News

The Lib4RI team wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas, relaxing holidays, and a good start into the new year!

We are pleased to offer you access to Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.

CERN has today confirmed that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start on 1 January 2014.

Since beginning of November, the specialist portal for maps from libraries and archives in Switzerland Kartenportal.CH comes in a new look. Kartenportal.CH pools the information necessary for map searches in one place.

Are you familiar with the synthesis and colloquium lectures of Morgan & Claypool? Organized by series, they offer valuable entry points into various topics from bio science, computer science and informatics, engineering, mathematics and statistics, and more….

Effective immediately and available until the end of 2013, we are pleased to offer trial access to the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS) and to RxnFinder.

We are happy to announce our introductory course for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 federal research institutes.

Research funded by the public should be publicly accessible as far as possible. The Swiss National Science Foundation‎ (SNSF) increases its efforts to reach this goal and now financially supports the gold path to Open Access, i.e. publishing in pure Open Access (OA) journals.

In response to popular demand, Springer now allows users to download all chapters of an e-book in one go. With the new functionality, you can either download all chapters of Springer e-books at once or continue to select individual chapters on SpringerLink. The chapter level and full book PDF is available without restrictions (no DRM). This new functionality is most welcomed and makes using these e-books more comfortable.

The transfer of articles to the File Cabinet and subsequent download from the database IEEE Xplore Digital Library is no longer available. This applies to articles older than 2 years in IEEE journals, IEEE proceedings, and articles published in journals from several other publishers in IEEE Xplore. Users at Eawag, Empa, WSL and PSI still have unlimited access to current year and the last two years of IEEE journal articles via this database.

We are pleased to offer you online access to 2 new digital resources: ASM Handbooks and Britannica Image Quest.

Refworks has solved recent access problems to departmental and author publication lists. All customized links are working again. They can be found on our website (www.lib4ri.ch > Institutional Bibliography).

Until mid-July we offer trial access to the Euclid Prime e-journals collection as well as to one of the world’s leading mathematical journal, the Duke Mathematical Journal. Hereby you gain access to 38 journals in the field of mathematics and statistics, e.g. several journals in the field of applied mathematics.

With Library Press Display we offer you a 2-month trial access to more than 2,260 international, national and regional newspapers and magazines from all over the world. Monitor current incidents from your interest fields to stay up-to-date by setting up RSS feeds. The article archive covers the last 90 days. Also check out the instant translation of articles in up to 12 languages.

Starting on the 1st of May you can access the e-book collections on a trial basis for two months. Check them out and send your feedback to @email.

Our Newsletter «Lib4RI-Update #07» is out! Get a print copy at the library or read the online version.

As part of our commitment towards researchers at Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL, we are happy to announce this introductory course for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 research institutes.

The library system IDS UZH (Information Network of the University of Zurich) will be integrated into the NEBIS library system. For this reason, the someNEBIS services won’t be available from 27 March, 9pm – 3 April 2013, 7am.

The RSC’s (Royal Society of Chemistry) Gold for Gold initiative enables researchers to publish Open Access articles in any RSC journal without paying the normal Open Access publication fee (between £1’000 and £2’500). As a subscribing institution to RSC Gold, the library Lib4RI has received 12 vouchers that let researchers at Eawag, Empa, WSL & PSI publish their paper in an RSC journal as an Open Access article at no charge.

With the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities by the directorates of Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL, all four research institutes in the ETH Domain now support the open access idea. The PSI already signed the Berlin Declaration back in 2006. Recently, the directorates of Eawag, Empa and WSL joined the growing rank of signatories. The Berlin Declaration has been signed by the leaders of more than 400 research institutions and funding agencies worldwide, including the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

New e-journals subscribed in 2013.

The new year brings several new, expanded, and updated e-book collections for all members of Eawag, Empa, PSI, and WSL.

We have licensed several new databases and reference works for our users at Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL.

Open Access refers to providing free online access to research articles. Last Monday, researchers at Empa were invited to discuss the challenges and opportunities of Open Access publishing. Gian-Luca Bona gave an introduction to the seminar Open Access publishing: How should Empa-researchers respond?. He also announced the recent signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. As a signatory, Empa encourages its researchers to publish Open Access.

Since the first of January, we offer the Lib4RI Standards Portal as a central starting point for searching for and finding standards and technical guidelines. The Lib4RI Standards Portal includes bibliographic information for more than 1.5 million standards and technical guidelines. This does away with the previous, sometimes tedious search across several sources and databases.