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Shortly after its publication, Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” was translated into several languages. How does a translator approach the novel 100 years later? A short video provides answers.  

For the most popular leisure activity in Switzerland: The Green Library offers a large selection of hiking guides for viewing and borrowing. Visit the collection on site or virtually.

“Blätter der Thomas Mann Gesellschaft Zürich” has been published since 1958 and is the oldest journal dedicated to Thomas Mann in the German-speaking world. The ETH Library now provides digital access on E-Periodica.

From a musicology and media studies perspective, “The Magic Mountain” shows the line of development from early gramophones to today’s headphones.

Are you conducting a thematic literature search and would like to delve deeper into the holdings of the ETH Library? Then you should try out the new AI-supported EXPLORE feature.

The ETH Library converts your print materials and electronic documents into accessible PDF/UA formats.

Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain” turns one hundred. To mark the anniversary, the Thomas Mann Archive is producing a video series that places “The Magic Mountain” in the technological-historical context of ETH Zurich and points to its contemporary relevance.

Discover the new additions from a wide range of subject areas in full text on E-Periodica, the ETH Library's platform for digitised Swiss journals. We hope you enjoy browsing, researching, reading and sharing!  

AstroRara shows even more astronomical phenomena

The new theme table at the ETH Library shows the secrets of the known and the unknown.

The national negotiations between swissuniversities and Elsevier and also with Taylor & Francis did not lead to an agreement by mid-December 2023. The ETH Library, together with the other universities affected, is preparing for a situation without a contract from January 2024.

Discover the new full-text additions from a wide variety of specialist fields on E-Periodica, the ETH Library’s online platform for digitised Swiss periodicals. We hope you enjoy browsing, researching, reading and sharing!

Access to the comprehensive primary sources in the Wiley Digital Archives will provide new insights, especially for those interested in environmental sciences and scientific research.

Just under four years after the launch of AstroRara, users can now discover new content and a revamped design.

Full access to Oxford University Press journals.

You can now order more easily and get a better overview of your loans.

Take advantage of the comprehensive access to podcasts about the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

Limited ordering options 12–13 November 2022.

Orders are subject to restrictions from 17.00 to 19.00.

Orders are subject to restrictions from 17.00 to 20.00.

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Maps as part of the digital transformation: discover the ETH Library’s ever-expanding range of electronic and georeferenced maps available for your use.

The ETH Library recommends freely available background information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

AstroRara offers digital and interactive access to three new works. Historical publications on eclipses, retrograde motion and comet tails are now available for use as multimedia.

Discover the new full-text additions from various specialist fields on E-Periodica, the online platform for digitised Swiss periodicals.

Discover the new digitised full-text periodicals from St. Gallen on E-Periodica, the online platform for digitised Swiss periodicals.

Members of ETH Zurich can now find out everything about the plant Arabidopsis thaliana on The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) database.

The ETH Library now offers collection and consultation services in the ETH main building at the service desk in the InfoCenter.

With Dimensions Analytics, the ETH Library provides members of ETH Zurich with an interdisciplinary database that allows for a comprehensive view of scientific publications.

Members of ETH Zurich now have free access to the online version of the leading American daily newspaper The New York Times.

The LibKey Nomad browser extension gives you direct access to the PDF of journal articles.

There is a new highlight in the Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Aids: the custom-made Gömböc G 1854. The gift is a tangible piece of 20 years of scientific history.

Discover the new full-text additions from various specialist fields on E-Periodica, the online platform for digitised Swiss periodicals.

Electronic and geo-referenced maps such as the “Baumkataster Basel-Stadt” (2020), the “Plan der Stadt Zürich nach Breitinger” (1867) and other maps are now available for use.

The Global Health database provides rapid access to both standard works and current specialist articles on public health around the world – and it’s free for members of ETH Zurich.

Members of ETH Zurich now have access to Cambridge University Press (CUP) textbooks, a rich source of knowledge and information across a broad range of disciplines.

Our oldest image catalogue on E-Pics celebrates its 15th anniversary! It took a lot of preparatory work, numerous attempts and the courage to try something new before the catalogue could be launched on 6 March 2006.

The E-Pics platform provides comprehensive online holdings of digitised images. Discover a wide range of images in the digitised old books collection of the ETH Library.

The long wait is over. The Image Archive of the ETH Library has now made its oldest films available online for research buffs. Exciting historical expeditions, experiments and much more are waiting to be explored.

