What is the ETH E-Collection?

The ETH E-Collection is the institutional repository of the ETH Zurich. This service offered by the ETH-Bibliothek provides an alternative publication platform outside the traditional publishing industry to all members of the ETH Zurich. The materials published here are relevant to research and teaching and can be viewed via the world wide web. All in the ETH E-Collection published documents are centrally recorded and administrated, made accessible in the catalogue of the ETH-Bibliothek according to international standards as well as stored on long term basis.

Since 1st of March 2006 ETH Zurich is cosignatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (pdf, 52 kB) on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. The ETH Zurich, therefore, supports and promotes open access publishing.

In July 2008 the Executive Board of the ETH Zurich adopted the Open Access Policy for the university. The policy encourages all researchers of the ETH Zurich to participate actively in the realisation of the Open Access Concept.

Collection Policy

The main subject focus of the collection is science and technology according to the profile of the ETH Zurich. The type of documents include:

  • Doctoral and Postdoctoral Theses
  • Journal Items (Postprints, Preprints)
  • Reports
  • Educational Materials
  • Series
  • Conference Proceedings
  • Inventories of the Archives of the ETH Zurich
  • Journals
  • Annual Reports
  • etc.

For the size of the collection as well as the distribution of the document types please refer to statistics.

The complete collection may be searched on the ETH E-Collection Website (incl. full texts) as well as in the catalogue of the ETH-Bibliothek.