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Crash Courses Spring 2025

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Do you want to save a lot of time during your research or Master's project? The Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center offers a wide range of valuable crash courses on scientific information retrieval and visualization: Text-based literature search with Scopus, visualization with PyMOL or ChemDraw, ChatGPT for many applications, networking with LinkedIn, or information management with Obsidian. There is something for you too!

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Selection of newly acquired books May 2025

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A selection of newly acquired books, for the four subject areas Chemistry & Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Bridging Scientific Disciplines as well as Popular Science & Lifelong Learning, can be found online.

Book exchange campaign extended!

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The book exchange campaign will be extended from 2 May to 6 Juni. Take the opportunity to organise your media stock and bring your discarded books to ETH Zurich for exchange.

 

Events

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Altmetric & Dimensions Academic User Day

Type of Event: Webinar
Language: English
Time: 11:00–15:00
Place: Online

This virtual user day is offered by the Altmetric Team. Participants can explore the latest product enhancements and upcoming developments in Altmetric and Dimensions, while also hearing how users in range of institutions use these tools.

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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.