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[Translate to English:] Oliver Renn

13 Years of Vision and Dedication: Farewell to Dr. Oliver Renn

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As Head of the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center, Science Communication and, most recently, Public Relations of the D-CHAB, Dr. Oliver Renn will retire as of June 1, 2025. With outstanding commitment and expertise, he played a key role in shaping information literacy at ETH Zurich and transformed the Information Center from a traditional library into a modern, multifaceted competence center for scientific information.

Infozine No. 30 has been published!

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The 30th Issue of our magazine Infozine is now available online, once again with a mix of News from the Information Center, the world of scientific communication and tips and tricks.

Coffee Lectures: The 35th series!

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In June there will be another series of Coffee Lectures with topics for students, assistants, and researchers. The 35th series of the Coffee Lecture begins on June 10, 2025, with many interesting topics.

Opening hours Summer 2025

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During the learning and exam period, we will again offer extended opening hours in the evenings and on weekends.

Events

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Electronic laboratory journals (No. 35)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:10
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

For scientific record keeping, digital records have a number of advantages over paper notebooks. We will introduce you to a selection of ELNs that are used at ETH Zurich and highlight their strengths and weaknesses.

Sharing reading lists with Leganto (No. 55)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:10
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Leganto is a tool that makes it easy to create, manage and share course reading lists. Lecturers can add different types of materials such as books, articles, websites and videos.

ACD/Name – a nomenclature tool (No. 32)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:10
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Draw a chemical structure, push the button, and get the correct IUPAC name including stereodescriptors, even for complex inorganic and organometallic structures!

Synthia (No. 59)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:10
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Synthia helps you design multi-step organic syntheses.

Swisscovery (No. 36)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:10
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Swisscovery provides you not only with essential literature but offers you also the possibility to save your queries or to add titles to your list of favorites.

Let's GIT going (No. 13)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:10
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Track changes, go back to previous versions and collaborate on projects - we introduce you to the most-used versioning software, git, and help you get started.