Doctoral theses, reports

The ETH Library is at your disposal for research on doctoral theses of ETH Zurich as well as other colleges and universities. In addition, you will find numerous reports (research reports) in either printed form or on microfiche.

Doctoral theses

At the ETH Library you will find all doctoral theses of ETH Zurich and selected doctoral theses of other institutions.

Holdings

All ETH Zurich doctoral theses are available in both printed and electronic form. The full text of most electronic doctoral theses can be accessed. In other cases, only the abstract is accessible. The doctoral theses of other colleges and universities are only available in printed form.

Searching and use

Doctoral theses of ETH Zurich can be searched for on external page ETH Library @ swisscovery. There you will find a link to the electronic version.

You can also use the ETH Zurich Research Collection document server to search for doctoral theses of ETH Zurich. This platform offers the following functions:

• Full text search
• Browse by author, organisational unit, document type and year
• Download abstracts and/or full texts

Doctoral theses from other colleges and universities

To do this, please use the catalogues of the respective libraries. Various colleges and universities operate document servers that provide access to doctoral theses in electronic form.

Reports

Reports are research reports issued by public and private institutions.

Printed reports

Printed reports from domestic and foreign research institutions in the ETH Library’s extensive collection can be searched and borrowed from external page ETH Library @ swisscovery.

Some of ETH Zurich’s reports have an electronic version that you can access freely through the Research Collection.

Reports on microfiche

At the ETH Library, you also have access to a collection of around two million reports on microfiche.

• Topics: technology and natural sciences, in particular energy technology and nuclear research, along with social, economic and political science subject areas
• Period: from 1910 to the end of the 1990s
• Origin: mainly the USA, European countries and Switzerland

Search the external page National Technical Reports Library (NTIS) database (access only within the ETH Zurich network) and order the report you want from the ETH Library by following the “Order article” link.