News and courses
All you need to know about the latest offers, acquisitions and services as well as upcoming events. You can read the latest news, search for stories in the archive or subscribe to our RSS feeds to make sure you never miss a thing.
Don’t miss out – GenAI Challenge: Share Your Best Practices!
The ETH Library invites students and staff to share innovative uses of generative AI. You can win great prizes.
Swissdox@LiRI-Tutorial: Search, analyse and visualise media systematically
In the tutorial on 31 March 2025 we will present the optimal use of Swissdox@LiRi.
Events
Our doors are open to everyone. Come see our exhibits, take one of our public tours, or plan a private tour of our archives or collections for groups of five or more. Researchers and science lovers are invited to attend our conferences and podium discussions.
Courses and workshops
We hold courses and workshops that are open to the public and cover topics such as information research, reference management and scientific writing as well as research data management and open access.
| Title | Date | Duration | No. Places available/total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presenting with impact | 19.03.2025 - 02.04.2025 | each 165 min | 8 / 25 |
| Secure handling of confidential and strictly confidential research data (Research Data Management 5/7) | 02.04.2025 | 2.5 h Workshop |
20 / 35 |
| Mastering scientific writing with AI-based tools | 08.04.2025 | 3h 45min | 0 / 25 |
| Open Access and Data Publishing (Research Data Management 6/7) | 09.04.2025 | 3.5 h Workshop |
25 / 35 |
| Zotero – Reference management | 09.04.2025 | 60 min | 19 / 30 |
| GeoVITe - Exploring practices for research geodata | 09.04.2025 | 60 min | 14 / 15 |
| Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 14.04.2025 | 75 min | 4 / 4 |
| Zotero – Reference management (German) | 15.04.2025 | 60 min | 29 / 30 |
| Citizen science: harnessing the power of citizen-generated data (Research Data Management 7/7) | 16.04.2025 | 2 h Workshop |
20 / 35 |
| Designing effective scientific posters | 16.04.2025 | 2h 45min | 11 / 20 |
| How to go Open Access | 16.04.2025 | 60 min | 26 / 30 |
Blogs and social media
The ETH Library regularly updates different blogs with content from our collections, archives and holdings: from highlights from the archive to the latest results of crowdsourcing initiatives all the way to multimedia stories posted on the storytelling platform Explora.
On social media, we share our knowledge on a variety of different platforms – from Facebook to Instagram to YouTube – in order to promote dialogue both within and outside of ETH Zurich.