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The search interface ETH Library @ swisscovery and other library services will be unavailable for 24 hours from Saturday, 12 July 7 am. 

To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, the Thomas Mann Archive at the ETH Library is launching a new online platform. It offers digital access to the writer's letters for the first time.

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In the tutorial on 31 March 2025 we will present the optimal use of Swissdox@LiRi.

With the full-text database SPORTDiscus the ETH Library fills a gap in the provision of sports medicine literature

New ways of accessing content by places, people and topics, as well as advanced full-text recognition, make it easier to access digitised print material.

From now on, you can easily explore the holdings of the ETH Zurich University Archives, the Thomas Mann Archives and the Max Frisch Archives online. The ‘Virtual Reading Rooms’ simplify archive research and offer expanded access options.

The ETH Library’s Image Archive has reached a new milestone.

Test the new AI-powered Research Assistant in the "ETH Library @ swisscovery” search portal and give your feedback.

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.

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

Do you use e-rara in your research or teaching? Thanks to our interfaces, you can access the data you need directly. Do you do research using e-rara? You can now use the IIIF viewers to view and compare digitised resources across platforms.

The books making up ETH Professor Louis Rollier’s (1859–1931) personal collection have been added to e-rara as a virtual private library.

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.

Members of ETH Zurich can now access the Orbis and Orbis Intellectual Property databases. Research information on more than 450 million companies and their patent data worldwide.

Geofacets, the database for geoscientific maps, will no longer be available from 2024 onwards. The publisher Elsevier is discontinuing the platform.

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

The ETH Zurich Web Archive, an important source for research into the history of science, has been relaunched following a comprehensive upgrade. It now dates back to 1997. All contents have been full-text indexed and are, starting from 2017, intensively curated.

The swiss cooperation platforms receive Best of Swiss Web Award 2023

The ETH Library is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its blog, ETHeritage. To mark the occasion, a public panel discussion on the topic of trends and future, titled “Trends und Zukunft”, will be held in the ETH Zurich main building on Tuesday, 13 June at 5.00 p.m. Those interested in attending can do so either in person or online.

You can now virtually browse through the bookshelf of psychologist and Jungian Carl Alfred Meier. Discover valuable works on the topics of psychology, natural science, medicine and more.

e-rara has broken the hundred-thousand barrier while also reaching the milestone of 40,000 full-text titles.

Search standards on a new platform and view now also the IEC standards for electrical engineering, electronics and information technology.

On the 13^th of March 2023 e-manuscripta.ch, the platform for digitised manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives, will celebrate its 10^th anniversary.

e-rara puts digitized prints at your fingertips – now with new functions and navigation options.

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.

You are now able to publish large amounts of research data in the Research Collection. Find out more about this new offer.

A new look for the Swiss manuscripts platform

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

The ETH Library ETHorama platform was given a fresh new design on 01 June 2022 and now offers even more exploration options.

The digital version of the ETH Library Image Archive contains over 640,000 images. But how do you find what you’re looking for in E-Pics? With our survey, we want to find out how you use the database.

With the NAHIMA database, the ETH Library provides a virtual infrastructure that makes natural science collections accessible to researchers in an efficient and clear way.

The ETH Zurich publication platform continuously proves its importance to researchers in all fields. Current statistics show the number of downloads and open access entries rose again last year.

On E-Pics, the ETH Zurich platform for image catalogues, new additions from the ETH Library Thomas Mann Archives have been recorded and digitised. They are now available for researchers and interested parties.

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

What are the topics in focus? What is being downloaded and cited via the Research Collection? Current statistics show that in Q3 2021, reading choices were dominated by COVID-19 and climate change.

150 years of agricultural sciences at ETH Zurich! A new mini-series on Explora is being created from nostalgic images and diverse materials, but also from the future perspectives of researchers.

Start your research via ETH Zurich’s swisscovery interface.

Employees of ETH Zurich can now save their preferred author name, including variants, in their ETH profile. This way, authors are included in the publication search in full.

