intensive hackathon days and a diverse supporting programme. Gain an insight into the online event and the projects that emerged from it.
Read and Publish agreement with Wiley for transparent, global publications
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The new Wiley Read and Publish agreement allows researchers at ETH Zurich to enjoy unlimited access to scientific insights worldwide and to publish their own results free of charge.
In the service of research and teaching: watch the e-rara anniversary event
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The tenth anniversary of e-rara was marked with presentations, visualisations and discussions – online, in public and live. Find out what researchers have been saying about retrospective digitisation and learn more about the platform online.
Information on the opening hours and services of the ETH Library from 26 April 2021
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The ETH Library in the main building is now also open again on weekends. Additionally, the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library on the H?nggerberg is open during the week. All other library locations will open on 17 May 2021. Our digital offers and services are available to you as usual.
Role of university libraries in safeguarding professional scientific ethics
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The topic of the 17:15 Colloquium on 29 April 2021 is the rules for ensuring good scientific practice reloaded and the role of libraries in upholding scientific professional ethics.
Retrospective digitisation – find out more and join in the discussion
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We will celebrate ten years of e-rara with a virtual panel discussion – an exchange between experts, researchers and people interested in science on “Retrospective digitisation in Switzerland”.
A view of the world – digital maps available online
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Electronic and geo-referenced maps such as the “Baumkataster Basel-Stadt” (2020), the “Plan der Stadt Zürich nach Breitinger” (1867) and other maps are now available for use.
GLAMhack 2021 – Cultural data goes creative
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The 7th Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon offers a collaborative platform for developing ideas for creative ways of linking culture and technology.
Full migration to swisscovery on 1 April 2021
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Media that were borrowed prior to 7 December 2020 must be returned by the end of March 2021.
Global Health – Leading source of research on public health
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The Global Health database provides rapid access to both standard works and current specialist articles on public health around the world – and it’s free for members of ETH Zurich.
Deep learning in document analysis
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At the 17:15 Colloquium on 25 March 2021, Prof. Thilo Stadelmann will give an introduction to the topic and present current research results. Be there and join the discussion!
Women at ETH Zurich: an insight into the history and a discussion on the present-day situation
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Take part in the virtual public tour on 23 March 2021 and gain new insights. A discussion with guests, including ETH Zurich Rector Sarah Springman, will also give you an opportunity to ask any questions you may have.
Data management plans for the SNSF
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The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (1 April 2021).
The ETH Library extends open-access funding
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As of now, the ETH library will cover open-access fees for all corresponding author articles by members of ETH Zurich.
Information on the opening hours and services of the ETH Library from 1 March 2021
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The ETH Library in the main builing remains open. In addition, the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library opens as well. All other locations are closed. Our digital offers and services are available to you as usual.
Renku – the ETH platform for digital reproducibility in science
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At the 17:15 Colloquium on 25 February 2021, Dr Andreas Bleuler from the Swiss Data Science Center will show you how Renku can drastically reduce the effort of digital reproducibility.
The new ETH Library 2021 course programme
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Our new courses, webinars and workshops for the 2021 spring semester are now online. Expect a wide range of interesting and exciting topics.
More knowledge, more benefits – Stay up to date with Feedly
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Feedly is a tool that enables comprehensive academic knowledge management. A total of 50 available test licenses for Feedly Enterprise are now available for members of ETH Zurich.