Discover the new additions from various subject areas in full text on E-Periodica, the online platform for digitised Swiss journals.

HSTalks is a platform that provides access to animated, audiovisual lectures. The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection offers a wide range of talks covering various scientific topics.

Get information on the new Read and Publish agreements with Cambridge University Press, Karger, Sage, Taylor & Francis and Trans Tech Publications.

The most comprehensive online source for medical professionals is now available to members of ETH Zurich. Continually updated, AccessMedicine offers access to all essential clinical knowledge and relevant medical research. An invaluable resource for private study.

Members of ETH Zurich can now stream a selection of European and international art-house films.

Precise, comprehensive surveying and analysis of public opinion serves as the foundation for quantitative social research. With Roper iPoll, members of ETH Zurich now have access to the world’s largest collection of public-opinion data – the basis for sound research at the highest level.

The Online Historical Dictionary of Philosophy is one of the most comprehensive, significant and successful humanities publication projects of the modern German-speaking academic world.

Additional online journals from various subject areas such as medicine, cartography and humanities are now available via ETH Library’s Search Portal.

Find subject-related contents for studies, teaching and research

Are you looking for appropriate image material to illustrate a presentation or publication? Search for, view and download images on E-Pics

Developing, spreading and networking knowledge: the six CABI Compendia provide comprehensive bioscientific information for use in academic studies, practical applications and professional development.

Free access to digitized Swiss journals or those relating to Switzerland.

Head to e-rara.ch and explore the amazing range of information available on volcanology in the Gottfried Immanuel Friedlaender collection.

Our subject specialists have made a selection of e-books, platforms and MOOCs for you

Neuer Zugang zur derzeit umfangreichsten ornithologischen Plattform Birds of the World (BOW) für ETH-Angehörige. 

The ETH Library gives members of the ETH Zurich an overview of freely accessible e-resources concerning COVID-19.

The Wiley Digital Archives programme gives you easy, reliable access to unique primary sources.

Architecture and graphic novels – do the two really go together? Of course! Graphic novels combine art, literature and architecture.

e-rara.ch is currently home to more than 78,000 digitized books. Since 1 February 2020, e-rara.ch has also used optical character recognition (OCR) for books from the eighteenth century. 

A new module helps students and teachers in medicine and movement sciences to better understand and explain anatomy and physiology.

Would you like to learn more about basic body functions, physiological processes or common diseases? Two 3D applications make medical studies more vivid.

swissuniversities has reached agreements with publishing houses Wiley and Elsevier for 2020. Scholars may face restrictions on Springer Nature publications, however.

Follow the ETH Library Advent calendar on Instagram.

New user interface for integrated access to references, substances and reactions in the field of chemistry

Viel mehr als nur Papier!

Die wichtigsten E-Books auf einen Blick

Neue Datenbank im Bereich Verhaltensforschung und Psychologie

15'000 Werke zum freien Download

Abschluss des Projekts «Massenerschliessung und Retrokonversion»

Neues Angebot des Thomas-Mann-Archivs

Das Bildarchiv hat die Marke einer halben Million Bilder geknackt

Angehörige der ETH Zürich haben neu Zugang zu JAMAevidence. JAMAevidence ermöglicht den Zugriff auf Ressourcen für evidenzbasierte Medizin.

Es sind weitere Ressourcen von E-Pics im Suchportal auffindbar: Neu sind die Inhalte aus dem E-Pics Bildkatalog "Ex meis libris: Provenienz alter Drucke" im Suchportal recherchierbar.

Im Suchportal finden Sie ab sofort nicht nur Dokumente, sondern auch ausgewählte Informationen über die ETH-Bibliothek und ihre Dienstleistungen.

Die ETH-Bibliothek geht neue Weg in der Erwerbung elektronischer Ressourcen! vorerst über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren wird der Zugriff auf über 32’000 E-Books der Cambridge University Press ermöglicht.

Angehörige der ETH Zürich haben neu online Zugriff auf interdisziplinäre Originalmaterialien zur amerikanischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte der New York Academy of Science zurück bis zu ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1817.

Neu lassen sich die gesamten Online-Verzeichnisse des Hochschularchivs der ETH Zürich, des Thomas-Mann-Archivs und des Max Frisch-Archivs auch über das Schweizer Archivportal Archives Online recherchieren.