Country Switzerland Location Zurich Website www.library.ethz.ch Director Rafael Ball | Established 1855 Size Over 8,450,000 items Phone +41 44 632 21 35 | |
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Type Scientific library, University library Address ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland Hours Open today · 8AM–9:45PMThursday8AM–9:45PMFriday8AM–9:45PMSaturday9AM–4:45PMSunday9AM–4:45PMMonday8AM–9:45PMTuesday8AM–9:45PMWednesday8AM–9:45PM Profiles | ||
Vernetztes wissen online wissensportal der eth bibliothek
ETH-Bibliothek is the largest public scientific and technical library in Switzerland. It serves as a central university library for ETH Zurich and a national centre for scientific and technical information. Besides providing information for members of ETH Zurich, it also offers resources for the interested public and companies from research and development. Its main focuses are electronic information services for university members and the development of innovative services.
Contents
- Vernetztes wissen online wissensportal der eth bibliothek
- Gesturespace 2 eth bibliothek
- Collection focuses
- Special libraries
- Collections and Archives
- Selected key figures for ETH Bibliotheks holdings
- Searching on the Knowledge Portal
- ETH E Collection
- ETH E Citations
- Other nationally relevant platforms operated by ETH Bibliothek a selection
- Circulation courier
- DOI Desk
- Digital Curation office
- E Publishing office
- DigiCenter
- Ongoing projects
- References
Gesturespace 2 eth bibliothek
Collection focuses
ETH-Bibliothek collects media from the following fields:
Special libraries
ETH-Bibliothek's four special libraries are responsible for supplying subject-specific literature to the corresponding departments and institutes at ETH Zurich. Their holdings are also generally available to the interested public. The special libraries include:
Collections and Archives
ETH-Bibliothek's Collections and Archives contain valuable original holdings of scientific and cultural-historical relevance. The Collections and Archives include:
Selected key figures for ETH-Bibliothek's holdings
ETH Bibliothek’s holdings comprise around 8 million analogue and around 550,000 digital resources. As of 31 December 2015, these include:
Analogue resources
Digital resources
Searching on the Knowledge Portal
The Knowledge Portal is ETH-Bibliothek's website. ETH-Bibliothek's analogue and digital resources can be accessed via an integrated search function. Furthermore, approximately 7 million titles from all roughly 140 libraries in the Network of Libraries and Information Centres in Switzerland NEBIS, as well as journal articles, e-book chapters, conference reports and much more from the Primo Central Index, are also documented. The Knowledge Portal is based on the product Primo by the company Ex Libris and the WebCMS eZ Publish.
ETH E-Collection
ETH E-Collection is ETH Zurich's document server and serves as an open access publication platform for members of the institute. It includes dissertations, habilitations, conference papers, reports, e-book chapters, journal articles, and Bachelor's and Master's theses.
ETH E-Citations
The institutional bibliography ETH E-Citations indexes scientific publications by members of ETH Zurich. ETH E-Citations is the official data source for the preparation of ETH Zurich's Annual Academic Achievements
Other nationally relevant platforms operated by ETH-Bibliothek (a selection)
Circulation courier
As the operator of the library network NEBIS (Network of Libraries and Information Centres in Switzerland), ETH-Bibliothek provides a free courier service with around forty NEBIS libraries. Library customers can have documents from any participating institution delivered to the library of their choice.
DOI Desk
ETH Zurich's DOI Desk is located at ETH-Bibliothek and acts as a central DOI registration centre for universities and research institutions in Switzerland. This service is also provided in collaboration with DataCite.
Digital Curation office
The specialist Digital Curation office advises researchers at ETH Zurich on aspects of handling research data and digital data in general. The ETH Data Archive provides the technical infrastructure for the electronic long-term archiving and publication of this data.
E-Publishing office
As a central contact point for open access within ETH Zurich, ETH-Bibliothek helps members of ETH Zurich to publish their dissertations, articles, reports and much more in a freely accessible way online.
DigiCenter
"The Digitization Centre at the ETH-Bibliothek is service provider and competence centre in the fields of digitization and the handling of metadata. In cooperation with various institutions of ETH Zurich and Swiss libraries, it carries out large-scale and high-quality digitization projects".
Ongoing projects
ETH-Bibliothek conducts a number of future-oriented projects, which ensure that the service and product portfolio is geared towards the needs of the target groups". The nationally relevant cooperative projects financed via external funds include:
All the projects listed are conducted within the scope of the SUK Programme 2013-2016 P-2 "Scientific Information: Accessing, Processing and Saving" launched by the swissuniversities.