Welcome to the ETH Library
We are here for you: for students, researchers and all interested persons. As the central university library of ETH Zurich, we ensure that you are provided with scientific and technical information and advocate the generation, further development and transfer of knowledge in society as a customer-centric trailblazer.
What you can expect from us
Information and Literature: Whether you require printed or digital formats or physical objects, we provide you with whatever you need for your research, teaching or degree. At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), we provide you with freely accessible specialist literature, collections, data and specimens in a clearly structured manner, and also show you the available contents of the physical collections. We also have quiet reading, study and workspaces.
Publishing: We run the Research Collection as a repository for your publications and their dissemination, management and documentation, and offer specialised advice on data management and publishing issues, for example data management planning, open access and long-term archiving. We provide additional support for publishing in open-access journals by covering the expenses.
Cooperation: We digitise collections in cooperative projects and provide you with our expertise on digitisation and information organisation. As an active partner in integrated scientific knowledge production, we develop and provide infrastructures and tools that cover the entire scientific value creation chain in cooperation with internal and external partners and by participating in expert committees and associations.
Knowledge and Learning: Our exhibitions, online platforms, guided tours and co-creation campaigns, where we actively involve our customers, take the know-how of ETH Zurich to the public. Our courses, workshops and webinars teach you skills in conducting searches, scientific writing, reference management, open access and data management. We also offer individual advice on all these topics.