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After major renovations, Lib4RI WSL Birmensdorf was reopened yesterday. Among other things, the new space offers attractive working spaces, booths for calls, a coffee machine and lockers. Come by and see for yourself!

The Research Data Management Summer School 2024 at ETH Zurich still has some open spots. Take this great opportunity to learn more about this crucial topic!

Lib4RI has expanded its Open Access publishing portfolio by entering into a new transformative Read and Publish agreement with the American Physical Society (APS). Starting in April, corresponding authors affiliated with the 4RIs no longer have to pay a fee for publishing Open Access in the APS hybrid journals.

The negotiations between swissuniversities and Elsevier for a new Read & Publish agreement are continuing. A decision is expected in the next few weeks.

International Digital Cleanup Day is this Saturday. Join us in cleaning up our digital lives, just as we clean up our physical environment.

Our information page about LLMs, AI tools and scientific writing has been updated and expanded into a collection of FAQs. The page tries to give an overview of the most prevalent questions in the form of a living document.

As the use of AI tools in research is becoming more commonplace, practical and safety consideration are becoming more pressing as well. In the third part of our "AI tools & LLMs" lecture series on Tuesday, 26 March, Sandra Marmy-Brändli will talk to us about "Potential copyright issues when using AI tools in research".

Spring 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 April to June 2024, we offer eight individually bookable modules, this time also including a new module 4b on literature management with Zotero.

Join our team! We are looking for looking for an enthusiastic person to lead our Publication Services team at Lib4RI. The deadline has been extended until 7 April 2024.

The recordings of the coffee lectures from Love Data Week 2024 are now available within the four Research Institutes!

A new national license agreement has been reached with Taylor & Francis, ensuring continued access to their journal portfolio and enabling Open Access (OA) publishing for researchers affiliated with the 4RIs.

As a service to our researchers, we reviewed publications in the institutional repository DORA which are published in journals that have an impact factor, but are not indexed in Web of Science. A total of 166 published articles were missing and are now reported for addition in Web of Science.

We are delighted to announce the new library subscriptions and Read & Publish agreements for the year 2024. As in previous years, our decision-making process was guided by an extensive data analysis to ensure we provide access to the most essential resources. However, due to budget constraints impacting the four research institutes, we had to raise the bar higher than before, resulting in more cancellations than usual.

Let data be your valentine! With the annual Love Data Week we celebrate the beauty of data together with research institutes all over the world. During the week from 12.-16.2.2024 Lib4RI contributes daily Coffee Lectures to the Swiss program.