1st Swiss Diamond Open Access Conference
How can Diamond Open Access be better supported in Switzerland? What are the opportunities and challenges associated with scholar-led publication initiatives? These questions stood at the centre of the 1st Swiss Diamond Open Access Conference, which took place in Bern on 8 March 2024 under the title «Acting Together for Sustainable Scholar-Led Publishing».
Open Access Week 2023 at UZH
During the International Open Access Week, academia around the world is focusing on scholarly communication. In this context, twenty UZH-projects that conduct open scholarship and make their research publicly accessible presented their work this year. An additional panel discussion between researchers, university management and research support put the spotlight on strategic and infrastructural issues and the future of the open access transformation.
A Fresh Breeze on HOPE – The Open Access Database DOCA and the Open Access Handbook
The newly designed Open Access Database DOCA compiles, systematizes and evaluates relevant content-analytical variables of communication and political science research areas and topics. The database is accompanied by a recently published Open Access Handbook. With the publication platform HOPE, the creative considerations of DOCA could be realized.
The archaeological Open Access journal ‘Bothros’
The archaeological Open Access journal ‘Bothros’ is now published at the University of Zurich.
kids+media new on HOPE
With the publication of its 21st issue, the journal kids+media is now hosted on the open access publishing platform HOPE.
ZORA Gets a New Foundation
ZORA is the institutional repository of the University of Zurich and an important pillar of its Open Science strategy. In a joint project with UZH Informatik, we are now working on a new software solution for ZORA that will equip the platform for the future.
Project to anchor a second publication right in Switzerland
In Switzerland, there is no legally anchored, indispensable second publication right for authors of scientific journal articles. The project “Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht und Open Access als regulatorische Herausforderung” (Second publication rights and Open Access as a regulatory challenge), funded by swissuniversities, aims…
Co-author networks at UZH
The fact that scientists at the University of Zurich are increasingly conducting their research in a collaborative and transnational manner finds expression in wide-ranging author networks. In the ZORA repository, these are visible and explorable thanks to impressive visualization options.
Publishing linguistic research data with LaRS
Linguistics researchers can now archive and publish their research data free of charge with LaRS. How does it work?
Open Citation Data and Reference Linking
What is open citation data? How is it made available? And how do you use it?