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The new Hub is a point of contact for researchers with questions about the 3Rs – the three foundational principles of animal experimentation to which the ETH is committed: Replace, Reduce and Refine. The 3R Hub raises awareness among researchers and the public about compassionate animal research.

To promote the development and implementation of new methods for refining, reducing or even replacing animal experiments (known as the 3Rs), ETH Zurich’s Vice President for Research launched the 3R Hub. He has also expanded the university’s Animal Welfare and 3R office. In this way, ETH is affirming its position that animal experiments are necessary in many areas of basic research.

Research and innovation are needed to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges, which disproportionately affect those living in low-income countries. ETH4D’s Research Challenges and Pilot Grants fund ETH researchers to develop solutions for those living on $10 a day or less. Apply by 21 April.

The call 2025–2026 of the "Germaine de Staël" programme for bilateral research cooperation between Switzerland and France has been launched. Application deadline is 15 May 2024.

New guidelines for policy engagement and science-based policy advice have been in force at ETH Zurich since February. They offer guidance for ETH members wishing to participate in the dialogue between science and policy. Benedikt Knüsel, Head of the Science-Policy Interface unit, explains the key issues in this obvious field of tension.

The Executive Board issued the 2024 regulations for the new Master's degree programme in Space Systems and the continuing education programme Master of Advanced Studies ETH in AI and Digital Technology (MAS ETH AID). It also simplified the financial planning of the Central Administrative Units. In addition, new guidelines for engagement at the science-policy interface and for the provision of political advice have been in effect at ETH Zurich since 1 February.

Rebecca Hochreutener und Dr. Marian Hertrich (BedrettoLab für Geowissenschaften und Geoenergien, D-​ERDW) im vierten Interview der Reihe zu Modellen von Data Stewardship an der ETH Zürich.

The new rules of procedure to address scientific misconduct enter into effect on 1 June 2024 at ETH Zurich. What has changed and why a revision was necessary.

Over the last months, laboratories at ETH had the opportunity to participate in the GreenLabs pilot and drive sustainability efforts in their lab practices. End of January 2024, the first certification ceremony of the pilot took place, awarding 19 labs for their progress. ETH GreenLabs will be further rolled out with the goal to review all labs at ETH.

In nur 15 Minuten: Holen Sie sich nützliche Tools und Themen, die Sie bei Ihrer täglichen Forschungsarbeit unterstützen – in den Coffee Lectures der ETH-Bibliothek.

Get yourself and your research project in shape with our research data management workshop programme. You can now register for the Spring Semester 2024 workshops.

In mid-December, climate researchers from ETH gathered in the CHN building for the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Although the event took place in the United States, there was no shortage of stimulating conversations and debates, nor informal exchanges over coffee.

Due to an acute lack of space in the centre, the Department of Earth Sciences was looking for new storage space. Together with the Campus Services storage team, a former army ammunition depot has now been converted. Over thirty Euro pallets are already stored in the new high racks.

From 2024, the ETH Library will cover the costs of publications in more journals, including Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

This ETH Summer School furnishes early-career scientists with a comprehensive understanding of research data management. Following a practice-oriented approach, they learn the basics and the most important tools.

Make your research easy to understand, present your findings in a compelling way and convey a confident image to the media: the Communication Academy course programme for the Spring 2024 Semester is now online.

Under the motto “My Kind of Data”, the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services will be celebrating their love of data from 12 to 16 February 2024 and jointly providing an insight into research data management.

Open, diverse and inclusive science thrives on the involvement of the public and citizen participation - in other words, on Citizen Science. In order to promote such participatory research, Citizen Science Zurich awards Seed Grants once a year for the development or implementation of Citizen Science projects. ETH researchers can currently apply for funding.

The national negotiations between swissuniversities and Elsevier and also with Taylor & Francis did not lead to an agreement by mid-December 2023. The ETH Library, together with the other universities affected, is preparing for a situation without a contract from January 2024.

In collaboration between the ETH Library and EPFL, the third lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) will take place in Lausanne on 7 February 2024. Dr Elizabeth Gadd speaks about the challenges of research assessment in the context of open science.

Special orders, such as the request from ETH researcher Vasily Sitnikov to deliver a sponge-shaped concrete block to the Old Botanical Garden, are the daily business of the Campus Services department's transport team.

The call for proposal of the Humanitarian Action Challenges is now open. It supports collaborative research with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to develop solutions for humanitarian action.

ETH Zurich members are invited to participate in the conference “AI For Energy & Sustainable Manufacturing” on 9 November 2023 at ETH Zurich. The full-day event will bring together researchers, innovators, industrial decision-makers and data scientists to meet and discuss.

