Interfaces and downloads
On this page you will find an overview of all the ways that the freely available data of the ETH Library’s holdings can be accessed.
Depending on which data are relevant to your research, we offer direct access to the records in external page ETH Library @ swisscovery, access via the respective platform or download of predefined data packages.
API for direct access to library resources
The RESTful API ETH Library Resource Information Bus (RIB) provides direct access to library resources independent of ETH Library @ swisscovery. It is documented according to the OpenAPI 3.0 specification.
Examples of dynamic queries (output in JSON) for resources
Bibliographische Metadaten der ETH-Bibliothek
- All bibliographic metadata
- All journals
- All titles published before 1900
- Primary literature by Max Frisch
- Secondary literature on Thomas Mann
Indexed archival holdings
Digital copies
The ETH Library’s digitised resources are available on a variety of platforms with digital documents . A growing number of these platforms support external page IIIF-compliant data export.
Specific data packets
Individual, specially prepared metadata sets are provided in the form of compressed ZIP files.
- ETH Zurich University Archives: Download Hs 1056 Correspondence of C. G. Jung (ZIP, 788 KB)
- Max Frisch Archive: Download Performances of Frisch plays since 1945 (XLSX, 83 KB)
- Thomas Mann Archives: Download Correspondence of Thomas Mann (ZIP, 736 KB)
