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For the third time, the Library will celebrate International Open Access Week with various events and exhibitions set up by our open science Librarians Catherine Brendow and Guillaume Pasquier. The week’s theme this year is “Who owns our knowledge?”. Read to learn more!
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Some of the titles in our collection are or were banned or challenged in a variety of countries by governments, religious authorities, or other interest groups. Dictatorships come to mind, of course, but countries thought more liberal are not exempt from similar practices. Here is a short look at our selection on display for banned books week (October ).
Continue reading “Banned books week 2025: October 5-11”
The theme for this year’s Love Data Week may be surprising. This festival celebrating everything research data is taking place on the same week as Valentine’s Day, as usual (February 10-14). The Geneva Graduate Institute Library is one of the many Swiss organisations who set up online events for the occasion.
Continue reading ““Whose data is it anyway?” #LDW25″
Sound is all around us. It carries meaning through speech, and emotion through tone and music. The invention of radio, more than a century ago, changed the world, and the Internet gave this medium a new form through podcasts. Social science researchers, historians and anthropologists also use sound and recordings as research data or as the subject of their research, whether for oral histories or qualitative analysis.
Continue reading “22nd UNESCO Week of Sound”
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what’s happening at the Institute around research data support, mostly through the collaboration of the Library and the Tech Hub.
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