• Full text versions available online
• Access for members of ETH Zurich to licensed e-books in the ETH Zurich network
• Access for all external users to licensed e-books in the public areas of ETH Library
• E-books from the Rare Books Collection are freely accessible online.
• E-Lending: Borrowing e-books electronically
• E-book providers' platforms

• Most of the printed monographs are not freely accessible and have to be ordered online on the Knowledge Portal. ETH Library is a storage library.
• Open-access resources are available in the Baubibliothek, Bibliothek Erdwissenschaften, GESS-Bibliothek and Grüne Bibliothek.
• Most documents published after 1900 can be borrowed or else they can be viewed in the Reading Room Collections and Archives.

• With a few exceptions, the documents in the Rare Books Collection can be ordered online on the Knowledge Portal.
• They can be viewed in the Reading Room Collections and Archives but cannot be borrowed.
• Depending on the location of the stack, documents ordered are available for viewing in the Reading Room Collections and Archives within 3 to 24 hours. They remain available for 7 working days.
• Books which cannot be ordered online can be requested for viewing using this form: Antrag für die Benutzung von Sonderbeständen der Sammlung Alte und Seltene Drucke (pdf, 70.59 kB) (German). These books can only be used by prior arrangement.
• e-rara.ch (external link), platform with digital content from rare books

Textbooks and standard works in digital form relating to all subjects

• Online reference works can be found in the Knowledge Portal
• Printed reference works relating to the subject areas of ETH Zurich: reference collection at the ETH Library's InfoCenter
• Printed bibliographical reference works: reference collection in the Reading Room Collections and Archives

Reference collection at the ETH Library's InfoCenter as well as at least one borrowable copy in the stacks

• A Scientific working methods (link opens a new window)
• B Scientific writing and presentation techniques (link opens a new window)
• C Career development and career planning (link opens a new window)

• Search and order via the Knowledge Portal. You can collect the language courses at the circulation desk.
• German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and other languages from all over the world
• Various levels of difficulty (e.g. preparation for examinations)
• Mostly supplemented by multimedia aids such as CD, CD-ROM or video
• Self-Access Center Hönggerberg: various printed and audio-visual media to teach yourself a language