e-Helvetica: overview

The Swiss National Library (NL) also collects, archives, catalogues, preserves and provides access to born-digital publications. These are collectively known as “e-Helvetica”, from the term “Helvetica” meaning documents related to Switzerland.

The e-Helvetica collection consists of six components:

• Digital commercial publications
• Digital official publications
• Digital standards
• Digital university publications (e-Diss.ch)
• Websites (Web Archive Switzerland)
• Wikipedia articles
  

Long-term archiving

The long-term archive is based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS).

Collection and archiving of digital publications at the NL

Access to e-Helvetica

• e-Helvetica

Bibliographical information can also be found in the online library catalogue Helveticat.

• Helveticat

Digital archiving