#OpenScience, accessible to all, is crucial for scientific progress and for unrestricted and equal access to knowledge. Many thanks @eawag.bsky.social for your commitment!

Our last newsletter for this year come with breaking news on #scholarlypublishing: as no mutually acceptable agreement with Springer Nature could be reached, Swiss libraries are preparing for a no-contract situation on 2026. Read our full newsletter here: www.lib4ri.ch/lib4ri-updat...

#OpenAccess to scientific publications has become the norm. From 2027, the SNSF will be limiting its OA funding. Already in autumn 2026, researchers will be able to publish their articles free of charge on Open Research Europe (diamond open access). ➡️ sohub.io/7nru

💎 Join the online workshop on sustainable funding for Diamond OA journals #CoDOA: 📅 Jan 16, 09:00-10:30 CET Help shape the future of equitable scholarly publishing ✨ Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/031daf... #OpenScience #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess

🚫 Preparations for a no-deal with Sage in 2026 Negotiations between the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries and Sage Publishing for a new Read & Publish agreement have not yet concluded. Preparations are underway for a no-deal situation from 1 Jan 2026. Read more: www.lib4ri.ch/sage-read-pu...

How could #datastewards deal #AIbots? #CCSignals might show a way towards a new social contract in the era of #AI. Get a brief intro and share your thoughts in our #coffeelecture on 2 Dec, 13:300 - 14:00, online via Zoom: www.lib4ri.ch/coffee-lectu...

🚀 Launching the new Lib4RI Writing Lab! 🚀 The writing is a three-part series designed to build writing skills, confidence, and momentum by providing short intros to scientific reading, writing and reviewing, and work time. Take one or all three! More information here: www.lib4ri.ch/writing-lab

☕Missed our #CoffeeLecture on #CoARA and alternative #ResearchAssessment? Find the recording and slides on our website: www.lib4ri.ch/coffee-lectu... Next: No Deal, No Problem? - Strategies for Reaching Negotiation Goals with Scholarly Publishers. 02 December, 13:30 www.lib4ri.ch/coffee-lectu...

📣We're thrilled to launch the WSL-Eawag Biodiversity Center, a joint initiative to foster biodiversity research & outreach at @eawag.bsky.social & @wslresearch.bsky.social. The Center is all about connecting people, sharing ideas, & building collaborations. biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/news/wsl-...

#Researchers at @psich.bsky.social , this is your call! #ScienceCommunication #physics

‼️ACS Open Access Quota for 2025 now exhausted‼️Free of charge OA publishing will not be possible in 2025. #GreenOA is still possible. www.lib4ri.ch/acs-open-acc... Negotiations for 2026 are ongoing. Curious about the background? Join our coffee lecture on 2 Dec! www.lib4ri.ch/coffee-lectu...

It takes practice to master a skill - including #scientificwriting. Why not having fun on the practice at the same time? The Journal of Imaginary Research is taking submissions until 5 December. Get inspiration - and a good laugh - from earlier issues!

Calling all colleagues at Swiss higher education institutions! How do you use data, code and software? Participate in the 2025 National Research Data Management Survey Take the survey: library-survey.epfl.ch/c/4ri-rdm-su... Learn more: www.lib4ri.ch/take-part-na...

A #sneakpreview of our material for #OAWEEKCH25! Meet us in your institute and make sure to attend David Rosenthal's keynote "AI & copyright: friends or foes?" All details here: www.lib4ri.ch/OAweek2025 @psich.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @eawag.bsky.social @empa-materials.bsky.social

📝Mark your calendar for #OAWEEKCH25, 20-26 Oct! Meet us at our information booths in your institute and make sure to join the keynote on 22 Oct: AI & Copyright - friends or foes? www.lib4ri.ch/OAweek2025 @eawag.bsky.social @empa-materials.bsky.social @psich.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social

We are more than proud to be part of #CoDOA-CH right from the start. Together with #Swiss #HEIs, SLSP and further, the goal is to push true #openaccess with a sustainable #funding scheme for #DiamondOpenAccess in #Switzerland. All #Scientists are welcome join today: codoa.ch/news/#id=94

🚀 New eLearning launch: Data Management Campus 🚀 The #DataManagementCampus launched its first set of #eLearning modules to help you with your #RDM - covering #organizing, #versioning and #publishing of #researchdata Find this and more here: open-research-data-portal.ch/training/

We were at the first Swiss Open Academic Data (SOAD) day! Our presentation evaluated differences between our institutional repository DORA and #OpenAlex. One conclusion for us: #Collaboration is the key! Find our and more presentations here: zenodo.org/communities/...

