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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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Scientists at the University of Zurich can now publish Open Access articles free of charge in journals published by Wiley from May 1, 2021. This offer is made possible by the conclusion of a Read&Publish agreement jointly financed by the University Library and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. This agreement secures continued reading rights to the previously […]

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Professor Elisabeth Stark was elected as the new Vice President Research at UZH in January 2021 and is thus also responsible for the Open Science office, among other things. The topic of Open Science is now becoming more important than ever among researchers, not least because of UZH’s future Open Science Policy. Within the area […]

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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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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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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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See Continuation of negotiations with Wiley in 2021: “Despite mutual efforts, the current negotiations between swissuniversities and academic publisher John Wiley & Sons have not resulted in a Read&Publish agreement. At the end of November, the negotiating parties decided to continue negotiations at the beginning of 2021. Access for current licensees of Wiley Journals and […]

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