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In spring 2013, the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich) library management gave out the job of revising the library's web portal. This job seemed attractive as the work promised to produce immediately visible results because the revision procedure was expressly meant to be carried out as quickly as possible. Surveys and the daily work with the clients had shown that improvements were necessary and that adjustments to new usage trends had to be carried out. The following report describes the thoughts on the revision and the measures considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the cataloging and use of open-access electronic books in libraries. The author points out that libraries seem loath to include such titles in their online catalogs (OPACs) unless they have been included in aggregate, third-party databases. Examples provided include books published by the Open Book Publishers publishing house, the institutional repository of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Project Gutenberg web portal.