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The CYBATHLON 2020 offers a special kind of competition experience. In its three-​part video campaign, the ETH Library shows a person affected who defies fate with courage and high-​tech.

How do you like the new ETH Library website? We would love to hear your opinion.

Extended opening hours and services

The ETH Library has now licensed Zotero Institution for the ETH community.

We have just published our new courses and workshops on our website. They cover a wide range of interesting topics. From September, we will be hosting many autumn semester webinars, courses and workshops again.

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Female students, researchers, professors – they are no longer a rare sight, but the road to gender equality at ETH Zurich has been long and often bumpy. Explora illuminates the exciting history of women at ETH: from courageous and persistent trailblazers to the dedicated representatives of an autonomous women’s movement.

New open-access resources in the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library

Explora starts a new format. In five episodes, the mini-series reports on an ambitious project that combines art and science: The creation of alternative habitats for corals through digital production methods – an equally artistically and ecologically-scientifically exciting experiment.

The ETH Library in the main building and the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library are open again from 8 June 2020.

Are you short on time, but still keen to learn about tools that could help you in your research? Do you have questions about a particular ETH Library service?

From 08.06.2020, ETH Library will also be physically open to its customers again – albeit with restrictions due to the necessary protective measures.

Tandem learning is all about learning a language and talking to another person. Fortunately this can be done online.

“The Materiality of Knowledge”: Inventoried and available to all those interested, ETH Library is re-opening a treasure trove of collector’s items featuring historical and contemporary objects from teaching and research. 

ETH Library is offering digital services and delivery of media to members of ETH Zurich during the closing period.

ETH Library is offering free delivery of media to members of ETH Zurich during the closing period.

Do you have questions about reference management with Mendeley or Zotero? Are you unsure whether Google is really sufficient for searching for new sources or would you like to know more about search strategies in map portals? 

The Self-Access Centre Hönggerberg of the Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich is now running its courses online. 

For the time being, ETH Library is closed at all its locations until and including Sunday, 19 April 2020

Architecture and graphic novels – do the two really go together? Of course! Graphic novels combine art, literature and architecture. Visual representations depict travel through futuristic worlds, adventures in ominous-looking cities or lonely life in a megalopolis.

Are you planning a stay abroad? During this introductory meeting you will get to know how to improve your language skills in time for your stay abroad – alone or with a study partner. We will assist you in the following languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish 

Learn a language together with a study partner! You’ll define your own programme and set your own learning goals. The Self-Access Centre Hönggerberg will support you throughout the learning process and help you to find suitable study materials and activities.

Explore historical astronomical illustrations interactively with the new app 

Do you need a break from studying or want to improve your foreign language skills? Then you have come to the right place in the book club!  

ETH Library now also responds to your questions and requests via WhatsApp. 

The clearer look of the ETH Library search portal will ensure you can access the information you need even faster. 

During this introductory meeting on 20 November 2019, you will receive advice on language learning with a study partner. 

You want to acquire a language certificate in English or Spanish?

EXTRAordinary! An event organised by Hönggerberg Self-Access Centre

Viel mehr als nur Papier!  

At the UZH and ETH Zurich Language Center’s Self-Access Centre Hönggerberg, you can also meet every week during the semester break to learn languages in small groups.

From the Search Portal straight onto ETH Library’s website  

ETH Library is looking for your ideas for promotional items. Be it a tube scarf, mini hole puncher or a sewing kit - which products or freebies would make your university or everyday life easier or be beneficial in your free time?  

We demonstrate how you can search for information efficiently and manage literature. Research associates receive know-how about open access and research data management in workshops.

ETH Library is expanding its range of promotional items: Which products or freebies would make your university or everyday life easier or be beneficial in your free time?  

Submit your ideas and win: What do you feel is a challenge for you in everyday university life? Are there any future services provided by ETH Library that could help you overcome those challenges?

Putting the finishing touches to an idea but you don’t have the right tool at hand? ETH Library togehter with Student Project House now loans out portable electric tools, complete with all the accessories for your project. These include pad sanders, impact screwdrivers or hammer drills.

ETH Library is searching for ideas to improve its existing services and develop new ones. We are looking for our innovative spirit and creative input!

Geodata offers a wide range of application fields: for instance, maps and 3D visualisations can be produced, changes in the landscape and the cityscape visualised, or terrain and climate models analysed.

You can now search for videos from ETH Zurich’s Videoportal on ETH Library’s Search Portal. The Videoportal comprises 17,000 recordings of events and lectures that were produced by ETH Zurich’s Multimedia Services and can be viewed on the Videoportal.

Experience how old documents are transcribed and images georeferenced; gain exclusive glimpses into Max Frisch's notes; discover highlights from ETH Zurich's archives on famous figures such as Einstein or Pauli; or find out more about river engineering in Switzerland and the architect Gottfried Semper.

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.

The latest editions of the important and popular textbooks published by Pearson are now available as e-books.

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.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID for academic authors

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.

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.

Training course on Thursday, 12 December