Digitised collections

Principles of digitisation

The Swiss National Library digitises documents from its collections and making them available online, subject to the requirements of copyright law.

Newspapers

The Swiss National Library digitises newspaper titles from its collection and making them available on the platform e-newspaperarchives.ch.

Periodicals

The Swiss National Library digitises periodicals from its collection and making them available online at E-Periodica. The ETH Library operates the platform.

Image documents

Digitised prints, photographs, picture postcards, pictures and plans, buildings, places and artists held by the Prints and Drawings Department, the Swiss Literary Archives and the Centre Dürrenmatt.

Literary estates and archives

The Swiss National Library digitises documents from the collections of the Swiss Literary Archives that are not subject to rights restrictions and make them available to the public on various platforms.

Other collections

The Swiss National Library provides online access to many types of media from its collections, including books, audio documents, sounds, images, photographs, postcards and posters.
https://www.nb.admin.ch/content/snl/en/home/collections/digital-collections/digitised-collections.html