Open Science Initiative

Open Access: new transformative agreements with academic publishers

Published:08.03.23 — In the framework of the Swiss national strategy on Open Access, three new transformative agreements Read & Publish have been signed by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries with the publishers American Chemical Society (ACS), Oxford University Press (OUP) and Springer Nature. These agreements allow EPFL researchers to get access to the publisher’s portfolio and to publish Open Access free of charge, according to the conditions described below.

Updated EPFL template of Data Management Plan (DMP)

Published:09.12.22 — The EPFL Library is happy to announce that the new version of the EPFL Data Management Plan (DMP) template is now online.

OACT – A new solution for the Swiss research community

Published:24.10.22 — EPFL Library and University of Geneva Library are happy to present the Open Access Check Tool (OACT), an online resource that enables comparing Open Access publication conditions of research institutions, funders and scientific journals.