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

The workshop on Diamond Open Access sparked engaged discussions during the WSL Research Day on 24 June. This community-owned publishing model poses a promising alternative to commercial publishers and received great interest. Questions from the audience tackled impact, findability and funding.

This week, at the 54th annual LIBER Conference (4-6 July in Laussane), Lib4RI's head of library, Lothar Nunnenmacher, is presenting on our library Search Tool.

Earlier this week, swissuniversities and Wiley signed a new Open Access agreement, effective through 2027. Researchers affiliated with Eawag, Empa, PSI or WSL can publish their articles Open Access at no additional costs in all journals published by Wiley. Additionally, reading access covers the entire Wiley journal portfolio.

Clarivate has released their annual Journal Citation Report, covering more than 22'000 journals. This year's release also marks the 50th anniversary of the report.

For over a year, swissuniversities has been negotiating with the publisher Wiley to establish a new Open Access agreement. While these negotiations were discontinued in March 2025, they have now reached a milestone.

The call aims at creating and disseminating Open Educational Resources (OER) on research data management for researchers in the ETH Domain and beyond.