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.
New AI research tool ScienceDirect AI now available to ETH members
With ScienceDirect AI, the ETH Library offers a new AI-supported research tool that assists researchers in searching, analysing and summarising scientific literature.
AI-powered and evidence-based research with Consensus
Discover Consensus – the AI-powered research tool that analyses science-based answers from over 200 million research articles and presents them in an understandable way.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading scientific texts | 02.12.2025 | 45 min | 22 / 40 |
| Academic project and time management: from planning to publishing | 03.12.2025 - 17.12.2025 | each 165 min | 9 / 30 |
| Mastering scientific writing with AI-based tools | 04.12.2025 | 3h 45min | 0 / 25 |
| How to go Open Access | 09.12.2025 | 60 min | 22 / 30 |
| Revising scientific texts | 09.12.2025 | 45 min | 31 / 40 |
| Preventing plagiarism – citing correctly: also in times of AI | 10.12.2025 | 105 min | 7 / 20 |
| Scientific illustrations – visualising research data (German) | 10.12.2025 | 60 min | 4 / 16 |
| Argumentation in scientific texts | 11.12.2025 | 45 min | 31 / 40 |
| Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 15.12.2025 | 75 min | 3 / 4 |
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.