Five institutions from four countries have joined forces to establish the Thomas Mann International (TMI) network, driving exchange and promoting research, discourse and education.

Now, learn as part of self-study why research question, outline and proposal are crucial.

The Research Collection provides researchers with green open access to scientific publications and the option to publish at no charge.

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

Today, 1 June 2021, the Image Archive is launching its E-Pics catalogue as part of the new front end. The new front end features an intuitive, modern and responsive design for a simple, fast and particularly “fresh” new version of E-Pics catalogues.

The tenth anniversary of e-rara was marked with presentations, visualisations and discussions – online, in public and live. Find out what researchers have been saying about retrospective digitisation and learn more about the platform online.

The Research Collection statistics sets two records: Never before have so many downloads been made in a month, and never before has the open-access proportion been so high in a single year!

We will celebrate ten years of e-rara with a virtual panel discussion – an exchange between experts, researchers and people interested in science on “Retrospective digitisation in Switzerland”.

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

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.

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

A newly launched platform that provides access to the rescanned manuscripts of the minutes allows users to research the history of ETH Zurich using mobile devices.

2020 saw the highest ever number of journal articles downloaded! You can also find out which topic occupied users the most.

AstroRara offers interactive digital access to historic astronomical illustrations. Three fascinating new works are now ready to be explored.

The new Explora Story is all about geodata and its added value - discover it now!

At the beginning of December, the AstroRara web app won bronze in the “Mobile Web” category at the Best of Swiss Apps Award 2020.

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.

The private library of the statesman and entrepreneur Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth can now be explored on e-rara. The initiator of the “Linthwerk” river regulation works is synonymous with Swiss ingenuity.

Journey to the stars with AstroRara, a platform that allows anyone to interactively explore historic astronomical illustrations and learn fascinating facts about the authors and their works.

An increasing number of scientists at ETH Zurich are using open access to publish their research findings – meaning knowledge can be shared without restriction and used free of charge.

Research data published in the Research Collection can now also be found in the Data Citation Index.

The E-Periodica platform has been completely revised and expanded both technically and in terms of content and offers you convenient and helpful options.

Via the "Archive database online", the Thomas Mann Archives provide access to further original documents of the author

The Alloy Phase Diagram Database is an extensive pool of data available to researchers. Research, highlight and compare its contents to produce contemporary, progressive research.

Members of ETH Zurich can now access and use statistical data efficiently and across disciplines: Statista makes facts and figures available in a systematic, uncomplicated format.

Better filters and optimised tools: the online database materialarchiv.ch has even more content. A public panel discussion with interesting guests promises plenty of excitement.

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.

With ETHorama you can travel through Switzerland with just a few clicks, encountering history and fascinating stories, going on adventures and gaining insights. It’s an ingenious digital meetup with Switzerland.

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

After ten years and with some 78,800 titles, e-rara.ch was relaunched at the end of March 2020 with a modern and intuitive design.

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

Fancy a change of scenery? Looking for some inspiration? Experience the past in the digital world of ETH Library.

Explore historical astronomical illustrations interactively with the new app

Die neue Story auf Explora hat den Mond im Visier: Er ist ein ständiger Begleiter und schien doch Jahrtausende lang unerreichbar – bis zu jenem Moment vor 50 Jahren, als der erste Mensch seinen Fuss daraufsetzte.

Neue Datenbank im Bereich Verhaltensforschung und Psychologie

15'000 Werke zum freien Download

Die Plattform e-rara.ch richtet sich noch mehr auf die Bedürfnisse von Forschung und Lehre aus

Neue Publikation zum Altbestand der ETH-Bibliothek

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.

Ab sofort erhalten Angehörige der ETH Zugriff auf konkurado. konkurado ist eine unabhängige Informationsplattform für Architektur- und Ingenieurswettbewerbe.

Auf der Plattform ETHorama lassen sich über 50 historische Reisen bekannter Personen quer durch die Schweiz auf einer digitalen Karte nachverfolgen. Neu werden auch Reisestationen ausserhalb der Schweizer Landesgrenzen erfasst.

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.