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The Journal für Psychoanalyse was established in 2003 and was only available in printed form until 2015. In 2016, the journal went Open Access in the framework of HOPE (see below). Since then, the journal has not only been available as an online version, but also as a print version. The decision to go online […]

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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. The prerequisite for this is an employment by the University of Zurich or affiliated hospitals of the corresponding author of the submitted article. The author must give the e-mail […]

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Scientists of the University of Zurich can now publish Open Access articles in journals by Elsevier and Karger free of charge. The prerequisite for this is an employment by the University of Zurich or affiliated hospitals of the corresponding author of the submitted article. The author must give the e-mail address of the UZH (or […]

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Since the end of 2019 there has been no contract with the publisher Springer Nature for access to its electronic journals. The termination was supported by all Swiss universities as part of the implementation of the national Open Access strategy. So far the publisher has not restricted access to the journals. In the meantime, negotiations […]

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The journal “Society – the Individual – Socialisation: Journal for Research on Socialisation” (GISo) represents an independent and interdisciplinary forum of scientific debate regarding courses, conditions, and results of socialisation processes. GISo provides space for the presentation and discussion of theoretical and conceptual positions, empirical findings, and challenges pertaining research methods in this thematic field. […]

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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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The Read&Publish offer for the UZH could be extended with the Karger publishing house for 2020. The offer includes free access to the Karger eJournal Collection for all medical disciplines from 1998 onwards. At the same time articles by authors from the UZH and University Hospitals* can be published free of charge in Karger journals […]

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The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, the Swiss National Science Foundation and swissuniversities are appealing to scientific publishers to make publications Open Access available in response to the corona crisis. This should also support research on COVID-19, as well as research, teaching and studies at universities, in view of the very limited services of libraries.

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swissuniversities and the Elsevier publishing house have signed a memorandum of understanding to conclude a Read&Publish contract, which will be valid retroactively from January 2020. It is already possible for all UZH authors to publish free of charge in Open Access in all Elsevier journals. Exceptions to this rule are journals from Cell Press, The […]

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In the summer of 2019, the University of Zurich appointed two Open Science Delegates to support and represent the university in all aspects of Open Science. Marc Thommen, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, specialises in Open Access – i.e. free access to publications –, and Mark Robinson, Professor of Statistical Genomics, specialises […]

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