As an academic library affiliated to the nationwide library system swisscovery, we acquire, catalogue and make available printed and electronic documents in the agricultural, forest and food sciences.
Monday–Friday
9:00am–6:00pm
Tuesday and Wednesday, 10.8. – 11.8.2021 (library cleaning)
Our print holdings comprise around 16,000 monographs and 200 specialist journals in German, French and English. They are fully indexed on the search platform swisscovery.
BFH members and library visitors can also access 70 specialist databases, 12,000 scientific online journals, 17,000 other journals and newspapers and 100,000 e-books.
You can borrow documents from our library directly on site at the library counter during our opening hours. You can also reserve them in advance via swisscovery.
Further information on borrowing terms for BFH staff and students, and for external users, is available here.
The BFH libraries have produced a Moodle course that provides a step-by-step introduction to the principles of literature research.
These and other questions are answered in the Moodle course Literature research at the BFH with videos, graphics and a quiz. The Moodle course can be used flexibly – as a self-study course or to accompany teaching events. It is available to all BFH students and staff and provides basic, subject-independent material for all disciplines. For subject-specific queries, users are referred to the relevant specialist library at the BFH. The course is currently available in German; French and English versions will follow shortly.
As a learning and information center, we offer assistance in searching for, acquiring and processing specialized information. We regularly offer courses for members of BFH.
We also teach scientific methods, information literacy, literature search and reference management on bachelor and on master level.
You can also contact us if you have any questions regarding the reference and information management tool Citavi at BFH: citavi.hafl@bfh.ch.
Members of BFH will find direct links to our search tools and online resources as well as abundant information about literature research and reference management on our Intranet site and on the learning platform Moodle.
