E-Library UB & ZB Zurich

In our E-library you find all scientific journals, articles, studies and databases licensed for UZH in electronic form. The collection also contains e-books, images and audio materials. You can find them on the research platform swisscovery of the UB and ZB Zurich.

• can all members of UZH, the university hospitals and Balgrist Hospital (research/teaching).
• For downloads, you must be in the UZH network or connected via VPN.
• Members of the universities of applied sciences (including DIZH participants) do not have access to UZH e-resources.
• iOS/iPad-OS: Access to journals for students via VPN not possible.

For non-UZH members, there are public research stations available at our staffedlocations, where they can search for literature and download full texts.

You don't have access? Set up a VPN connection.

If a VPN connection is not possible, you can also access UZH e-resources from outside the university.

If you do not have access to certain scientific content with your institutional account, there are various ways in which you can still legally access articles.

• E-resources are for personal use, research, and teaching purpose only. Any commercial use is prohibited. In addition, special terms of use of the licensed content apply to individual contracts, in particular in connection with the storage of the licensed content used for teaching materials.

• The full texts may not be passed on to third parties either electronically or in printed form, nor may they be made accessible to third parties online.

• The use of electronic resources or parts thereof in combination with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is in many cases prohibited by license agreement. If you are planning to use AI in this way, you must contact us in advance to clarify the relevant terms and conditions.

• The systematic download of full texts or search results – also for text and data mining – is prohibited.
• Passwords and other access data are confidential and may not be disclosed to third parties.
• The Copyright for the electronic full texts lies with the publisher or the author(s) of the publication.
• Please also refer to the copyright regulations of the publishers on their websites (e.g., under Terms & Conditions).