ETH-Bibliothek

ETH Library
ETH-Bibliothek

ETH Zurich in the evening

ETH Zurich in the evening
Country Switzerland
Type Scientific library, University library
Established 1855
Location Zurich
Collection
Size Over 8,450,000 items
Other information
Director Rafael Ball
Website www.library.ethz.ch

ETH Library 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.

Collection focuses

ETH Library collects media from the following fields:[1]

Special libraries

ETH Library'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 Library's Collections and Archives contain valuable original holdings of scientific and cultural-historical relevance. The Collections and Archives[3] include:

Selected key figures for ETH Library's holdings

ETH Library’s holdings comprise around 8 million analogue and around 550,000 digital resources. As of 31 December 2016, these include:[4]

Analogue resources

Monographs and journal volumes 2'213'092
Image documents 3'509'522
Maps 338'746
Archival material in linear metres 4'162

Digital resources

Digital image documents 405'217
E-books 213'748
Dissertations, articles and reports in the ETH E-Collection 33'396
Licensed e-journals 19'628
Databases 156

Searching on the Knowledge Portal

The Knowledge Portal is ETH Library's website. ETH Library'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.

Digital search platform

Research Collection

The Research Collection [5] is ETH Zurich’s publication platform. University members can publish their scientific full texts Open Access as well as archive their research data and make them accessible to the public. Furthermore, the Research Collection records all publications produced at ETH Zurich and serves as a source for publication lists in the academic reporting and on ETH Zurich’s websites.

Other nationally relevant platforms operated by ETH Library (a selection)

Selected services

Circulation courier

As the operator of the library network NEBIS[9] (Network of Libraries and Information Centres in Switzerland), ETH Library 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[10] is located at ETH Library 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[11] 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 Library helps members of ETH Zurich to publish their dissertations, articles, reports and much more in a freely accessible way online.[12]

DigiCenter

"The Digitization Centre at the ETH Library 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".[13]

Ongoing projects

ETH Library conducts a number of future-oriented projects, which ensure that the service and product portfolio is geared towards the needs of the target groups".[14] 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.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Function, collections, statistics". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Material Archiv". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Collections, Archives". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Function, collections, statistics". Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Research Collection". Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "e-pics". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "E-Periodica". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Thomas-Mann-Archiv Online". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "About the NEBIS network". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "ETH Zurich DOI Desk". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Digital Curation at ETH Zurich". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Open Access at ETH Zurich". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "DigiCenter". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  14. ↑ "Projects". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "Geodata4SwissEDU". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Research Data Life-Cycle Management (DLCM)". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  17. ↑ "Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP)". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  18. ↑ "SUK Programme 2013-2016 P-2". Retrieved 9 March 2016.

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