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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.

Whether you're a lark or a night owl, you can organise your working hours even more flexibly with us. The GESS Library's popular Open Library programme is being extended by two hours from 07.00 to 09.00.

The Earth Sciences Library will close permanently on 30 April 2024. Once ETH Zurich gives the green light, the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life will move into the building (construction period 2024/2025). The library team and its full range of services will remain available to you.

The ETH Library is striving for a barrier-free environment. This is part of the ETH-wide programme "Barrier-free at ETH Zurich".

Mandy Boontanrart's research is meant to reach those who need it most. With the help of Barbara Hirschmann from the ETH Library, she is one step further.

How can Anne Abels preserve her research data for researchers even after her doctorate at ETH Zurich? Thanks to Mohamed El-Saad from the ETH Library, she found a good way.

Yurena Seguí Femenias wants to stay up to date with scientific developments even after her doctorate at ETH Zurich. Together with David Johann from the ETH Library, she has found a solution.

The facilities at the GESS Library are now also available to use from 5.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Design your perfect learning space and take part in the competition. You will be in with a chance of winning a CHF 50 Swiss Book Voucher.

Design your individual learning environment to suit your needs: whether for individual learning, group work or smaller events with up to 20 people.

Take part in the second short online survey on the ETH Library’s current image campaign and win a book voucher worth CHF 50.

The Citizen Science Knowledge Center is hosted by the SDU Library and is striving for a shift toward open science. Learn about the strategies and thinking behind it at the 17:15 Colloquium on 24 February 2022.

Take part in a short online survey on the ETH Library’s current image campaign and win a book voucher worth CHF 50.

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

The award is a further step in the ETH Library's efforts to increase openness. Currently, seven out of a possible 15 criteria are met.

Access to the media of the ETH Library requires a swisscovery registration and a SWITCH edu-ID.

Media that were borrowed prior to 7 December 2020 must be returned by the end of March 2021.

Members of ETH Zurich can benefit by linking their SWITCH edu-ID with their ETH Zurich user account

Today, the new ETH Library @ swisscovery research platform replaces the Search Portal of the ETH Library and NEBIS recherche.

swisscovery is replacing the ETH Library Search Portal. Read on to find out more about the change and why you need to register.

By taking part in our interview study, you will help to tailor the ETH Library’s services more closely to your needs. We are still looking for private individuals interested in science and culture.

At the 17:15 Colloquium on 26 November 2020, Prof. Sybille Krämer, Theoretical Philosophy, FU Berlin, will speak about the change to digital literacy. Be there virtually and discuss with us!

Take part in the interview study “The ETH Library in your everyday life of work, teaching or study” and help us tailor our services even better to your needs.

How do you like the new ETH Library website? We would love to hear your opinion.

Would you like to find and apply knowledge quickly and easily? Users can now enjoy the new ETH Library website with completely revised content, visuals and structure. A win in (almost) all cases.

Put your knowledge to the test and discover the fascinating treasures of two libraries

Das Selbstlernzentrum des Sprachenzentrums der UZH und der ETH Zürich ist umgezogen und befindet sich neu in der Baubibliothek. Nun können auch Medien zum Erlernen einer Fremdsprache ausgeliehen werden.