Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering Library Biel/Bienne

• Only works with a rating of 4 or more are kept in the library.
• The works that currently have an embargo period are not yet integrated in the open stacks and in the research platform BFH swisscovery.
• Works from before 2006 should be requested from the librarians.

How to search these works in the BFH research platform swisscovery ?
 

• Select the Advanced Search mode of BFH swisscovery
• Fill in the search mask according to the template below

• Evaluate results and select relevant records for your research
• To find works in the library from the description, note the course of study, the year of publication and the author's name.

Electronic version

Currently there is no database containing a digital version of the works. In the medium term, such a resource should be available.

e-Norm (Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung SNV)

Citations for 2.1 million standards from the SIA (only standards, neither Merkblatt/cahier technique, nor Dokumentation/documentation), SN (INB/SWISSMEM), ISO and Electrosuisse collections. Full-text access to tens of thousands of standards.
Access from within the BFH network or via a VPN. An additional login is required.
Information on logins for students and employees of the AHB and IT departments can be found on the BFH Intranet.
If the databank locks up, please wait 5–10 minutes and it will automatically unlock.

Lean Library - Find scientific literature more easily and faster

The browser extension Lean Library leads you directly to the full texts offered by your BFH library.
For BFH members only.

FH/BFH e-resources

Most of the bibliographic databases and other online resources offered by the BFH libraries are accessible to BFH students and staff via the BFH network (WLAN or VPN), while other library users can access them at the library's research stations.

Arbor

To support the green path of Open Access the BFH has set up an institutional repository called ARBOR (Applied Research Bern Open Repository).
A repository is a publicly accessible document server for all types of publications. ARBOR promotes free access to BFH research findings and increases visibility and citeability.

More information about Open Access at the BFH

E-Periodica

E-Periodica is the platform for Swiss journals online and is a service of the ETH Library. Subjects range from the natural sciences through architecture, mathematics, history, geography, art and culture to the environment and social policies. At E-Periodica you'll find freely accessible journals from the 18th century through to the present. Resources are being continually expanded and supplemented by current editions.
Examples of architecture and civil engineering journals: Tec21, Werk, Bauen & Wohnen, Hochparterre.

INFORMATIONSDIENST HOLZ

Almost all INFORMATIONSDIENST HOLZ publications are available here free of charge in PDF format, including the "holzbau handbuch" and "spezial" series. In total, more than 70 publications on design and construction, structural planning, building materials and building physics or on award-winning timber construction architecture.

Bauinventar

Building inventory of the city of Bern, freely accessible district inventories of the municipal office for the preservation of historical monuments (Städtische Denkmalpflege) of Bern, published in full in PDF format (excludes the old town).

Digibern

DigiBern is an online portal by the University Library of Bern containing graphical maps and digital texts about the history and culture of the city and canton of Bern:

DigiBern was launched in 2002.

Archinform

An architectural Wiki containing basic knowledge