Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heide... more Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 5–7 Jul 2016.<br><br>Link to Conference: http://www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01/
Download and use of full text All contributions have been archived in ETH Zurich's e-collection a... more Download and use of full text All contributions have been archived in ETH Zurich's e-collection and can be retrieved at http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch. A PDF of the Special Issue can be retrieved from http://www.infozentrum.ethz.ch/en/downloads-icbp/brochures/. DOI numbers have been assigned by the ETH Library, DOI-Desk. Individual copyrights have been assigned to the contributions. Please use the hashtag #infozineS1metrics @infozentrum (Instagram, Facebook)) @icbpeth (twitter) when mentioning articles in social media. Infozine and its Special Issues are published by the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center, a function within the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences and the Department of Biology at the ETH Zurich. Infozine is published as an English and German edition, Special Issues in English only.
Poster from Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences EMBL Conference EMBL Heidelberg, Germany... more Poster from Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences EMBL Conference EMBL Heidelberg, Germany 5 - 7 Jul 2016 http://www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01/
Supplementary material (table with data) to the article "Lernen und Lehren 2.0: So hättenSie... more Supplementary material (table with data) to the article "Lernen und Lehren 2.0: So hättenSie es gerne!", published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Vol. 65, 2017<br>
Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heide... more Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 5–7 Jul 2016.<br><br>Link to Conference: http://www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01/
A brief visual history of research metrics Research metrics started in chemistry Research metrics... more A brief visual history of research metrics Research metrics started in chemistry Research metrics are relatively recent considering that scientific journals, historically the main basis for these metrics, have been already established more than 350 years ago. The first research metrics introduced were bibliometrics, i.e. they relied on the statistical analysis of publications, books or journals (Figure 1). Among the methods used for bibliometrics, citation analysis is the most important. The first citation analysis was executed by Gross and Gross in 1927 [1]. They counted citations in articles (manually!) so as to produce a ranking of chemistry journals, aimed as a guide to help chemistry librarians decide which journals to subscribe to. It was a chemist, Eugene Garfield, who suggested in 1955 [2] to systematically count and analyze citations in the scientific literature. At that time, he was publisher of Current Contents (CC), a directory of scientific journals' tables of contents. Scientists born in the sixties may still remember the times when one visited the library every week to browse through the latest CC issue, in order to stay tuned to new publications of interest.
2020 Vasques. Este é um artigo de acesso aberto distribuído sob os termos da Licença Creative Com... more 2020 Vasques. Este é um artigo de acesso aberto distribuído sob os termos da Licença Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, que permite uso, distribuição e reprodução para fins não comercias, com a citação dos autores e da fonte original e sob a mesma licença.
Students and researchers, especially in the natural sciences, benefit from an exponentially growi... more Students and researchers, especially in the natural sciences, benefit from an exponentially growing number of databases and informatics solutions, which facilitate the work with scientific information. However, at many universities, literacy is still viewed only in a subject-specific context. Therefore, databases and tools remain mostly underutilized. We believe that libraries must take the lead in teaching subject-independent information literacy, taking over an important role in educating the workforce of the digital future. By accepting this new role, libraries will develop into a skill center that seamlessly integrates into the research and teaching environment of a university. These new roles require also new skill sets of the library staff. At ETH Zurich, the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center has successfully taken this new role and is teaching information literacy for chemistry, life sciences, pharmaceutical, materials and health sciences. We have also develop...
In recent years, the number of targeted cancer drugs has continued to rise. However, conventional... more In recent years, the number of targeted cancer drugs has continued to rise. However, conventional chemotherapeutic agents still play an important role in cancer treatment. These include platinum -based cytotoxic agents that attack and kill cancer cells. But these agents also damage healthy tissue and cause severe side effects. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now identified an approach that allows for a more selective cancer treatment with drugs of this kind.
Zusammenfassung: In der Wissensgesellschaft ist nicht nur Fachwissen wichtig, sondern auch das Wi... more Zusammenfassung: In der Wissensgesellschaft ist nicht nur Fachwissen wichtig, sondern auch das Wissen darüber, wie man Informationen findet, nutzt und teilt. Dieses Wissen, diese Informationskompetenz geht weit über die klassische Recherche in Katalogen hinaus. Die Deutsche Hochschulrektorenkonferenz hat deshalb z.B. 2012 aufgefordert, „Informationskompetenz neu zu begreifen und die Praxis von Lehre und Forschung auszuweiten“. Das „Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education“ der Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) von 2016 fordert ebenfalls, stärker auf die Bedürfnisse und Denkansätze der neuen Studierenden, der Digital Natives, einzugehen, um so Digital Literacy langfristig und effektiv in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu integrieren. Vorgestellt wird das Curriculum und die Formate für Digital Literacy, welche seit 2012 am Informationszentrum Chemie | Biologie| Pharmazie der ETH Zürich entwickelt wurden und seit 2013 erfolgreich in die Praxis umgesetz...
