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You work at home and you need access to an article or E-book? With the browser extension Lean Library this may may even work via a Google search! How Lean Library works To set up the Lean Library The browser extension Lean Library is available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari.* Download Browser Extension […]

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See also blogpost on published articles on Covid-19 / Sars-CoV-2 The quality of scientific work aims to be ensured by an external assessment, the so-called peer review. However, this procedure takes a lot of time. In the current situation, physicians and researchers want to gain potentially important insights as quickly as possible. Thus, already written, […]

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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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last update 15.05.2020 Many organizations, databases and publishers are currently listing articles on coronavirus on their websites. Here you find a selection: *in alphabetical order, including many free-access contents (source: Finding the Evidence: Coronavirus )

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The systematic review of randomised controlled trials (with or without meta-analysis) is an important tool when appraising e.g. the effectiveness of interventions, although its place on top of the evidence pyramid is being discussed (1). But apart from the systematic review, there is a number of other review types. In a recently published article 48 […]

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In the reference management program EndNote (from version X7.2), a literature collection (library) can be shared with other people using the Share function. This can be very useful for working teams who want to write common publications or build up common literature collections. The Share function at a glance: To share a library, you and […]

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ZORA entries with a full text document are now marked with a lock. The colour of the lock indicates the Open Access type at a glance.  Green – refers to the self-archiving of submitted or accepted manuscripts in repositories. Gold – refers to publications in freely accessible Open Access journals or books. Orange – Hybrid, […]

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New and from today all dentistry titles from the german e-book package Clinic and Practice are available at the UZH via Thieme Connect. Next week, all new titles will also be available via the Rechercheportal. In addition, within the UZH or with an activated VPN connection, access is also possible from the title list. Easy […]

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While preparing for a presentation, writing an article or thesis you find figures and data that would fit your work perfectly. Here we provide a short guide on how to get permission to reuse content published in different media. All rights reserved The copyright is owned by the publisher and reusing the content without their […]

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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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