🍂 We are back with our training series! All students, researches and staff at @eawag.bsky.social , @empa-materials.bsky.social , @psich.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social can book any of the 11 modules. Git? AI in research? Streamline your search? We got you covered: www.lib4ri.ch/trainings

❄️ 65 Years of Avalanche Science – Now Openly Accessible ❄️ Lib4RI has digitised 700+ historical #snow and #avalanche reports from @slfdavos.bsky.social , covering 1938–2005. This collection preserves valuable data and supports future advances in mountain safety! www.lib4ri.ch/65-years-sno...

📚 Looking for a student job? We're hiring a Student Assistant (20–40%) to support metadata, publications, and digitization tasks ✅ Flexible workload ✅ International environment ✅ Great experience in information management Interested? Apply now: www.lib4ri.ch/hiring-stude...

Off on holiday? Don’t forget a good read! Swing by our Swap Library – grab a book, leave a book, or just see what treasure you find. Novels, travel guide, nonfiction & more – all free to take & share!

Happy August 1st from the library! We're raising a toast to Swiss science — past and present. These gems from a 1911 hydrobiology course are part fieldwork, part alpine postcard. Beer after sampling? Timeless. Fieldwork in a suit? Thankfully, not.

Last week, we made upgrades to the @eawag.bsky.social location of Lib4RI! 🖥️ Office space for our new team members 🚶More open user workspace 📖 Created new user reading lounge We also have some additional upgrades planned for the new user space in the coming months. Wishes? Ideas? Contact us!

Don't forget to sign up for the RDM MOOCathon! 🎯 Perfect for: ✔️ Researchers passionate about open science ✔️ All with real RDM experience to share ✔️ Those curious about instructional design Turn your experience into training materials to empower others! #OpenScience #RDM #OpenEducation #OER

Two exciting events on one day! This talk will take place right after the first Swiss Open Academic Data #SOAD meeting. If you are interested in #bibliometrics and #scientometrics, take your chance and join in with both: soad.ch/program-and-...

The library teams had a great time with the #biketowork #challenge2025! Altogether, we cycled more than 4,300km - roughly the distance from Zürich to Dakar, Senegal. Although the challenge is over - we keep on rolling! For the final week, we embraced the theme: "fake it till you make it" - enjoy!

We are looking forward to inspiring days at #LIBER2025 and hope to inspire people with our contriubution 'Integrating Open Access Information into the Library Discovery System'! Missed the workshop? Find our slides here: www.lib4ri.ch/sites/defaul...

🔓 swissuniversities has signed a new Open Access agreement with Wiley through 2027. 🔓 Our researchers can now publish Open Access in all Wiley journals, incl. full Open Access journals. @wslresearch.bsky.social @eawag.bsky.social @psich.bsky.social Read more: www.lib4ri.ch/new-open-acc...

Traditional peer review is anonymous and secretive. Looking for alternatives? Try PubPeer — open, transparent post-publication peer review. Anyone can comment, authors can respond. Don’t miss the browser plugin for instant access while reading papers.

Scientific publishing often offers too little value for money? IEEE: Hold my beer! irony end The creativity of publishers knows no end when it comes to publication charges. bibliotheek.ehb.be:2580/repository-l...

This week, our cycling librarians shared the favorite part of their commute. As a research library, we actually do have scientific support that cycling as a team is beneficial. Check out this study: "Surprises in Cycling Aerodynamics" www.dora.lib4ri.ch/empa/islando...

🚲 The library is pedalling into bike-to-work month at our main library location at @eawag.bsky.social . We're planning on sharing our bike adventure all month, so join us for the ride! Kicking off with the bikes that get us to work every day.

