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  At the Burghölzli At the beginning of the 20th century, the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic was the scene of developments in psychiatry that were of worldwide importance. Eugen Bleuler was director of the Burghölzli and an open mind. He took up ideas of psychoanalysis early on and was in close contact with Sigmund Freud, whom […]

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The former library of the Department of Geography was integrated into the Main Library (HBZ) in September 2018. The books and journals listed in the Rechercheportal are now located at HBZ – Science (Y15) on floor J. The old holdings, which are not yet listed in the Rechercheportal, can be requested at naturwissenschaften@hbz.uzh.ch with the […]

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The «Psychoanalytische Seminar Zürich» goes one step further with its new issue in the “Journal für Psychoanalyse”. Matching the title of the new issue “Transmission and Mediality” (only in German), there is now a multimedia online version in addition to the print version. Thus the digital possibilities of an online journal are used and the […]

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  At the Cantonal hospital Theodor Billroth came to Zurich from Berlin in 1860 as a young surgeon. The medical faculty had taken considerable effort to appoint the ambitious student of the well-known Bernhard von Langenbeck. Billroth was only the second full professor of surgery in Zurich after Heinrich Locher-Zwingli, who was appointed at the […]

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The beginnings of the medical journal The first scientific journals with medical content were published in the 17th century. Preconditions were created with the invention of the newspaper and the flourishing of experimental science in the Enlightenment. The tradition of the scholarly exchange of letters was transferred to scientific journals, which were printed for the […]

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Not that long ago, journals were only available in print and research was done with heavy bibliographies. The Main Library – Medicine Careum goes back in its own past and presents an exhibition on the history of the medical journal. Attractions include research questions to be solved with Index Medicus. Can you do a search […]

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On 4 September 2018, the Plan S was published in Brussels. The SNSF supports this plan, but has not yet signed it. The aim of this plan is that by 2020 all publicly funded publications must be published Open Access. 11 national research funding organisations have already signed this plan. More information see press release […]

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