ETH Library @ swisscovery – help at a glance

Did you know that external page ETH Library @ swisscovery is your access to more than 30 million books, series, journals and non-book materials? As well as billions of electronic articles.
All holdings of all ETH Zurich libraries, as well as more than 490 libraries across Switzerland, are available on ETH Library @ swisscovery.

Registration

ETH Library @ swisscovery and the available media are as diverse as their users. Take a moment to register so that you, too, can take advantage of all the diversity. Once you are registered, the entire world of media is at your disposal.

Four-step tutorial for:

For a more detailed description, please read the detailed tutorial.

Order

All ordering options explained for:

Article search

By default, searches are made in the “swisscovery without CDI” search scope. This makes use of 30 million books, series, journals and non-book materials from the library holdings, as well as additional data sources such as the Research Collection, E-Pics, E-Periodica, the Material Archive, the ETH Zurich University Archives and platforms of other collections and archives.

If you would also like to search the three billion articles and e-book chapters of the Central Discovery Index (CDI), select the search scope “swisscovery”.

The search scope "swisscovery plus" additionally includes documents of selected Renouvaud libraries and documents without fulltext from the CDI.

A guided external page tutorial gives you tips and tricks for your article search.

Services and fees

Customers can use the following services free of charge:

Use of the media accessible in the ETH libraries
Ordering media from ETH libraries for collection from locations within ETH Zurich
Ordering media from the Zurich Central Library for collection from locations within ETH Zurich
Open access resources

All services are free of charge, including media ordered from the swisscovery network for collection from a pick-up location within ETH Zurich.
Online, on-site (ETH Zurich) or VPN access to e-journals, e-books and databases is free of charge.

All orders by courier from the swisscovery network are free of charge for collection at the ETH Zurich libraries.
Online, on-site (ETH Zurich) or VPN access to e-journals, e-books and databases is free of charge.

A fee of CHF 6 per item is charged for orders from other libraries in the swisscovery network for collection from a pick-up location within ETH Zurich. These are delivered by the SLSP courier, which links scientific libraries from all over Switzerland. This means that you can easily have books delivered to an ETH Zurich library within 48 hours.

Quick tip: If possible, use one of the above free services instead.
Also free of charge is E-Lending – the borrowing of e-books.

Please note that from 14 November 2022 onwards your fees are listed at the institution where you pick up your documents. Under “My Account > Fees”, you can see from the icons in the list on the left which institutions have charged you fees. These will be forwarded to SLSP for invoicing after 30 days. After that, they will no longer be visible in your account. You will receive the relevant invoice by email from SLSP at the beginning of the next month.

Here you will find detailed information on fees and conditions of use.

Information on SLSP

swisscovery is operated by the Swiss Library Service Platform, or external page SLSP. SLSP was founded by 15 universities. Today, over 490 libraries across Switzerland have joined.