This conversation between PD Dr Jochen Klumpp (IT Services Group (ISG), D-HEST) and Dr Julian Dederke (ETH Library) is the third instalment in a series of interviews explaining the work of data stewards within the Data Stewardship Network and showcasing various data stewardship models at ETH Zurich.

Over 2,000 students, researchers, entrepreneurs and industry representatives discussed the latest trends in artificial intelligence at the AI+X Summit 2023. Popular topics included the influence of generative AI, AI legislation, AI in medicine and trustworthy AI.

Research thrives on the open exchange of knowledge – and of data that make knowledge possible in the first place. In order to support this exchange of data, the ETH Domain’s Open Research Data Program to open up research data has been in place since the beginning of 2022. Researchers can now once again apply for funding.

Mandy Boontanrart's research is meant to reach those who need it most. With the help of Barbara Hirschmann from the ETH Library, she is one step further.

Christian Wolfrum has been Vice President for Research at ETH Zurich since the beginning of the year. What are the next challenges for research and how does he propose to tackle them?

How can Anne Abels preserve her research data for researchers even after her doctorate at ETH Zurich? Thanks to Mohamed El-Saad from the ETH Library, she found a good way.

When the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funds a project, it covers the fees for any resulting gold open-access publications. Researchers from ETH Zurich use the SNSF’s ChronosHub platform to settle these fees.

The fire protection courses of the SSHE teach all interested ETH members how fires can be prevented and how to react correctly in case of fire. There are still free places for the upcoming courses.

Yurena Seguí Femenias wants to stay up to date with scientific developments even after her doctorate at ETH Zurich. Together with David Johann from the ETH Library, she has found a solution.

In the second semester of 2023, you can expect diverse topics such as writing with AI-based tools, the visualisation of research data or "Rock your Master's" – a new event especially for Master's students.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

The event will take place on 11 October 2023 in collaboration with the CHESS. Prof. Emanuel Kulczycki will explore how ontological understanding of science influences what we count and how we interpret it.

Make your research easy to understand, present your findings in a compelling way and convey a confident image to the media: the Communication Academy course programme for the Fall 2023 Semester is now online.

The following interview between Dr Giuliana Turi (ETH Sustainability, Office of the President) and Dr Julian Dederke (ETH Library) is the second in a series of interviews that take a closer look at the work of active data stewards in the Data Stewardship Network.

The swiss cooperation platforms receive Best of Swiss Web Award 2023

The ETH Library is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its blog, ETHeritage. To mark the occasion, a public panel discussion on the topic of trends and future, titled “Trends und Zukunft”, will be held in the ETH Zurich main building on Tuesday, 13 June at 5.00 p.m. Those interested in attending can do so either in person or online.

Join the Image Archive’s very first Wikipedia writing workshop! It will take place online on Saturday, 03 June 2023, and the topic will be ETH portraits.

Between 17.15 and 18.45 on 16 May 2023, doctoral students will be given a compact overview of the ETH Library services relevant for their doctoral thesis.

Plagiarism detection software is now the responsibility of the ETH Library. We are doing our best to make a comparable software available to you as soon as possible.

Researchers conducting neuroscientific animal experiments at ETH Zurich can now practice their handlings on 3D-​printed models. This benefits animal welfare.  

The first lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) will take place on 7 June 2023. Dr Stefanie Haustein will be giving an overview of the landscape of scientometrics and its recent developments.

Will AI tools like ChatGPT fundamentally change the way we approach scientific texts? We will be discussing this question at the ETH Library’s 17:15 Colloquium on 20 April 2023.

The discussion between Professor Elizabeth Tilley, Lars Schöbitz (both D-MAVT, Global Health Engineering) and Dr Julian Dederke (ETH Library) is the first in a series highlighting the work of a pilot group of data stewards who are active in the Data Stewardship Network.

Search standards on a new platform and view now also the IEC standards for electrical engineering, electronics and information technology.

With Connected Papers, the ETH Library is presenting a new search tool for use by researchers at ETH Zurich. It provides a visual, exploratory approach to the search for scientific articles.

Is it really possible to measure research performance and the influence of scientific work objectively? The “Swiss Year of Scientometrics” (SYoS) shines a light on the limits and possibilities for scientometrics.

How do you approach the digital transformation of a university? At the 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library, Dr Susanne Schumacher will show how this is being done at Zurich University of the Arts.

e-rara puts digitized prints at your fingertips – now with new functions and navigation options.

Human and machine: humanoid “educational robots” open up new pathways in education. In the 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library on 23 February 2023, we explain how they can be used in research and practice.

Since October 2022, biochemist Dorota Pfizenmaier and chemical engineer Charles Ledoux have been Vice-President and President of the Academic Association of Scientific Staff at ETH Zurich (AVETH). In an interview with Internal news they describe what it was like coming to ETH Zurich during the lockdown and which university policy challenges they intend to address.

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.

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).

