News

The 31^st Issue of our magazine Infozine is now available online, once again with a mix of news from the Information Center, the world of scientific communication and tips and tricks.

In case you missed the Coffee Lectures of our 36^rd series, held October/November 2025: You can now find the videos of all nine Coffee Lectures on our YouTube channel.

Join us for a KnowItAll Software Workshop on January 15, 2026 and learn how to master Raman, IR, GC-MS and LC-MS data analysis.

A selection of newly acquired books, for the four subject areas Chemistry & Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Bridging Scientific Disciplines as well as Popular Science & Lifelong Learning, can be found online.

Before Christmas, the information center will have limited opening hours and will be closed during the holidays. The library will reopen on Monday, January 5, 2026, with extended opening hours.

Once again this year, a Christmas tree accompanies the Advent season in our reading lounge.

Since 1 December 2025, a freshly cut fir tree from the Höngger Forest has been standing on the H floor of the Information Centre. The library team brought the tree to the Information Centre and decorated it festively. As we do every year, we regularly hang chocolate on the tree – which is there to be eaten.

The group rooms can now be reserved for the learning phase. Read here how.

In 1975, Vladimir Prelog received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. To mark this anniversary, the ICBP team has assembled a selection of books highlighting the breadth and influence of Prelog’s scientific legacy. 

We are very pleased to announce that CAS BioFinder® is available for all ETH Zurich researchers until December 31, 2025. 

A selection of newly acquired books, for the four subject areas Chemistry & Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Bridging Scientific Disciplines as well as Popular Science & Lifelong Learning, can be found online.

End of October we start another series of Coffee Lectures with topics for students, assistants, and researchers. The 36th series of the Coffee Lectures begins on October 21, 2025.

Our book exchange cart will be available again from October 1 to October 15, 2025. Take the opportunity to get your media collection in order and bring your discarded items to ETH Zurich for exchange.

The updated info brochure for 2025/2026 is available online and in print, in German and English, at the Infodesk.

You didn’t get a First-Year-Student Survival Kit? But you are a first-year student?

Fake news, forgeries, manipulation – with the advent of generative algorithms, the topic is coming more into the spotlight. Yet humanity’s struggle with truth and deceit is anything but new. What stories, what ideas, what strategies lie behind it all?

Become information savvy by taking the course with the longest name. You can download the flyer as a PDF here.

A selection of newly acquired books, for the four subject areas Chemistry & Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Bridging Scientific Disciplines as well as Popular Science & Lifelong Learning, can be found online.

Do you want to save a lot of time during your research or Master's project? The Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center offers a wide range of valuable crash courses on scientific information retrieval and visualization: Text-based literature search with Scopus, visualization with PyMOL or ChemDraw, ChatGPT for many applications, networking with LinkedIn, or information management with Obsidian. There is something for you too!

From 15.9.2025 to 24.12.2025, the following opening hours apply:

Monday – Friday    8:00–20:00

Locker rentals for the semester will begin at 8:00 am on Monday, September 15, 2025. The lockers are assigned on a first come, first serve basis.

A selection of newly acquired books, for the four subject areas Chemistry & Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Bridging Scientific Disciplines as well as Popular Science & Lifelong Learning, can be found online.

Is planning synthetic routes part of your everyday lab work? If so, you might be interested in Synthia, the synthesis planning tool from Merck Millipore.

Visit the exhibition at the entrance to the Information Center, set up in honor of Prof. Dr. Albert Eschenmoser, who shaped organic and bioorganic chemistry in the 20th century and would have celebrated his 100th birthday in August 2025.

As Head of the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center, Science Communication and, most recently, Public Relations of the D-CHAB, Dr. Oliver Renn will retire as of June 1, 2025. With outstanding commitment and expertise, he played a key role in shaping information literacy at ETH Zurich and transformed the Information Center from a traditional library into a modern, multifaceted competence center for scientific information.

The 30^th Issue of our magazine Infozine is now available online, once again with a mix of news from the Information Center, the world of scientific communication and tips and tricks.

In June there will be another series of Coffee Lectures with topics for students, assistants, and researchers. The 35th series of the Coffee Lectures begins on June 10, 2025.

During the learning and exam period, we will again offer extended opening hours in the evenings and on weekends.

Locker rentals for the semester will begin at 8:00 am on Monday, June 2, 2025, at the Infodesk. The lockers are assigned on a first come, first serve basis.

The group rooms can now be reserved for the learning phase. Read here how.

A selection of newly acquired books, for the four subject areas Chemistry & Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Bridging Scientific Disciplines as well as Popular Science & Lifelong Learning, can be found online.