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Accepted Contributions

1. Which publication types are unsuitable for ZORA?

In general, ZORA does NOT accept the following publications:

  • Abstracts (conference papers published as abstracts only).
  • Blog posts
  • Scripts/teaching materials
  • Internal, unpublished research reports and papers (e.g., internal research reports to funders, commissions, or offices)
  • Pre-publications (pre-prints) that have not yet been published and are precursors to subsequent publishing publications (e.g. from arXiv, MedRxiv, bioRxiv, etc.)
  • Posters
  • Powerpoint presentations from conferences
  • Conference papers and presentations that are not published
  • articles in newspapers that are not listed in the guidelines
  • pure translations without annotations
  • Bachelor theses

2. Does ZORA accept working papers?

Yes, working papers can be recorded as a separate publication type in ZORA if they have been published in full, as a paper in the Internet within a working paper series. They must always include the full text. If they are later additionally published as journal articles, a second entry in ZORA will be recorded.

3. Which conference papers does ZORA not include?

For conference items, ZORA accepts bibliographic information and full texts only if the items are published as full articles. Abstracts, oral presentations or posters without full articles are therefore generally not accepted in ZORA, as mentioned in the Guide to ZORA.
Talks and poster presentations can be listed in the Academic Report in Chapter 3 "Research and Teaching".

  • Example 1: Conference papers at biomedical meetings are very often published only as abstracts (summaries). These abstracts are often published in a scientific journal as a supplement, have only one page number, are short, and published together with other abstracts in the supplement. They are not suitable for ZORA.
  • Example 2: Conference papers at computer science meetings are very often published as articles and are then suitable for ZORA.
  • Example 3: A conference item is labeled as "Speech" or "Lecture" in ZORA and is entered without full text. Searching the Internet does not reveal a published article, or only that a lecture was given. This is rejected by the ZORA editorial office. The e-mail message with the rejection text allows the submitter to attach the published article in ZORA, if one exists, and to re-submit the conference item in ZORA (deposit).
  • Example 4: A Conference Item is labeled "Speech" or "Lecture" in ZORA and entered with the published full text, which is the length of an article. The ZORA editorial office accepts the Conference Item even though it is not published elsewhere.

4. Which newspaper articles are unsuitable for ZORA?

Articles from newspapers that are not mentioned in the respective faculty's guide will not be included in ZORA.

5. Which dissertations or postdoctoral theses does ZORA accept?

All dissertations and postdoctoral theses that originated at an institute/clinic/center of the University of Zurich. This also includes dissertations that were written at a UZH institute or UZH/ETH dual institute but submitted to ETH or another university. In such a case, select the empty field next to the "Faculty" field.

For dissertations, please refer to the handout (PDF, 221 KB)"Dissertationen an der UZH: Publikationsformen und Aufnahme in ZORA".

New members of the University of Zurich who would like to have their previous dissertation or habilitation from another university recorded in ZORA, it is the responsibility of the institute (clinic, center) to determine whether or not the work will be added to ZORA.

6. Does ZORA also accept a newspaper article whose author is a journalist (e.g. of the NZZ) and which merely mentions names of UZH scientists without these scientists being authors of the article?

No, the researchers of the University of Zurich should be authors of newspaper articles themselves, since ZORA documents the research output of the UZH. Researchers cannot only be mentioned in the text, they must be authors themselves or at least interview partners of the article. Interviews in which UZH researchers speak directly and elaborate on their text are fine for ZORA. The interviewer (editor of the newspaper) and the interviewed researcher are then considered to be authors.

7. Can reports (research reports) be included in ZORA?

Research reports can be submitted to ZORA if they are published by an organization or a publisher. For this purpose, there is the publication category 'Published Research Report'. Internal unpublished reports, such as those prepared for a funder, are not recorded in ZORA. (Scientifically comprehensive research reports in the sense of a scientific paper that are published on the researcher's website and are openly accessible there can be submittet to ZORA as 'Scientific publication in Electronic Form').

8. Does ZORA record new editions of a book?

Yes, but only in the case of an edition whose content has been substantially modified. Reprints are not recorded in ZORA. In the case of a new edition, a new record is created in ZORA.  The edition statement is recorded in the field “Edition”.

ZORA FAQs "Bibliographic Data": How are new editions or repeated editorship recorded?

9. Does ZORA accept translations?

Pure translations without annotations are not included in ZORA. Translations with annotations are included, the translator and author of the annotations can be registered as author.

  •  Example 1, unsuitable for ZORA: Translation of "In the Temple of the Wild Geese". Verena Werner (ed.), Eduard Klopfenstein (ed.). Berlin, be.bra verlag 2008 (Japan Edition). Example in Swisscovery
  • Example 2, suitable for ZORA: Hayashi, Sho and Kaufmann, Paul: "Tanigawa Ken'ichi: On the Afterlife." Annotated translation from the Japanese, in: Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Regional Studies (Vol. 64), University of Fukui 2008. Example in ZORA