Time is precious. This is why we host the Coffee Lectures event. Within the 15-minute timeframe, you receive the information on relevant tools and topics that you need for your academic work.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

Whether for the management of research data, reproducible data analysis or the development of code scripts – the Data Stewardship Network opens up new opportunities for sharing data.

Access to the comprehensive primary sources in the Wiley Digital Archives will provide new insights, especially for those interested in environmental sciences and scientific research.

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.

Early career scientists receive an extensive overview on Research Data Management, its principles, its practical implications and on useful tools. Register now!

Make your research easy to understand, present your findings in a compelling way and convey a confident image to the media: the Communication Academy course programme for the Spring 2023 Semester is now online.

Just under four years after the launch of AstroRara, users can now discover new content and a revamped design.

In contrast to other ETH Zurich employees, it is still unclear for doctoral students whether and when they will receive a cost-of-living adjustment and how this will be financed. The Executive Board is unhappy with this situation. A working group will seek a solution in early 2023.

Full access to Oxford University Press journals.

Switzerland currently has only limited access to Horizon Europe, the world’s largest funding programme for research and innovation. Here’s why this will become problematic for Switzerland as a centre of research and innovation in the long term.

Take part in our online course on 24 November 2022 and receive important basics about open-access publishing.

The letters exchanged by Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch are among the most spectacular documents in the history of literature – and they are now being published as a book. At the Max Frisch Archive, we are hosting an archive discussion and putting original letters on display for the first time.

You can now order more easily and get a better overview of your loans.

Artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning is one of the most important technological trends of recent years. Find out what opportunities and risks it has at the 17:15 colloquium by the ETH Library on November 24, 2022.

Take advantage of the comprehensive access to podcasts about the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

The third call for proposal of the Humanitarian Action Challenges is now open. It supports collaborative research with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to develop solutions for humanitarian action!

Limited ordering options 12–13 November 2022.

Register by 11 November 2022 for this year's IATUL Fall Seminar.

Independent publishing: SciPost gives ETH Zurich researchers an additional way of publishing their research results as open-​​access articles without relying on commercial providers.

Orders are subject to restrictions from 17.00 to 19.00.

In the event series of the ETH Library in October and November 2022, you can get input on tools and topics that support your academic work in a short and crisp form.

ETH Zurich's chair for Learning Sciences and Higher Education strives for a more powerful learning environment with innovation and creativity behind it. Learn more at the 17:15 Colloquium on 27 October 2022.

Between 17.15 and 18.45 on 08 November 2022, doctoral students will be given a compact overview of the ETH Library services relevant for their doctoral thesis.

Researchers at ETH Zurich are expected to comply to the new Guidelines for Research Data Management. Learn how the Scientific IT Services can support you.

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Orders are subject to restrictions from 17.00 to 20.00.

You are now able to publish large amounts of research data in the Research Collection. Find out more about this new offer.

After some six years in their temporary location on the Hönggerberg campus, the Thomas Mann Archives have moved back to the city centre.

Get an insight into the work of the ETH AI Center at the 17:15 Colloquium of the ETH Library on Thursday, 29 September 2022. Adrian Notz, curator, will talk about questions and topics that are being researched at the Center.

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.

A new look for the Swiss manuscripts platform

How do you like the idea of gaining exciting, new insights into the world of architecture and urban design while boosting your language skills during a casual conversation? Our Language & Architecture Coffee Breaks may be just the thing for you!

The semi-annual deadline for applications for project funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is approaching (01 October 2022).

Analysing text reuse is a task that is of particular relevance to architectural history. The platform Graph automates this process by applying large-scale textual processing for detecting similar text passages to a large corpus of digitised books.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

Researchers at ETH Zurich are required to employ good practice in managing research data. Learn how the ETH Library supports you in doing so.

Cite Them Right helps you with referencing in your academic work. Thanks to this online referencing tool, you can expand your knowledge on how to cite correctly and about plagiarism.

A new feature at E-​Periodica enables the recognition and networked depiction of individuals who are mentioned together in journal content.

Experiencing a different academic culture can open up new perspectives on research and on life. This was the experience of three ETH doctoral students who were awarded an ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowship for a six months stay abroad. ETH doctoral students may apply again by 1 September 2022.

From 13 to 15 December 2022, the international event will be held by the ETH Library under the title "Breaking new ground: scholarly communication and libraries".

Save the date: join us on 30 August 2022 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Switzerland’s largest map collection with a book launch.

Discover the new full-text additions from various specialist fields on E-Periodica, the ETH Library’s online platform for digitised Swiss periodicals.

Make your research easy to understand, present your findings in a compelling way and convey a confident image to the media: the Communication Academy course programme for the Autumn 2022 semester is now online.

The ETH Library ETHorama platform was given a fresh new design on 01 June 2022 and now offers even more exploration options.