News 2024
News list
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No deal situation with Wiley and LWW for 2025
The negotiations with Wiley and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer (LWW) have not yet led to a satisfactory result. It is now increasingly likely that there will be a no-deal situation with both publisher as of January 1, 2025.
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Report on the Closing Event P5 Open Science Projects
On November 18, 2024, the P5 Open Science closing event took place.
The well-attended event showed that the UZH is doing a lot to promote Open Science. During the last swissuniversities funding period, 27 projects at the University of Zurich dealt with practices for implementing Open Science, such as the second publication right or data stewards.
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P5 Open Science Closing Event
With the P5 Open Science closing event Vice Presidents Prof. Elisabeth Stark and Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger look back on UZH's Open Science projects funded by swissuniversities from 2021 to 2024 and provide an outlook on swissuniversities' next funding period PgB Open Science II 2025-2028.
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Webinar "Förderung von Open Access in den Rechtswissenschaften" (22 October 2024)
On 22 October 2024, the webinar “Förderung von Open Access in den Rechtswissenschaften” took place, organised by ZHB Luzern in collaboration with the PLATO project, as part of the International Open Access Week 2024.
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Webinar "When Green meets Diamond Open Access"
This webinar explored the connections, perceptions and challenges of Green and Diamond Open Access and how we can utilise the opportunities and synergies of these two Open Access paths to further develop open, non-commercial publication infrastructures.
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First Swiss Reproducibility Conference: Scientific Community Reflects on Fundamental Research Standards
Reproducible research results are a key standard in the sciences. At the inaugural Swiss Reproducibility Conference, researchers discussed the best ways to meet this requirement – including in the face of growing data volumes and the pressure to publish.
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LERU publishes report on Next Generation Metrics
LERU has just produced a report on Next Generation Metrics for Scientific and Scholarly Research in Europe, with recommendations for all sections of the academic community, from researchers and experts in metrics, to university and faculty leaders.
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Diamond Open Access Conference Report published
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”.
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National Diamond Open Access Conference
On 8 March 2024, the PLATO project organised the first national Diamond Open Access conference in Switzerland under the title "Acting Together for Sustainable Scholar-Led Publishing".
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Networking Event for Editors of Diamond Open Access Journals
The "Platinum Open Access Funding" (PLATO) project hosted an informal networking meeting for editors of Diamond Open Access journals at Zurich universities on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, to promote exchange within the Diamond Open Access community.
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UZH to No Longer Provide Data for THE Ranking
Although rankings purport to comprehensively measure universities’ diverse achievements in teaching and research, they cannot do so as they reduce indicators to a score and focus on quantitative criteria. As a result of various conflicting approaches, UZH has decided it will no longer provide data for the THE (Times Higher Education) ranking.