Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain: Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL

The 2025 national quota for Open Access publishing at no cost to authors under the American Chemical Society (ACS) Read & Publish agreement has now been fully utilised. This means that for the remainder of 2025, no further articles can be published Open Access at no costs in ACS journals through our institutional agreement.

How do you and your colleagues manage, share, and preserve your research data, code, and software? The National Research Data Management (RDM) Survey invites researchers across Switzerland to share their experiences and practices in data and code management.

For the Open Access Week 2025, David Rosenthal, a leading Swiss expert in Digital and Technology law, delivered a keynote on the legal perspective on AI and copyright. The recording and slides are now available.

From AI-driven video generation and data management to FAIR microscopy standards, LC-HRMS sharing, and digital transitions - explore how research data management is becoming smarter, standardised, and stronger together at the ETH Domain.

With Open Access (OA) increasingly becoming the standard in academic publishing, OA agreements provide an easy and convenient way for authors to publish their work OA. However, there are also downsides to these agreements: they concentrate market power among large publishers and some agreements impose restrictive conditions on authors for OA publishing.

Starting on 4. November, we launch our new coffee lecture series "Behind the bookshelves - publishing, politics and more...". Join us for 30-min sessions, every first Tuesday of the month, 13:30 - 14:00, online!