Well chosen theme! We are excited to participate in the #OAWeek 2026!

Spice up your after lunch coffee with this lecture today!

Upcoming #coffeelecture! Renke Siems will talk about #science #tracking: Monetizing #personal #data does not stop at #research. This opens the door for exploitation and information leakage. Tue, 05 May, 13:30 - 14:00, online via Teams Learn more here: www.lib4ri.ch/node/785

Are you just kicking off your #PhD or looking to bring your knowledge up to date? Then sign up today for the modules of your choice in our Lib4RI training series: Essential Skills for Today’s Researchers! Find more information on the individual modules here: www.lib4ri.ch/training-ser...

☕Coffee lecture time! @jeroenson.bsky.social will show how #OpenScience is under geopolitical pressure today - and how we can make it more resilient! Join online via teams: www.lib4ri.ch/node/802 🗓️07 April ⏰13:30 - 14:00

🛠️ We just launched our new Tools page 🛠️ Research involves a lot of moving parts, and finding the right tools shouldn't be one of the hard ones. Our new Tools page brings together resources for every stage of the research cycle, from discovery and #RDM to #OApublishing. Go to: www.lib4ri.ch/tools

One week left to apply! ⏰

🌿 A new season, a new chance to grow your research skills. 🌿 Lib4RI's Essential Skills for Today's Researchers is back for 2026! We've got seven practical, hands-on modules to help PhD students and researchers across Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL level up. Learn more: www.lib4ri.ch/training-ser...

Pondering about your next #career steps after #MSc, #PhD or #postdoc? Check out our #datacareer event on 10 March! Register here: www.lib4ri.ch/node/800

Don't miss our #coffeelecture today! **No deal, no problem?** - Strategies for reaching negotiation goals with scholarly publishers #ScholarlyPublishing comes at a cost - learn today, how prices are made and why #Swiss #AcademicLibraries are standing united! teams.microsoft.com/meet/3583531...

New DORA is here! 🥂 Come celebrate today Monday, 2 March at 17:00 at Eawag/Empa, the launch of new features and updates to DORA, the institutional publications repository, and a toast to a fresh look. @eawag.bsky.social @empa-materials.bsky.social

Happy to share the #SOAD Spring event: The @barcelonadori.bsky.social in #Switzerland! Meet representatives of the first three Swiss signatories & learn about their motivation to sign and the measures planned and implemented! 🗓️11 March, 15:30 - 17:00 💻 Free & online via Zoom 📝Register via soad.ch

📣Exiting opportunity! 📣 Due to retirement, we are looking for a new head of the joint #Library for the Research Institutes within the #ETHDomain. Learn more about the position, the library and the team on our website www.lib4ri.ch! Spread the word among interested peers!

We just released our contributions for the #LoveDataWeek 2026! Our online coffee lectures go all around #reproducibility and smooth planning to accelarate your #research. Find our programme here: www.lib4ri.ch/love-data-we... And see all Swiss contributions here: www.researchdatasupport.ch/lovedata

🥳 The ETH Domain Data Management Campus is proud to announce the launch of its #openlearning modules and #educationalresources for #researchdatamanagement. 📝 To celebrate our launch, join us for the official online presentation this Thursday! Learn more & register: www.lib4ri.ch/data-managem...

#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