News for students

This interesting series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and the Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich will introduce you to the diverse aspects of research data management.

The ETH Library will be accessible again at all locations starting 3 August 2020. Please note the opening hours for the individual locations.

Training on Data Management (in German) on Tuesday 28 November from 17.30 to 19.00.

Wir suchen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer, die gemeinsam mit uns in einem Workshop die Services von morgen kreieren.

BrowZine schafft einen neuartigen Zugriff auf lizenzierte und frei zugängliche wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften der ETH-Bibliothek.

The Research Collection, ETH Zurich's new publication platform, contains the university’s research output. It serves as a single point of access for members of ETH Zurich to document, publish and archive their academic results.

Entering publications in the institutional bibliography or publishing via the open access repository during this period will not be possible.

Panel discussion and Wikipedia edit-a-thon at ETH Zurich. The relationship between academia and Wikipedia is ambivalent and not without its sceptics.

The video journal JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) publishes papers and academic experiments in the form of video recordings.

To mark the opening, a competition will be held on 20 to 24 February. Visit us in the HWW building and win fantastic prizes!

Tools, methods and strategies all around research and publishing

ETH-Bibliothek is testing a tool for searching journals until the end of February.

The course dates for January to June have now been published.

As of now, more than 600 eBooks on topics such as Windows, Office, CAD, image processing or programming can be downloaded as PDFs.

In der ETH E-Collection veröffentlichte Publikationen aus EU-Projekten erscheinen neu automatisch in den Projektreporting-Applikationen der Europäischen Kommission: in der Projektdatenbank CORDIS und im Participant Portal der Europäischen Kommission.

To coincide with the inauguration of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, we present our resources grouped into themes.

New video journal licensed by ETH-Bibliothek.

The course dates for January to June have now been published.

Are you looking for Team-Working-Spaces? Come to the Grüne Bibliothek!

ETH Zurich's Earth Science Collections display approximately 1,200 minerals, fossils and rocks in 3D in their catalogue on the platform ETH E-Pics.

Books from the well-known series Detail on the topics of construction, building services, building studies and design are now also available as e-books.

The legendary series Bauwelt Fundamente on the history and theory of architecture and urban design can now also be accessed online.

Browse the Knowledge Portal on your tablet. The results pages, user account and e-Shelf now also react responsively and adapt flexibly to different monitor sizes.

The database Detail Inspiration provides information on more than 3,000 example construction projects from the last 50 years, which were published as articles in the journal "Detail".

Broader range for architects, designers and art scientists.

Scientific findings from the field of plants.

Essential guide on all aspects of publishing.

Over 500 new e-books on Engineering.

The course dates for January till June have now been published.

Web technologies never stand still. And nor do we. Over the last few months, we have been busy making our Knowledge Portal more user-friendly.

We reveal tips and tricks in only 15 minutes – from databases and reference management to open access.

Temporarily, the availability of the latest print issues of science journals cannot be guaranteed in full due to delivery problems on the part of a supplier.

Members of ETH Zurich learn all about the topic of open access at two events.

ETH-Bibliothek offers the article search on the Knowledge Portal via a new service-provider: the Technical Information Centre of Denmark's DADS database has been replaced with the interdisciplinary Primo Central Index by the company Ex Libris.

Three more providers extend ETH-Bibliothek's range of e-books in the subjects sustainability, environmental policy, technology, mechanical engineering, garden, animals, and nature.

As of 1 September you can return documents from ETH-Bibliothek, NEBIS circulation network and Zentralbibliothek at the information office at level E of the Main Building.

Over 1,000 objects can be studied in Baubibliothek's Material Collection, offering visitors the opportunity to experience woods, metals, rocks, synthetics or materials first hand.

The course dates for September till December have now been published.

On Thursday, 22 May a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 18.45, where you will be given a brief introduction to the ETH-Bibliothek.

On Wednesday, 21 May a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about reference management using Mendeley.

On Thursday, 15 May a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about Web of Science and Scopus.

On Wednesday, 7 May a public and free training course tailored to the research needs of architects and construction engineers will take place from 17.30 to 19.00.

On Tuesday, 6 May a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about using E-Readers and Tablet PCs.

On Thursday, 24 April a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about using the iPad for study and work (advanced level).

On Thursday, 10 April a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about writing scientific reports.

A partial makeover of the Knowledge Portal will make it easier for people in search of information to navigate their way around our library services.

On Thursday, 3 April a public and free training course, in collaboration with the Zentralbibliothek Zurich, will take place from 16.15 to 17.45 about reference management using Citavi.

On Wednesday, 19 March a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about using the iPad for study and work (basic level).

Specially for master students at the start of the semester: find out all you need to know about our services, searches across all resources in the Knowledge Portal as well as the multidisciplinary databases Web of Science and Scopus.

On Thursday, 6 March a public and free webinar will take place from 16.30 to 17.30 about Web of Science and Scopus. You will learn, for example, about content, functionality, citation analysis and data personalisation.

On Tuesday, 4 March a public and free course will take place from 17.30 to 18.45, where you will be given a brief introduction to the ETH-Bibliothek.

On Monday, 3 March a public and free training course, in collaboration with the Zentralbibliothek Zurich, will take place from 16.15 to 17.45 about reference management using Citavi.

On Thursday, 27 February a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00, about finding scientific information.

Over 55,000 folding maps from ETH-Bibliothek can now be loaned throughout the NEBIS network and consulted outside the Collections and Archives reading room regardless of the opening times.

On Wednesday, 5 February a public and free training course will take place from 17.30 to 19.00 about reference management using Mendeley.

Since 12 January the platform Web of Science has been showing off its new user interface. The databases can now be browsed using an optimised search engine.

The course dates for January till June have now been published.

The main building at ETH Zurich will be open on Sundays as of January 2014.