Function, collections, statistics
ETH Library, established in 1855, is the largest public natural scientific and technical library in Switzerland and has a major influence on technical developments in Swiss libraries in general.
Function
- Central university library for ETH Zurich
- Swiss centre for technical and natural scientific information
- Provides information for employees and students at ETH Zurich, for members of the public with an interest in technology and science and for companies working in research and development
Task
- Providing electronic information for members of ETH Zurich
- Enabling access to information and media from other service providers
- Obtaining, making available and collecting academic literature
- Developing and providing innovative services
- Long-term preservation of ETH Zurich's scientific and cultural heritage in digital form in the ETH Data Archive and advice on data management
- Implementation of ETH Zurich's open-access policy and support for members of ETH Zurich on open-access publishing
- Managing the ETH Zurich University Archives and the ETH Board Archives
- Maintaining and further developing the culturally and historically important collections at ETH Zurich
Collections
- Architecture
- Civil Engineering
- Engineering Sciences
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- System-oriented Natural Sciences
- Management and Social Sciences
| Statistics | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analog resources | 9 051 990 | 9 330 097 | 9 443 694 |
| Digital resources | 726 215 | 804 959 | 752 396 |
|
Journals e-journals (licensed or freely accessible) subscribed journals |
18 158 5 400 |
19 628 7 142 |
20 087 8 679 |
| Databases | 155 | 156 | 161 |
|
Books, reference works e-books printed works (monographs and bound journals) |
184 537 2 882 123 |
213 748 2 915 775 |
254 386 2 949 857 |
|
Dissertations, reports documents ETH E-Collection reports and microfiches |
31 507 2 213 090 |
28 634 2 213 092 |
2 213 092 |
|
Maps maps and plans |
337 353 |
338 746 |
339 732 |
|
Analog image documents, audiovisual media image documents audiovisual media |
3 319 011 7 776 |
3 509 522 7 942 |
3 571 461 9 003 |
|
Digital image documents Rare Books Collection Collection of Prints and Drawings ETH Zurich Image Archive Max Frisch Archive |
11 100 22 286 329 311 4 000 |
15 000 20 932 365 258 4 000 |
18 055 21 210 394 065 3 756 |
|
Archival materials in linear metres Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich ETH Zurich University Archives Max Frisch Archive Thomas Mann Archives (includes only manuscripts) |
18 3 852 105 22 |
18 4 012 110 22 |
18 4 348 110 22 |
|
Other statistics Abstracts and indices (cumulated) new acquisitions (analog) ETH E-Citations (increase) assigned Digital Object Identifiers DOI (cumulated) |
211 829 1 179 716 12 089 1 047 302 |
228 926 260 139 84 948 1 448 133 |
254 213 168 509 250 072 |
|
Usage loans (analog documents) manual renewals loans to other libraries (analog documents) loans from other libraries (analog documents) number of journal articles (document delivery) |
292 566 209 480 56 215 100 873 49 787 |
283 995 204 789 54 122 101 514 37 374 |
276 714 198 571 51 105 107 909 25 680 |
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Number of accesses to library website (visits) licensed e-journals (pdf downloads) e-books (pdf downloads) ETH E-Collection (visits) databases (sessions, searches) |
1 526 110 5 072 384 5 215 962 3 285 286 367 392 |
1 962 342 4 728 235 3 851 576 3 222 912 403 938 |
769 775 4 934 102 4 672 382 1 413 361 474 617 |