Documents in the ETH E-Collection are equal to the conventional documents and are therefore citable. Please use for the citations the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
E.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-000565688
The ETH E-Collection presents a collection of documents of high scientific quality. The quality security is provided by the close cooperation with the researcher at the ETH Zurich. The guidelines on how to enter publications are discussed with the professors or with designated contact persons of the institutes.
All documents are recorded bibliographically and indexed by subject by librarians and subject specialists. If the publications are not suitable for the collection, because of the format or content, the author is contacted. A peer reviewing system does not exist.
RSS (abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication) makes it possible for users to subscribe or integrate the content of a website - or parts of it - as so-called RSS feeds.
You can subscribe to an RSS feed of the result list of your query.
The RSS feed is indicated with an orange icon and a link (RSS). Clicking on the icon or link will take you to the RSS file.
The feed reader is integrated in new browsers such as Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7.
The documents in the ETH E-Collection are indexed by several Internet search engines (e.g. Google). In addition the meta data is collected by different OAI data providers using OAI –MPH (so called Harvester).The documents in the ETH E-Collection may also be retrieved through OAIster, but they stay in the ETH E-Collection.
Simple search
If you do not modify the simple search, the search term will be searched within the metadata (author, title, etc.) and also in the full text of the document.
Advanced search
The advanced search allows to restrict a search to a specific field (e.g. author, title, publisher) or a specific institution, a time range or a subject. Moreover there is also a search only within the full text.
In addition, there are several operators available:
You can use wildcards. The asterisk * substitutes any number of characters, whereas ? substitues any one character.
The boolean operators AND and OR can be activated below the search field.
Doctoral theses are not in the lists by organisational unit, because according to the regulation for doctoral studies at the ETH Zurich the Phd degree is given by the ETH Zurich and not the departments.
All members of the ETH Zurich (employees, doctoral candidates, masters and graduate students) are entitled to publish documents relevant to research and teaching in the ETH E-Collection.
The ETH E-Collection accepts doctoral theses, journal items (postprints, preprints), reports, educational materials, conference proceedings, journals and annuals etc.
The main subject focus of the collection is science and technology according to the profile of the ETH Zurich.
The preferred format for documents in the ETH E-Collection is pdf. Please note when creating pdfs that the file is not subject to security restrictions and is not protected by a password. In addition all fonts and other items which form part of the content (audio, graphic and video files) should be included in the pdf.
If you would like to submit a document in a different format, please contact ETH E-Collection.
To submit a document, you must register with your nethz login. Your browser needs to allow cookies from aai-login.ethz.ch, wayf.switch.ch and e-collection.library.ethz.ch.
If you wrote your paper at the ETH Zurich but no longer have a nethz password:
Please send us the document as an attachment to . Please note that in addition to the actual document we also require the following details:
Technical illustrations are tables, graphics or diagrams which were made using standard software such as Excel, PowerPoint. They may be transferred from the document one to one if the source is properly mentioned.
Illustrations with artistic value
An illustration with artistic value by third party may not be integrated into the document without contacting the copyright holder of the illustration and negotiating the conditions of publishing.
The publication of third party illustrations in materials only used for teaching, does not infringe copyright laws. It is, however, recommended to restrict the publication to the ETH Zurich Intranet (IP-range).
It is important that the document's copyright is not assigned to the publisher. Otherwise the author has to clarify, if the publisher allows the publication in the ETH E-Collection. Most publishers do allow a certain form of self-archiving of journal articles as pre- and postprints.
Overview of the copyright guidelines of important international publishers:
With the implementation of the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) protocols the meta data of the ETH E-Collection can be collected by all intererest groups. The meta data of the ETH E-Collection is harvested from the data provider OAIster and thereby visible world wide.
There is no time limit on the availability of the documents, in order to guarantee the citation of the documents in the long term. It is the ETH-Bibliothek’s charge to ensure measures for a long term preservation, availability and readability of the documents. In cooperation with other institutions ETH-Bibliothek is developing a centre of competence for long time archiving at the ETH Zurich.
and a link (RSS). Clicking on the icon or link will take you to the RSS file.