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Hands-On Hour, or in short HOH

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60-minute practical sessions dedicated to testing, evaluating, and discussing tools and databases for information, data, and AI literacy.

 

World Book Day 2026

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On 23 April, we’re celebrating UNESCO World Book Day! Traditionally, people swap and give away books on this day. Join in the celebrations and bring your books and DVDs to the book swap van outside the entrance to the Information Centre! 

Events

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Hands-On Hour: AI-Assisted vs. Systematic Literature Search

Type of Event: Workshop
Language: English
Time: 16:00–17:00
Place: HCI G2

Tools: Consensus, LeapSpace, Scopus

Hands-On Hour: Interacting with Your Academic Sources

Type of Event: Workshop
Language: English
Time: 16:00–17:00
Place: HCI H 2.1

Tools: NotebookLM, Copilot, Gemini

(Chemistry) Learning Apps (No. 57)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:15
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Chemistry by Design is an app for training skills required for multi -step synthes is planning .
Anki, on the other hand, is a very flexible flashcard app – be it for chemistry, or other topics .

FigureLabs (No. 80)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:15
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

FigureLabs is an AI-driven scientific illustration tool that can turn prompts, sketches,
and reference images into editable, publication-ready figures , saving ours of design
work. 

Agentic AI in SciFinder (No. 44)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:15
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Discover Newton, the new agentic AI built into the SciFinder interface.

Mind the Graph (No. 81)

Type of Event: Coffee Lecture
Language: English
Time: 13:00–13:15
Place: HCI G2 and https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Do you want to make figures in BioRender but find the price too high?