Library, Publishing and IT Services

ETH Library provides extensive electronic and physical resources and supports your research group with services such as publishing, open access, research data management, or subject specific databases and sources. Get in touch and find out what we can do for you.

ETH Library @ swisscovery allows you to access over 30 million books, series, journals and non-book materials, as well as billions of electronic articles. You can use ETH Library @ swisscovery to search the holdings of all ETH Zurich libraries, as well as more than 470 libraries across Switzerland. It even is possible to search within the billions of articles by selecting “swisscovery” instead of “swisscovery without CDI” in the search field.

ETH Library offers a comprehensive range of services on all aspects of publishing.

• Data management and policies (managing research data, research funding etc.)
• Publishing and registering (ORCID, ISBN allocation, DOI registration, open access helpdesk and trainings etc.)
• Archiving (Digital long-term preservation, Image Archive etc.)
• Information management, writing (reference management, analysing scientific output and impact etc.)
• Digitisation

The Research Collection - Repository for Publications and Research Data is ETH Zurich’s publication platform. University members can
• publish their scientific papers, theses, presentations, reports etc. open access
• archive their research data and make them accessible to the public.

Furthermore, the Research Collection records all publications produced at ETH Zurich and serves as a source for publication lists in the academic reporting and on ETH Zurich’s websites.

Proper research data management is a key prerequisite for effective data sharing and publishing, which in turn increases the visibility of one’s scholarly work and thus is likely to increase citation rates.

Funding organizations like the Swiss National Science Foundation or Horizon 2020 mandate data management plans for projects they fund. The plans are sometimes already required in the proposal and should be updated throughout the project.

Learn more about data management responsibilities for researchers based in Switzerland.

IT Services offers special assistance for new professors with each research group's IT workspace, including help with:

Research and Science IT Assistance
e-learning: Educational Development and Technology (LET)
IT procurement / purchases
servers
storage
back-up
databases
network
Application «eDoz»
Computer Lab Reservations
Conferences and Events
Multimedia: Video Conferencing, Lecture Recording

For assistance, IT can be obtained either through the

ITS Service Desk | Create a ticket for help (SmartDesk Portal)

or by contacting each department's

protected pageIT Support Office (listed by Department)

The High Performance Computing (HPC) group of the IT Services (ID HPC) is responsible for the central computing facilities of ETH. The HPC Team will be happy to evaluate your computing needs (hardware and software) with you and find the best way to fulfil those needs.

Websites / Resources
Central Computing Facilities, Data Management and Hardware

Scientific IT Services (SIS) is a division of ETH IT Services. The division is comprised of three groups:

High Performance Computing (HPC). The focus of this group is to provide first-class HPC resources to ETH researchers.
Scientific Software and Data Management (SSDM). The focus of this group is to write complex software systems for data acquisition, analysis and research data management.
Research Informatics (RI). The focus of this group is to assist researchers by providing solutions for data management, processing and analysis.

Contact
HPC Manager

Another place of high performance computing is the supercomputing systems of the external pageSwiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS. This is available to all Swiss universities and research institutions, providing also computing services for industry. A transparent review process conducted by an independent committee of specialists regulates the allocation of projects for the external pageUser Lab.

Access to the world-class compute and storage HPC resources without having to go through any peer-review process is possible with payment on the external pagecscs2go platform.