Tips&Tricks
a loose collection of hintsthat you might find interesting for your research work
a loose collection of hintsthat you might find interesting for your research work
NEW: How to cite or publish SwissTopo data: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/home/meta/konditionen/geodaten/source.html
New (Nov 2023): Do you know the tool One Note that is on all Windows PCs? It is very powerful to take notes while you are working e.g. on your literature review. You have different note sheets in parallel, if you copy something from the web, it pastes the source automatically... to discover
Do not forget to read the page on "paper writing"
Section moved to the page AI@GIUB
www.overleaf.com (there is one person in charge at UniBern, kurt.suter@unibe.ch see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13-2onUcmWTV6bgOucWjLqLb6lpZwNyND8Ai4nTSjyjY/edit#gid=0; to have your name added, please collect all possible names and forward first to Bettina
https://app.grammarly.com/: helps improving Word and Online Texts, works great; Saliba (GIUB) transfered the names of GIUB users to the next level
Matlab: Saliba can get the licence for you
Camtasia: Cool tool to record your teaching videos, ask Saliba
Snagit and Snagit Editor (Saliba): the tool without which I would not survive: for screen captures and quick editing and archiving
Illustrator / Photoshop: I strongly suggest using open Software rather than getting used to this expensive stuff but we have licenses (Saliba)
a google slide with essentials about presenting figures in slides
Read and Publish: through the read and publish agreement of SwissUniversities, we can publish open access for free in the corresponding hybrid journals: see information here.
We have an agreement with Wiley, Springer and Elsevier.
Wiley: you can go "open access" for free in hybrid journals
Elsevier: "researchers will be able to publish Open Access across the majority of Elsevier’s Gold and Hybrid journals, scaling up to 100% by 2023. "
Springer -Nature: see here
For gold open access journals, we have to cover the APCs (article publication charges) ourselves but Uni Bern has a funding pot, see here; if you work for an SNF project, SNF pays upon simple request (not not for hybrid journals, only gold open access journals).
Attention: the funding runs out towards the end of the year!
If you are unsure, contact openaccess@unibe.ch.