News and courses
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Thomas Mann's letters online
To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, the Thomas Mann Archive at the ETH Library is launching a new online platform. It offers digital access to the writer's letters for the first time.
SNSF project approved? The ETH Library helps with the data management plan
Has the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) accepted your project for funding? Then you need a Data Management Plan (DMP) now so the funds can be released.
Events
Our doors are open to everyone. Come see our exhibits, take one of our public tours, or plan a private tour of our archives or collections for groups of five or more. Researchers and science lovers are invited to attend our conferences and podium discussions.
Courses and workshops
We hold courses and workshops that are open to the public and cover topics such as information research, reference management and scientific writing as well as research data management and open access.
| Title | Date | Duration | No. Places available/total |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to choose a Creative Commons License for your publication (Coffee Lecture) | 04.06.2025 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Search for historical images in the new E-Pics image archive (Coffee Lecture) | 11.06.2025 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Open research analytics with OpenAlex (Coffee Lecture) | 18.06.2025 | 15 min | 60 / 60 |
| Mastering scientific writing with AI-based tools | 19.06.2025 | 3h 45min | 0 / 25 |
| Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 26.06.2025 | 75 min | 3 / 4 |
Blogs and social media
The ETH Library regularly updates different blogs with content from our collections, archives and holdings: from highlights from the archive to the latest results of crowdsourcing initiatives all the way to multimedia stories posted on the storytelling platform Explora.
On social media, we share our knowledge on a variety of different platforms – from Facebook to Instagram to YouTube – in order to promote dialogue both within and outside of ETH Zurich.