Research

• :  no longer available
•   IPODLAS NFR48: BSCW: no longer available
  
  Any afp access is restricted to registered users only
•   ForLand / ForClim:   Data: afp   Models: afp   Simulation Results: afp   FCDataBase afp
  
•   Cervus:   Data: afp   Models: afp   Simulation Results: afp
  
•    LBM:   Data: afp   Models: afp   Simulation Results: afp /Users/afischli/polybox/af-mf/House Sweden/ Stor-Ullen 15, Hagfors, Sweden, af (original)/Identification

Literature

• Your personal literature data base:   Get the starter kit    
  
• Libraries:   ETH Bibliothek     Green Library     ETH Spezialbibliotheken     Zentralbibliothek
  
• Literature Search:   swisscovery     Research Collection (ETH)     Publishing in Research Collection     Order forms
      E-Periodica (offers retrodigitized journals)     e-pics (ETH)     e-rara     Open Access UniZH     Inter-Research
  
• Literature search with ETHZ privileges:     ISI Web of Knowledge (ISI WOS)     Advanced Search     ISI WOS Search Help     J Search     Interlibrary loan (Fernleihe)

Useful

Our servers:

• SysEcol Server:  se-server (afp)   or   Description and access hints: Mac hints
• Sun Unix Hosts:   atitlan.ethz.ch   huron.ethz.ch   (access restricted, use ssh or afp (Apple Filing Protocol))   Description and access hints: Unix hints
• Systems Ecology simulation server cluster:     superior.ethz.ch   michigan.ethz.ch   ontario.ethz.ch   nipigon.ethz.ch   malawi.ethz.ch   (access restricted, use ssh or afp (Apple Filing Protocol))   Description and access hints: Unix hints
• Server Room (CAB)

On-line references:   Dictionary (with audio)   Translate   Ultralingua Onlinedictionaries   Guide to Grammar and Writing   IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe; replace the former EURODICAUTOM) (European Languages)   Leo (German/English)   Idiome übersetzen   German/English Dictionary of Idioms   translate block of text (Yahoo! Babel Fish)   Abkürzungen   hyperdictionary   babylon   Merriam-Webster (NOTE: We have on CD electronic versions of all main Merriam-Webster reference books. Install them on your machine!)
Wikipedia   Open Source Encyclopedia   Encyclopedia Britannica (includes a Thesaurus)   SciFinder (Chemical American Society)   ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)   Pronounciation of biological names   Project Gutenberg   How stuff works

Organisation & Administration

• Online-Dienste für Angestellte ETHZ     Dienstleistungen für Mitarbeitende     Informatikdienste im Überblick     Kommunikation ETHZ  useful URLs at ETH
• Setup your E-mail client (general configuration hints, Apple Mail configuration, General Hints) as soon as you have got your main entry ETH Zurich password.
• CMN (phone desk, mobile)
• D-UWIS Knowledge Base (All IT Services:     ID (Informatikdienste)
  
  
• D-UWIS Internals     Gebäudebereich UN (Universitätsstr.)     Belegungsplan CHN P12     doodle
  
  
• Daten Klassifikationssystem     IT Richtlinien     Richtlinien Cloudnutzung
  
  
• ETHZ Personalabteilung     Formulare     Unsere Betreuerin: K. Vauthier, 2-8670     Our contact: R. Oertli, 2-7097 (oertli@pa.ethz.ch, Turnerstrasse 1 / TUR C 24 8092 Zürich)     Mutation von Adressen und Personalien
  
  
• Finanzdienste     Finanzreglemente
  
  
• Studienadministration   eDoz   Important edoz hints   Semestertermine   Plagiate   Ethical conduct
  
  
• WEB-Shops ETH Zürich   Büromaterial   ETH Merchandising Store   Immobilien Services   Schlüsselantrag

Setting up & maintaining your working place

• Hausdienst (ETHZ)
• Computer Ergonomics (working long hours on a computer can damage your health!)
• Setting your passwords (AAI, formerly nethz)     handling of certificates
• UTP connections in your office
• Software for system ecologists all needed hints and links including those to the corporate design of ETH Zurich
• How to hookup to the NET (hints how to setup and configure your machine to the infrastructure of ETH Zurich)
  Using WiFi (WLAN)
  Using VPN
  Using e-Mail on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad)   CMN (Corporate Mobile Network ETH Zurich)
• Network Access to the ETHZ e.g. via VPN (public, private), WebVPN, AirPort (W-LAN), IPASS (while you're on the road), Cablecom (Hispeed)
• Printing: CHN E19 (black&white), CHN E34 (color) (both printers are VPP printers; Installation hints: Snow Leopard, Mavericks)
• Proxy services (use it to access papers freely)     private vpn into VPZ UWIS (VPZ - Virtual Private Zone, D-UWIS - Department Umweltwissenschaften)
• All IT services
• Using from Address Book LDAP to retrieve ETH Zurich staff data
• Courses offered by ides.ethz.ch
• Bachelor, Master D-USYS, PhD D-USYS    
  
  
• Personal literature data base software (SE starter kit: FileMaker & EndNote)     How to use it (see link below)
• EndNote SE Add Ons (connections, filters, output styles etc.)     EndNote  (Updates, User's contributions etc.)   BibDesk (Andreas' Tutorial)
  
  
• ETH Mail lists
• DataQuest  main partner of ETH for Macs (Boehmer: 044 360 3913 - Computer Takeaway)  letec  ArchiTronic (Kd.-Nr. ?)  ARP DATACON Versandhandel (Kd.-Nr. 1002642)  ETHZ Occasionsbörse  Reparaturen und Wartung von Hard- und Software  Reparaturstellen
  
  
• Backup: netbackup   report

"How to" Hints

• How to hookup to the NET (see above)
  
  
• How to maintain a web site   (start here to learn html, for general hints, and to learn how to maintain this one)
  
  
• How to write   How to use LiteratureMY
  
  
• Our anonymous ftp site (this link may not work with your browser and it is best to use a FTP client such as Fetch) for outgoing large files (> 2 MB, for some recipient even > 1 MB is too much) (don't attach to E-Mail, use sftp instead)
  To upload or delete files use this URL: sftp://atitlan.ethz.ch/FTPRoot/pub/docs/se/. E.g. paste the underlined text into a Fetch dialog when you ask for a new connection. Note, the access is restriced and requires to be a registered systems ecology member.
  
  
• How to archive your data and files   Digitalisieren, sichern, archivieren (DigiCenter, ETH Bibliothek)   kost-ceco (Koordinationsstelle für die dauerhafte Archivierung elektronischer Unterlagen)   KaD (Katalog archivischer Dateiformate)   Archives of ETH Zurich
  
  
• Helpdesk 2-7777   (Mo 10 - 18 Uhr, Di - Do 8 - 18 Uhr, Fr 8 - 17 Uhr)     Service notifications     IT Services ETHZ     Confluence ETH Zurich (access restricted)     IT Knowledge Base
• Informatikdienste im Überblick
• Mac hints     Unix hints     Sun administration hints     Standard extensions     Mac FAQs    
• IT Security     multi-factor authentication (MFA)   Hints on MFA
• Trouble Shooting or MacFixit may know an answer or offer help to your current problem