Links (English)

Relevant ETH Websites (RDM)

• General Overview about RDM

• RDM overview from ETH Library

• ETH Library RDM wiki (guides, templates, FAQs etc.)

• Data Stewardship at ETH Zurich

• RDM solutions from Scientific IT Services (SIS)

• Open access at ETH Zurich

• Open Science at ETH Zurich (Office of Research)

• Compliance at ETH Zurich

• ETH IT Service catalogue

• ETH technology transfer office (ETH transfer)

• ETH Legal Office

Relevant ETH Legal Documents (RDM)

• Official collection of legal documents at ETH Zurich

• Guidelines for Research Data Management at ETH Zurich, RDM Guidelines (PDF, 229 KB)

• ETH Zurich’s open access policy (PDF, 101 KB)

• ETH Zurich Guidelines on scientific integrity, Integrity Guidelines (PDF, 234 KB)

• ETH Compliance Guide (PDF, 868 KB)

• ETH IT legal documents

• ETH Zurich Acceptable Use Policy for Information and Communications Technology, “BOT” (PDF, 447 KB)

RDM Guidelines of Funders and Templates for Data Management Plans (DMPs)

• List of DMP guidelines and templates from ETH Library

• DMP Instructions for ETH Researchers

• Open Research Data (ORD) website of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

• Data Management Plan (DMP) - Guidelines for researchers from the SNSF

• Form with sub-questions and help text for the SNSF’s DMP (PDF, 212 KB)

• Guidance for ETH researchers on the SNSF’s DMP

• Horizon Europe fact sheet of the EU GrantsAccess office (PDF, 291 KB)

• EU GrantsAccess (advice on European research funding)

Open Science Initiatives

• Open Science Website of the SNSF

• swissuniversities Open Science program 2021 -2024

• ETH domain Open Research Data program

• Open Science Website of the European Commission

• Open Science under Horizon Europe

• Science Europe Website on the Priority Open Science

• European Open Science Cloud Association (ETH Zurich is member)

• UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

• FAIR Principles

Metadata Standards and Controlled Vocabularies

• List of metadata standards from DCC

• Metadata standards catalogue from RDA

• Metadata standards database from FAIRsharing.org

• Linked Open Vocabularies

• Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications

• Advice on Metadata standard selection from Jisc

IT Solutions for RDM at ETH

• Services from Scientific IT Services

• Code versioning with GitLab

• Departmental IT service groups

• IT Knowledge Base (Confluence)

• Data exchange with polybox (data stored at ETH)

• File transferring with Globus or SWITCHfilesender

Data Publication

• Step-by-Step Guide on Data Publication for ETH Zurich Researchers
• Institutional FAIR data repository, ETH Research Collection
• Guide for writing README files
• Guide for data availability statements
• ETH Zurich DOI Desk
• Publication of large datasets (TB range)
• How to cite your data (DataCite)
• re3data: Most comprehensive registry of research data repositories
• SNSF’s checklist for identifying FAIR data repositories (PDF, 96 KB)
• List of data repositories that are frequently used and comply with the SNSF ORD criteria
• Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (Copyright Act (CopA), SR 231.1)
• Creative Commons Licenses

Long-Term Preservation and Storage

• Suitable File Formats for Archiving

• Long-term preservation solution at ETH, ETH Data Archive

• Long term storage (LTS)

Sensitive Data and Information Security

• Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP, SR 235.1)

• Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings (Human Research Act (HRA), SR 810.30)

• ETH Fact Sheet “Data Protection in Research Projects” (PDF, 480 KB)

• ETH information on research with human participants

• ETH Ethics Resource Platform (ETHics)

• Confidential research data support by SIS

• Information Security at ETH

• Data Security at ETH

• Directive on “Information Security at ETH Zurich” (PDF, 311 KB)

• Usage of External Cloud Services at ETH

• List of External Cloud Services Released for Use at ETH

RDM Trainings

• RDM workshop series

• ETH Research Data Management Summer School (2023)

• ETH-Library Coffee lectures on various RDM-related topics (among other library topics)

• Consulting and Training from Scientific IT Services

• Free online training on RDM related topics from the University of Edinburgh

• Calendar of events from forschungsdaten.info about talks and workshops related to RDM (German)

ETH Contact Points

• Research Data Management (joint Mailbox from SIS and ETH Library): researchdata@ethz.ch

• Research Data Management (Mailbox of ETH Library): data-management@library.ethz.ch

• Data publishing via ETH Research Collection: research-collection@library.ethz.ch

• Open-access publishing: e-publishing@library.ethz.ch

• Scientific IT Services (SIS): sis.helpdesk@ethz.ch

• IT Services: servicedesk@id.ethz.ch

• Research ethics: ethics@sl.ethz.ch

• Data protection: ds@ethz.ch

• Legal matters: vincenza.klarer@sl.ethz.ch

• ETH transfer: cordelia.stanger@sl.ethz.ch

• Funding of ORD projects: openscience@sl.ethz.ch

• Research Funding: research@sl.ethz.ch (ETH-internal and SNSF), grants@sl.ethz.ch (EU programmes)