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The Web of Science database platform was redesigned. The user interface has been redesigned and new features have been added. The old “classic” Web of Science interface will be available until the end of 2021.In this context, the Journal Citation Reports were also renewed. The new features include: The Web of Science Author Impact Beamplots […]

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The 2021 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) with the Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) by Clarivate are now available. This year’s edition includes: more journals – content has been expanded to more than 20,000 journals from 113 countries and 254 research categories in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Journal Citation Indicator – a new field-normalized […]

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Scientists at the University of Zurich are able to publish Open Access articles free of charge published in journals within the Read&Publish agreement by Taylor&Francis. This agreement covers the article processing charges (APCs) for a fixed number of articles published in Taylor&Francis journals per year. This number has now been reached for 2021. Until the […]

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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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Open Access indicates that a publication is accessible on the internet without technical and legal obstacles. In 2016, Swissuniversities – the governing body of the Swiss Higher Education Institutions – developed a national strategy for Open Access in cooperation with the Swiss National Science Foundation. The aim is for 100% of publicly funded scientific publications […]

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Most research funders, including the SNSF, will ask you to submit a data management plan (DMP) when applying for a grant. Even though the DMP is not part of the scientific evaluation of your proposal, it can still be rejected, or you can be asked to make revisions. Avoid the most common mistakes below, and […]

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swisscovery is the new research platform of the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP), that allows access to the entire scientific media stock of Switzerland. In addition to books, e-books, journals, databases and other media can be searched. To use swisscovery services, please register at the registration platform. Our FAQ blog will guide you trough the […]

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If you have published a scientific article, chances are that you are receiving emails from “journals” congratulating on your work and inviting you to publish with them. The more often you took the role as corresponding author of a publication, the more your inbox is likely to overflow with these invitations. While you might be […]

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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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Do you know SciFinder-n? If you’re a chemist, you’ll most likely answer with yes. To scientists of other disciplines, however, this literature database and intuitive search tool is hardly known. In this Coffee Lecture, we demonstrate how you’ll greatly benefit from SciFinder-n, no matter whether you’re a researcher in the life sciences, medicine, physics, earth […]

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