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With Silke Fürst’s research article “In the service of good journalism and audience interests? How audience metrics affect news quality”, the 150,000th entry was received on ZORA in February 2021. Silke Fürst has been a research assistant at the Institute of Communication Studies and Media Research (IKMZ) at UZH since November 2019 and is working […]

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Are you one of those researchers who have to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) for the upcoming SNSF project funding deadline? For most researchers this task will be new, so we compiled the most important information, links and templates on our website. Our services include reviewing Data Management Plans, so if you would like […]

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The majority of the publications for the year 2020 have already been submitted to ZORA – thank you for that! As every year, you can submit the last missing publications for 2020 in ZORA until February 15, 2021. For all publications entered by this deadline, we will guarantee that they will actually appear in the […]

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ZORA comes with two different searches: a “Simple Search”, which is integrated on all pages and searches across all metadata and full texts, and an “Advanced Search”, which can be used to filter out individual metadata as search criteria. Both lead to a list of results with citation details, Open Access status and, if applicable, […]

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Scientists of the University of Zurich can now publish Open Access articles free of charge in the journals of the publishers Cambridge University Press, SAGE and Taylor & Francis. The offer is made possible through the conclusion of Read&Publish contracts, which, in addition to the option of Open Access publication, also ensure continued reading rights […]

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Openstax offers free access to english textbooks and learning environments including exercises. The ebooks can be downloaded as PDFs or used online. Logged in users can create highlights and annotations. We particularly recommend the following ebooks: Chemistry 2e Physics Vol. 1 (mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves) Physics Vol. 2 (thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism) Physics Vol. […]

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Last August, the Graduate Campus, in collaboration with the Main Library, hosted the Summer School “Yes, we’re open” on Open Science. As a follow-up to this, a virtual workshop on “The Legal Aspects of Open Science” will be held, led by CCdigitallaw. Topics such as copyright, Creative Commons licenses and data protection will be covered […]

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Since 1 July 2020, scientists at the University of Zurich are able to publish Open Access articles free of charge in journals published by Springer Nature. This agreement covers the article processing charges (APCs) for a fixed number of articles published in hybrid journals per year. This number has now been reached for 2020. Until […]

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The fees for Open Access articles vary greatly depending on the publisher and the journal. The international OpenAPC initiative pursues the goal of making the costs paid by universities and research funding bodies transparently accessible. Interested institutions can submit lists containing paid Article Processing Charges to OpenAPC. OpenAPC stores and publishes the data ordered per […]

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Cogitatio is a Portuguese Open Access publisher founded in 2014. The portfolio of the publishing house includes four Open Access journals in the field of social sciences as well as interdisciplinary sciences.  Researchers at the UZH can publish at no cost in the journals of this publishing house until 2022. It is important to include […]

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