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After intensive negotiations with the publisher Wiley, the negotiating delegation of swissuniversities has concluded a new consortium agreement. 

At the ETH Library's ‘Learn & Talk’ on 17 June, we will exchange ideas with experts and each other about the increasing pressure to publish, its impact on science, and supporting services through the ETH Library.

The ETH Library launches a new support service. Would you like to learn more about the systematic review process? Do you need support in developing or reviewing your search strategy?

Agreements made by the ETH Library open up further possibilities for publishing open access. 

Join us on 13 November 2024 for the fifth lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS), hosted by ETH Library and University of Fribourg. Prof. Bart Thijs will discuss new approaches to assessing the quality of research.

The ETH Library licences plagiarism detection software and offers a comprehensive range of services for plagiarism prevention.

Unlimited reading and publishing; AI use regulated 

Members of ETH Zurich can publish open access in the hybrid journals of World Scientific Publishing unlimitedly.

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!  

The 1st Diamond Open Access Conference in Switzerland, organised as part of the PLATO project and with the participation of the ETH Library, will take place in March.

Publishing in Taylor & Francis journals is possible again.

From 2024, the ETH Library will cover the costs of publications in more journals, including Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

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.

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.

In homage to the architectural historian and photographer Hans-Peter Bärtschi, we celebrate a new photo book from the ETH Library and the complete digitisation of his photographic archive.

The ETH Library is the first Swiss university library to be awarded the CoreTrustSeal. As ETH Zurich’s institutional repository, the Research Collection now has a globally recognised certification.

Save the date: join us on 30 August 2022 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Switzerland’s largest map collection with a book launch.

Discover the new feature at ETH Library @ swisscovery and get a new perspective on the results of your literature search.

Start your research via ETH Zurich’s swisscovery interface.

Read about the work accomplished in the Thomas Mann Archives over the past year despite the pandemic, with a review of the main areas of focus.

The Kaleidoscope 2020 gives you an insight into the topics that we have been particularly dealing with at the ETH Library during the past year.

Journal search for holdings of the ETH Zurich libraries using ETH Library @ swisscovery

The concluded Read-and-Publish agreements cover both the costs of access and publishing in the relevant scientific journals. The costs are covered by the ETH Library.

Independent publishing: SciPost gives ETH Zurich researchers an additional way of publishing their research results as open-access articles without relying on commercial providers.

Between November 2019 and March 2020, ETH Library conducted an online survey on satisfaction and its image among its most important customers, the scientific community.

With the 2019 Kaleidoscope, we are presenting the successor format to the annual report of the ETH Library. It gives an insight into the topics that particularly concerned us in the past year.

The new Read and Publish agreement between ETH Library and Springer Nature not only makes scientific research accessible worldwide but also effectively advances it. A service for members of ETH Zurich.

ETH Library pays Open Access publication fees at Elsevier for members of ETH Zurich.

The new illustrated book with photographs from the ETH Library Image Archive is now available.

This time additionally available as compressed outline on 6 pages

Vom 4. bis 7. Juni 2019 fand zum ersten Mal die ETH Research Data Management Summer School statt.

Neue Publikation zum Altbestand der ETH-Bibliothek

Der neue E-Pics Bildkatalog Rostpilze auf Solanaceae zeigt über 1’400 makro- und mikroskopische Aufnahmen von Rostpilzen auf der Pflanzenfamilie der Nachtschattengewächse (Solanaceae). Die Belege stammen aus den Vereinten Herbarien der ETH Zürich und der Universität Zürich.

Im Jahr 2014 übernahm die ETH-Bibliothek das gesamte Fotoarchiv der Stiftung Industriekultur. Nun veröffentlicht das Bildarchiv der ETH-Bibliothek den ersten Teilbestand des Industriehistorikers Dr. Hans-Peter Bärtschi aus den Jahren 1965–2005.

Die ETH-Bibliothek bietet jetzt auch beim Verlag IGI Global und beim Journal of Experimental Botany an, kostenlos Open Access zu publizieren. Der korrespondierende Autor einer Publikation muss Angehöriger der ETH Zürich sein, damit die gratis Open-Access-Option bei IGI Global oder beim Journal of Experimental Botany gültig ist.

Ab sofort können Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der ETH Zürich kostenlos in Zeitschriften der Royal Society of Chemistry Open Access publizieren.