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

Negotiations for a new Swiss agreement with the academic publisher Wiley were discontinued on 31 March. As a consequence, Wiley has blocked access to 2025 journal issues, and researchers in Switzerland can no longer publish Open Access within the read & publish agreement. Please find some background information as well as recommended actions for the researchers of the 4RIs below.

Eawag is hosting a presentation by Maggie Mills entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Publishing: Perspective from the Editorial Team of Environmental Science & Technology” Join onsite in Forum Chriesbach, Dübendorf, or online.

Every year, on the third Saturday in March, it's time to declutter - not your closet, but your digital life! Digital Cleanup Day, happening this year on March 15, is a global initiative that encourages everyone to tidy up their digital spaces in the name of sustainability. Lib4RI is participating again this year - join us and take a look at your digital waste!

Green, Gold, now Diamond - the evolution of Open Access publishing. Diamond Open Access is a model of scholarly publication that charges no fees to authors, readers, or their institutions. Diamond Open Access journals are owned and controlled by the scholarly communities.

Do you work in the areas of research data management, data stewardship, and/or open science? Are you responsible for managing data in line with FAIR principles? If so, we invite you to join the ETH Domain Data Stewardship Network (DSN).

Spring is at our doorsteps and so is our biannual training series «Searching & Managing Scientific Information». All modules can be booked individually and are open to all members of the four research institutes. Make sure to have a look at the new modules «Make Your Life Easier With Git» and «AI in Research & Scientific Writing».