ETH Library
What you can expect from us:
Information and Literature: Whether you require printed or digital formats or physical objects, we provide you with whatever you need for your research, teaching or degree. At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), we provide you with freely accessible specialist literature, collections, data and specimens in a clearly structured manner, and also show you the available contents of the physical collections. We also have quiet reading, study and workspaces.
With its website, the ETH Library offers a central entry point for all users. It provides access to all platforms with digital documents, search tools, licensed electronic resources, physical holdings, the collections and archives, and key external sources.
external page ETH Library @ swisscovery
Publishing, registering and archiving: We run the Research Collection as a repository for your publications and their dissemination, management and documentation, and offer specialised advice on data management and publishing issues, for example data management planning, open access and long-term archiving. We provide additional support for publishing in open-access journals by covering the expenses.
Publishing and registering
Archiving
We digitise collections in cooperative projects and provide you with our expertise on digitisation and information organisation. As an active partner in integrated scientific knowledge production, we develop and provide infrastructures and tools that cover the entire scientific value creation chain in cooperation with internal and external partners and by participating in expert committees and associations.
Projects
Partner institutions
Knowledge and Learning: Our exhibitions, online platforms, guided tours and co-creation campaigns, where we actively involve our customers, take the know-how of ETH Zurich to the public. Our courses, workshops and webinars teach you skills in conducting searches, scientific writing, reference management, open access and data management. We also offer individual advice on all these topics.
Courses and workshops
Dr Rafael Ball is head of the ETH Library.
The Head Office is responsible for the overall management of the ETH Library and is thus the highest authorising instance for all management processes.
In addition to the director, the management includes the directorate staff, the marketing and communications staff and the secretariat.
Carina Felgner is head the Corporate Services section.
The Corporate Services section supports the ETH Library with human, financial and IT resources. It is responsible for the DigiCenter, facility management and security, IT procurement, as well as process and quality management.
Pascalia Boutsiouci and Dr David Johann jointly head the Research Services Section.
The section Research Support Services deals with a wide range of customer-related tasks and services, particularly for researchers at ETH Zurich and the ETH’s Executive Board. It takes the lead in acquiring and licensing printed and electronic media and is responsible for the product management of the search portal (Primo).
Markus Joachim is head of the Information and Learning Environments Section.
The Information and Learning Environments section is responsible for general customer contact in the sense of the ETH Library being a central point of contact for information and training services, as well as the provision and management of library premises, learning environments and information media.
Michael Gasser is head of the Collections and Archives Section.
The Collections and Archives section is responsible for the collections and archives of the ETH Library and the joint activities of the collections and archives of ETH Zurich (Collections and Archives Committee).