Do you have questions about AI in scientific publishing? Eawag is hosting Maggie Mills to talk about how AI tools are used in the editorial process, as well as the ethics of using AI as an author and/or peer reviewer. Learn more here: www.lib4ri.ch/talk-artific...

In August 2020, Konrad "Koni" Steffen tragically disappeared on the ice of Greenland.💔 A documentary at Kino Frame in Zürich offers an intimate tribute to Koni, revealing the brilliant scientist and the warm, thoughtful human being. 👉 frame.ch/de/movies/334 @wslresearch.bsky.social

We are #hiring! Join our team as #DataSteward / #DataManager and engage in expanding our #RDM services in the #ETH domain for @eawag.bsky.social, @psich.bsky.social, Empa and @wslresearch.bsky.social. Find more info and the link to the full description below 👇

#BreakingNews: Negotiations between Wiley and swissuniversities were discontinued on 31 March. Our #newsletter sums up implications and recommendations for our users at @eawag.bsky.social, Empa, @psich.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social www.lib4ri.ch/lib4ri-updat...

Are you working with #metadata on research output and actively use open platforms as #OpenAlex, @openaire.bsky.social, @crossref.bsky.social or @orcid.org? Then don't miss the first workshop of #SOAD, the Swiss Open Academic Data community! #CallsforContributions is now open: soad.ch/call-for-con...

The deck has spoken. New cards have appeared. Will you accept today's challenge? Join us for Digital Clean-up Day to help reduce emissions and cleanse your digital space. We'll be here all week with new suggestions.

There are no wild cards here — just another step towards digital zen and reduced emissions! Join us for Digital Clean-up Day to reduce your digital clutter and help the environment. We'll be posting suggestions all week.

Pick a card — any card! Let's reduce our emissions and clean up our digital space. Join us for Digital Clean-up Day! We'll be posting our suggestions all week.

Digital Clean-up Day is this week! All that junk mail, your trash folder, and those useless apps aren't only cluttering your inbox and desktop, but they are also generating emissions. The library will be posting challenges every day this week to help clean up your digital space. Join in!

We are excited to announce our spring training series: Searching & Managing Scientific Information! The courses are available free of charge to all members of EAWAG, EMPA, WSL, and PSI. Sign up today! www.lib4ri.ch/searching-ma... @eawag.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @psich.bsky.social

EPFL Open Science invites you to "Open Research Data: Legal Limits and Design Options" with Prof. Dr. Florent Thouvenin. 📅 Date: March 17, 2025 📍 Where: Online ℹ️ Learn more: memento.epfl.ch/event/open-r... Do not miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of Open Research Data! 🚀

Did you miss our coffee lectures? No worries, we have the recordings online now: www.lib4ri.ch/update-love-...

On this #ValentinesDay coffee lecture of the #LoveDataWeek, we give you a brief introduction how version control with #GIT can make your #OpenScience life much easier. Join in at 13:00: www.lib4ri.ch/love-data-we... For a deeper dive, check the new training module www.lib4ri.ch/searching-ma...

For today's #LoveDataWeek coffee lecture, Elisabet Capón García (SDSC and @ethzurich.bsky.social) will introduce #Renku, an #OpenSource platform to empower #transparency, #collaboration, and #reusability for #ResearchData. Curious? Join in at 13:00 here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8686757814...

Today for the #LoveDataWeek coffee lectures: Stefanie Hauser will share insights and learnings from the introduction of #openBIS at Empa. Join in at 13:00 via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8686757814... Learn more about the lecture on our website: www.lib4ri.ch/love-data-we...

Next coffee lecture for #LoveDataWeekCH! Today with a quick dive into elegant publishing with #Quarto. Want to publish data, code and prose in only one go? This is for you! Join in at 13:00h via Zoom: www.lib4ri.ch/love-data-we... @eawag.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @psich.bsky.social

First day of the #LoveDataWeek25 #LoveDataWeekCH! We start with a coffee lecture on research data mangement #RDM within the ETH domain - and partical vocabulary beyond. Join in at 13:00! More info and Zoom link here: www.lib4ri.ch/love-data-we...