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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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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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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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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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For the 6th time in a row team “ZORA rennt” was able to achieve a good position during the SOLA relay. In addition to dedicated runners from Zentrale Informatik and the Main Library, several other outstanding athletes joined our team. Our respect goes especially to the runners of the afternoon races: Even rain and hail […]

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Starting July 2018, the full texts of all e-dissertations of the University of Zurich will be archived in ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive) instead of the ALEPH library system. The official task to collect the e-dissertations will remain with the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, whose Turicensia team will enter them into ZORA. The metadata is still […]

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For the 5th time in a row the team “ZORA rennt” was able to achieve a very good rank at the SOLA relay. In addition to dedicated runners from Zentralen Informatik and the Main Library, several other outstanding athletes were recruited to the team. Marcel Riedi, head of S3IT, mastered the final stage with flying […]

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On a publication page, ZORA now displays citation counts from the Dimension research insights platform in a badge. Example: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/75354/ When you hover the Dimensions badge with the mouse, a box with additional citation metrics is shown: The recent count of citations that the publication has received in the last two years, the Field Citation […]

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