In natural sciences, digital tools for information management are essential but formats for teach... more In natural sciences, digital tools for information management are essential but formats for teaching them were missing. Coffee Lectures provide such a format, which is now successfully adopted by 50 institutions Europe-wide.
Universities educate students for working in knowledge-driven societies. Whereas subject-related ... more Universities educate students for working in knowledge-driven societies. Whereas subject-related knowledge is part of every curriculum, institutions of higher education fail to teach systematically how to utilize and benefit from today’s variety of digital tools. Students and researchers are mostly unaware of what they lack to work more effectively and efficiently and to benefit from existing knowledge. Since this lack of awareness is not obvious to students and researchers (unknown unknowns; you cannot miss something that you do not know), it is difficult to convince them that there is a gap that needs to be filled. In 2014, we decided to tackle this problem by creating and developing the course “Scientific Information Retrieval & Management in Life Sciences and Chemistry”. The unique 2 ECTS course features a multi-level approach to obtain and employ scientific information and to get students information savvy. On one hand, the course demonstrates the bigger picture: We discuss th...
Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education
In the past, library users had to come to the library. Today, the library has to approach their p... more In the past, library users had to come to the library. Today, the library has to approach their possible clients, with interactions and services that prove the value of the engagement, especially in higher education. Libraries must be recognized and acknowledged as skills centers for dealing with scientific information. Since 2013, we have gradually transformed our library into a multifunctional learning space, but also into a center that scouts, evaluates and selects information management solutions for life sciences and chemistry, develops own solutions and keeps their patrons tuned to the latest developments. We reach out to our clients in multiple ways. We raise awareness for selected new tools and databases through Infocus, a personalized e-mail newsletter, which is created based on users’ interest profiles. Infocus is complemented by Infozine, a magazine for users of scientific information, which is sent to all members of the departments we serve and also to external subscribe...
Nutzer empfinden die von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken angebotenen Schulungen zur Informations... more Nutzer empfinden die von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken angebotenen Schulungen zur Informationskompetenz und insbesondere zu Datenbanken oft als unnötig und uninteressant oder zu zeitraubend. Der Beitrag beschreibt das Konzept und die ersten Erfahrungen mit den Coffee Lectures, einem Format, welches Ende 2013 an der ETH Zürich eingeführt wurde, und welches auf kurzen, maximal zehnminütigen Vorträgen beruht, während denen gratis ein Kaffee oder Tee getrunken werden kann.
Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heide... more Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 5–7 Jul 2016.<br><br>Link to Conference: http://www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01/
Download and use of full text All contributions have been archived in ETH Zurich's e-collection a... more Download and use of full text All contributions have been archived in ETH Zurich's e-collection and can be retrieved at http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch. A PDF of the Special Issue can be retrieved from http://www.infozentrum.ethz.ch/en/downloads-icbp/brochures/. DOI numbers have been assigned by the ETH Library, DOI-Desk. Individual copyrights have been assigned to the contributions. Please use the hashtag #infozineS1metrics @infozentrum (Instagram, Facebook)) @icbpeth (twitter) when mentioning articles in social media. Infozine and its Special Issues are published by the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center, a function within the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences and the Department of Biology at the ETH Zurich. Infozine is published as an English and German edition, Special Issues in English only.
Poster from Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences EMBL Conference EMBL Heidelberg, Germany... more Poster from Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences EMBL Conference EMBL Heidelberg, Germany 5 - 7 Jul 2016 http://www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01/
Supplementary material (table with data) to the article "Lernen und Lehren 2.0: So hättenSie... more Supplementary material (table with data) to the article "Lernen und Lehren 2.0: So hättenSie es gerne!", published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Vol. 65, 2017<br>
Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heide... more Poster from "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", EMBL Conference, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 5–7 Jul 2016.<br><br>Link to Conference: http://www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01/
A brief visual history of research metrics Research metrics started in chemistry Research metrics... more A brief visual history of research metrics Research metrics started in chemistry Research metrics are relatively recent considering that scientific journals, historically the main basis for these metrics, have been already established more than 350 years ago. The first research metrics introduced were bibliometrics, i.e. they relied on the statistical analysis of publications, books or journals (Figure 1). Among the methods used for bibliometrics, citation analysis is the most important. The first citation analysis was executed by Gross and Gross in 1927 [1]. They counted citations in articles (manually!) so as to produce a ranking of chemistry journals, aimed as a guide to help chemistry librarians decide which journals to subscribe to. It was a chemist, Eugene Garfield, who suggested in 1955 [2] to systematically count and analyze citations in the scientific literature. At that time, he was publisher of Current Contents (CC), a directory of scientific journals' tables of contents. Scientists born in the sixties may still remember the times when one visited the library every week to browse through the latest CC issue, in order to stay tuned to new publications of interest.
