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Infrastructure
High-quality services
ETH-Bibliothek
Yvonne Inden, journal digitisation
“The retro.seals.ch portal offers free, open access to the full
text versions of digitised Swiss scientific journals. So far,
journals are available in the fields of architecture, geography,
history and mathematics. As well as the historic material
dating back to the 19th century, current journals are
also available to be searched or downloaded.
At the ETH-Bibliothek, I oversee all the stages that a printed
journal has to pass through before it is available online.
First of all there are talks with the relevant publishing houses
or companies to sort out questions about copyright,
financing and stock.
ETH Center for Higher Education
Koni Osterwalder, Head of NET
“The main focus at the Center for Higher Education (LZ) in
2008 was on reorientation, and working on a new business
plan. We reviewed the processes in our area of business
and identified key themes for forward-looking education.
In doing this, we were able to make use of the results of the
“Roadmap” project, a comprehensive survey on teaching
and studying that was carried out among students, lecturers
and other stakeholders.
In future, we will increasingly take over the digitisation
process ourselves, so we are building up our own infrastructure.
It’s particularly important for us to make journals
available. This work is carried out by students. Only in this
way is it possible to carry out online navigation within
a volume or to search for specific authors or titles or in partial
collections. The positive feedback we get from users
and the demand from publishing houses tell us that digitisation
is meeting a great need.”
As part of the e-learning strategy of ETH Zurich, in three
departments we assisted with the introduction of a specialist
with knowledge of computer-based teaching methods
(DELIS). Part of this work is financed by the Rector. These
specialists will serve as an interface between the LZ and
the departments – a model for the future that will be
extended in 2009. Our business plan will be finalised in
2009, when a number of in-depth studies will be completed.
One of the things we are trying to do is review the Filep
Fund which promotes innovative teaching projects, to make
sure that it remains an important engine for educational
innovation at ETH Zurich in future.”
– Total stock: 6,900,000,
of which electronic documents: 60,000
– Licensed electronic journals: 10,329
– Accesses to electronic journals: 2,801,000 (per year)
– Accesses to databases: 655,000 (per year)
The Center for Higher Education (LZ) supports lecturers,
students and course managers with the aim of making
teaching and learning at ETH Zurich as good as it can
possibly be. The LZ comprises the Centre for Teaching and
Learning, ETH tools, the Network for Educational Technology
(NET) and the Centre for Continuing Education.
www.ethbib.ethz.ch/index_e.html
www.elz.ethz.ch/index_EN
42 ETH Zurich annual report 2008