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Martin Brändle (IT specialist for ZORA) and André Hoffmann (long-term archiving for ZORA) from the Main Library were recently interviewed by the ORCID team about the integration of ORCID in ZORA. In the blog post the motives as well as the technical, legal and organisational challenges are described. In addition, two important aspects of ORCID […]

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Under this motto our information campaign is currently running on all information screens of the UZH on the subject of ORCID. An ORCID iD distinguishes you from every other researcher and creates linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized. You can now tag your existing publications in ZORA. Find […]

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Researchers not only produce publications, but often start a project with a grant application before data is collected or experimentally produced and published. In addition, researchers are often invited to review data, applications and papers of others. All this work is part of the scientific output and should receive appropriate recognition. In the Internet, repositories […]

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The Open Researcher and Contributor iD (ORCID) is a standardized, internationally recognized, and persistent identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers and provides a mechanism for linking your research results and activities to your iD. Your publications can always be found unambiguously through any name variants, name changes or different spellings as well as institute […]

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The precise identification of a person and the assignment of his/her works are becoming increasingly important in the context of open science. There is a key problem: The Internet, repositories and databases try to link activities and results of a person based on the spelling of their name. But as individual as people are, their […]

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Starting today, the Main Library and the Central IT are offering researchers, faculties and institutes/clinics as well as libraries a new service: the Open Access Monitor. At https://www.oamonitor.uzh.ch, various thematically structured interactive dashboards allow complex evaluations related to Open Access. It is possible to customize the dashboards using various filters. For example, they can be […]

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If you are a regular PubMed user, a personal NCBI account is highly recommended. The National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI will change the login option to NCBI personal accounts beginning June 1, 2021. In the future, NCBI will no longer manage login credentials. Therefore, all existing NCBI accounts must be linked to a third-party […]

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Since May 2020, PubMed has been available via a new search interface on a completely new technology platform. The modern design enables more intuitive and easier navigation and is responsive to all end devices. In order to use all possibilities in PubMed, one should work with a personal account (one-time registration necessary). The National Center […]

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Dimensions offers an alternative way of searching for scientific information and is one of the largest multidisciplinary databases for scientific publications and research data. Compared to Web of Science and Scopus, Dimensions is characterized by the following properties:   It lists journal articles, preprints, books and book chapters. Many publication types such as working papers, […]

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Data should be open and accessible – to everyone and for all purposes. That is the definition of Open Data. More and more research funders are behind this, including the SNSF. On the one hand, researchers are faced with the relatively new task of making their data available for reuse. On the other hand, they […]

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