2020 Vasques. Este é um artigo de acesso aberto distribuído sob os termos da Licença Creative Com... more 2020 Vasques. Este é um artigo de acesso aberto distribuído sob os termos da Licença Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, que permite uso, distribuição e reprodução para fins não comercias, com a citação dos autores e da fonte original e sob a mesma licença.
Students and researchers, especially in the natural sciences, benefit from an exponentially growi... more Students and researchers, especially in the natural sciences, benefit from an exponentially growing number of databases and informatics solutions, which facilitate the work with scientific information. However, at many universities, literacy is still viewed only in a subject-specific context. Therefore, databases and tools remain mostly underutilized. We believe that libraries must take the lead in teaching subject-independent information literacy, taking over an important role in educating the workforce of the digital future. By accepting this new role, libraries will develop into a skill center that seamlessly integrates into the research and teaching environment of a university. These new roles require also new skill sets of the library staff. At ETH Zurich, the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center has successfully taken this new role and is teaching information literacy for chemistry, life sciences, pharmaceutical, materials and health sciences. We have also develop...
In recent years, the number of targeted cancer drugs has continued to rise. However, conventional... more In recent years, the number of targeted cancer drugs has continued to rise. However, conventional chemotherapeutic agents still play an important role in cancer treatment. These include platinum -based cytotoxic agents that attack and kill cancer cells. But these agents also damage healthy tissue and cause severe side effects. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now identified an approach that allows for a more selective cancer treatment with drugs of this kind.
Zusammenfassung: In der Wissensgesellschaft ist nicht nur Fachwissen wichtig, sondern auch das Wi... more Zusammenfassung: In der Wissensgesellschaft ist nicht nur Fachwissen wichtig, sondern auch das Wissen darüber, wie man Informationen findet, nutzt und teilt. Dieses Wissen, diese Informationskompetenz geht weit über die klassische Recherche in Katalogen hinaus. Die Deutsche Hochschulrektorenkonferenz hat deshalb z.B. 2012 aufgefordert, „Informationskompetenz neu zu begreifen und die Praxis von Lehre und Forschung auszuweiten“. Das „Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education“ der Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) von 2016 fordert ebenfalls, stärker auf die Bedürfnisse und Denkansätze der neuen Studierenden, der Digital Natives, einzugehen, um so Digital Literacy langfristig und effektiv in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu integrieren. Vorgestellt wird das Curriculum und die Formate für Digital Literacy, welche seit 2012 am Informationszentrum Chemie | Biologie| Pharmazie der ETH Zürich entwickelt wurden und seit 2013 erfolgreich in die Praxis umgesetz...
In natural sciences, digital tools for information management are essential but formats for teach... more In natural sciences, digital tools for information management are essential but formats for teaching them were missing. Coffee Lectures provide such a format, which is now successfully adopted by 50 institutions Europe-wide.
Universities educate students for working in knowledge-driven societies. Whereas subject-related ... more Universities educate students for working in knowledge-driven societies. Whereas subject-related knowledge is part of every curriculum, institutions of higher education fail to teach systematically how to utilize and benefit from today’s variety of digital tools. Students and researchers are mostly unaware of what they lack to work more effectively and efficiently and to benefit from existing knowledge. Since this lack of awareness is not obvious to students and researchers (unknown unknowns; you cannot miss something that you do not know), it is difficult to convince them that there is a gap that needs to be filled. In 2014, we decided to tackle this problem by creating and developing the course “Scientific Information Retrieval & Management in Life Sciences and Chemistry”. The unique 2 ECTS course features a multi-level approach to obtain and employ scientific information and to get students information savvy. On one hand, the course demonstrates the bigger picture: We discuss th...
Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education
In the past, library users had to come to the library. Today, the library has to approach their p... more In the past, library users had to come to the library. Today, the library has to approach their possible clients, with interactions and services that prove the value of the engagement, especially in higher education. Libraries must be recognized and acknowledged as skills centers for dealing with scientific information. Since 2013, we have gradually transformed our library into a multifunctional learning space, but also into a center that scouts, evaluates and selects information management solutions for life sciences and chemistry, develops own solutions and keeps their patrons tuned to the latest developments. We reach out to our clients in multiple ways. We raise awareness for selected new tools and databases through Infocus, a personalized e-mail newsletter, which is created based on users’ interest profiles. Infocus is complemented by Infozine, a magazine for users of scientific information, which is sent to all members of the departments we serve and also to external subscribe...
Nutzer empfinden die von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken angebotenen Schulungen zur Informations... more Nutzer empfinden die von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken angebotenen Schulungen zur Informationskompetenz und insbesondere zu Datenbanken oft als unnötig und uninteressant oder zu zeitraubend. Der Beitrag beschreibt das Konzept und die ersten Erfahrungen mit den Coffee Lectures, einem Format, welches Ende 2013 an der ETH Zürich eingeführt wurde, und welches auf kurzen, maximal zehnminütigen Vorträgen beruht, während denen gratis ein Kaffee oder Tee getrunken werden kann.
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