Open Access in Switzerland

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Open Access Repositories

• Alexandria Research Platform, University of St. Gallen
• Archive ouvert UNIGE, University of Geneva
• Bibliothèque Numérique RERO DOC, Library Network of Western Switzerland
• CERN Document Server, CERN
• Codices Electronici Sangallenses,Stiftsbibliothek St.Gallen / University of Fribourg
• DigiBern, Bernese Culture and Histroy on the Web
• e-codices, University of Fribourg
• edoc, University of Basel
• edudoc.ch, Schweizerischer Dokumentenserver Bildung
• ETH E-Collection, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
• Infoscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• MSF Field Research, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
• Reproducible Research Repository, LCAV and EPFL
• SEALS, Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries
• Serval, University of Lausanne
• ZORA, University of Zurich

DRIVER itself is harvesting metadata from four Swiss repositories: Alexandria, ETH E-Collection, InfoScience and Bibliotheque Numberique RERO DOC.

(May 2009)

Open Access Organisations/Groups

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Open Access Projects/Initiatives

Several universities and organizations in Switzerland actively support Open Access. Open Access policies can be found on ROARMAP from:

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
• University of St. Gallen
• University of Zurich

So far the following organizations from Switzerland have signed the Berlin Declaration:

• University of Freiburg, 2008
• University of Bern, 2007
• University of Basel, 2007
• University of St. Gallen, 2006
• Paul Scherrer Institut, 2006
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), 2006
• Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences (KFH), 2006
• Conférence suisse des rectrices et recteurs es hautes écoles pédagogiques, 2006
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), 2006
• Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, 2006
• Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities, 2006
• University of Zurich, 2004
• CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2004

Open Access Journals

There are about 50 journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOJA) listed, which have their origin in Switzerland

Copyright

Information about the copyright law in Switzerland can be found on the following websites:

• Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
• Swiss-copyright.ch

There are Creative Commons Licenses (CC licenses) for Switzerland available. The CC licenses have been translated and adapted to national legislation. It is possible to license a work under the Swiss jurisdiction's law.

• http://www.creativecommons.ch/
• http://creativecommons.org/international/ch/

Funding Policies

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) signed the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities” in 2006.

The SNF requires funding recipients to publish their research results free of charge on the Internet in electronic form, parallel to any commercial publication.

As an alternative, funding recipients can publish their research results in a peer-reviewed open access journal.

http://www.snf.ch/E/current/Dossiers/Pages/OpenAccess.aspx

Publishers and Open Access

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Current Local News & Events

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Contributor's contact details

ETH Zurich
ETH-Bibliothek
ETH E-Collection: e-collection@library.ethz.ch