By developing and implementing pioneering projects, the ETH-Bibliothek seeks to ensure that its portfolio of products and services meets the needs of its main user groups.
Current projects
- BIBonMAP – Geobrowsing platform for map-based presentation of material from the ETH-Bibliothek and other sources
- Digital Curation – Curation of digital research data and other content
- Digitization project for rare books from the C.G. Jung library – Digitization of early printed books on alchemy from the private collection of C.G. Jung
- DOI-CH – Set-up of an allocation and registration agency for Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
- E-lending – Evaluation of how licensed and acquired e-books from the ETH-Bibliothek holdings can be made available to external library customers online
- E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library – Innovation and cooperation project for cross-university provision of scientific information in Switzerland
- e-rara.ch – Online platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries
- Image archive of the Foundation Luftbild Schweiz – Archiving, digitization and publication of a significant collection of aerial photographs
- Integration of the library system of the University of Zurich – Merger of the library catalogues of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and Zentralbibliothek Zurich
- retro.seals.ch – Retrospective digitization of scientific journals, with special attention to regional content
- Retro-digitisation of audiovisual media – Digitization and archiving of older audiovisual holdings
- Single Sign-On – Simplifying the login procedure for using library resources
- Web Portal e-lib.ch – Development of a national web portal for central access to the Swiss Electronic Library
- Zeitgeschichte-digital.ch – Digitization and online provision of archive content
Completed projects
- Digital Stack – Digital provision of journal holdings (feasibility study)
- E-Pics – The interactive picture Information system at the ETH Zurich
- ERM Electronic Resource Management – Purchase of software for managing all electronic resources at the ETH-Bibliothek
- Gesturespace@ETH-Bibliothek – interactive, dynamic projection of digitised historic resources held at the ETH-Bibliothek
- Information transfer – Development of a web portal to simplify access to all the data collections and services of the ETH-Bibliothek
- Knowledge Portal – Development of a web portal for simplified access to all data collections and services of the ETH-Bibliothek
- Open Access – Introduction of Open Access at ETH Zurich
- Pilot project on long-term preservation – Permanent backup of primary and secondary digital data
- Publication Pool – Creation of a university bibliography for ETH Zurich
