Lending fees
| Loan type (following reservation) | ETH staff and doctoral students at institutes in Switzerland | ETH students | Non-members of the ETH, members of higher education institutions and libraries, | Commercial customers |
Between ETH Zurich libraries | Free of charge | Free of charge | Free of charge | Free of charge |
From the Zurich Central Library for pick-up at ETH Zurich libraries | Free of charge | Free of charge | Free of charge | Free of charge |
Within the SLSP system (via SLSP courier) Pickup at an | Free of charge | Free of charge | 6.00 | 6.00 |
Pickup at another | 6.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 |
Postal delivery for a document Origin of medium from an ETH Zurich library | Free of charge | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 |
Origin of medium from another SLSP library | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 |
All prices in CHF
Reminder fees
Reminders for overdue documents/items (*details of deadlines see below) | ETH staff and doctoral students at institutes in Switzerland
| ETH students | Non-members of the ETH, members of higher education institutions and libraries, | Commercial customers |
Reminder/recall notice | Free of charge | Free of charge | Free of charge | Free of charge |
First reminder | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 |
Second reminder | Additional 5.00 | Additional 5.00 | Additional 5.00 | Additional 5.00 |
Third reminder Please note: | Additional 10.00 | Additional 10.00 | Additional 10.00 | Additional 10.00 |
Documents/items lost, replacement(s) required | Replacement cost of the item(s) plus 80.00 processing fee | Replacement cost of the item(s) plus 80.00 processing fee | Replacement cost of the item(s) plus 80.00 processing fee | Replacement cost of the item(s) plus 80.00 processing fee |
All prices in CHF
*Deadlines recall notice/reminder
| With this loan period | 28 or 14 days | 7 days | 1 day | the same day |
| a callback is made | ||||
| Reminder/recall notice after | 2 working days | 2 working days | 2 working days | none |
| First reminder after | 7 working days | 5 working days | 3 working days | 1 working day |
| Second reminder after | 13 working days | 8 working days | 4 working days | 2 working days |
| Third reminder after | 19 working days | 11 working days | 5 working days | 3 working days |
Fees for delivering articles electronically (digitization)
| Digitization | ETH staff and doctoral students at institutes in Switzerland
| ETH students | Non-members of the ETH, members of higher education institutions and libraries, | Commercial customers |
PDF by email (up to 50 pages), Switzerland/ Liechtenstein from the ETH | Free of charge | 2.50 | 5.00 | 25.00 |
from another SLSP | 5.00 | 2.50 | 5.00 | 25.00 |
All prices in CHF
Interlibrary loan
ETH staff and doctoral students at institutes in Switzerland
| ETH students | Non-members of the ETH, members of higher education institutions and libraries, | Commercial customers | |
Document order with pick-up location ETH Libary | ||||
From Swiss libraries | Free of charge | 12.00* | 12.00* | 12.00* |
Europe | Free of charge | 24.00* | 24.00* | 24.00* |
Overseas | Free of charge | 45.00* | 45.00* | 45.00* |
Surcharge for postal delivery | Free of charge | 12.00* | 12.00* | 12.00* |
Ordering copies per item | ||||
Swiss libraries | Free of charge | 15.00* | 15.00* | 25.00* |
Europe | Free of charge | 20.00* | 20.00* | 35.00* |
Overseas | Free of charge | 25.00* | 25.00* | 45.00* |
Each additional page | Free of charge | -.20 | -.50 | -.50 |
*Minimum fees: effective costs can be charged
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