Principles of digitisation

Note about Digicoord

Digicoord was an information platform on Swiss digitisation projects provided by the Swiss National Library and RERO+.
It has been deactivated in August 2023.

Cover of an issue of “Nebelspalter” from 1980. All issues of the satirical magazine up to 2017 are available online.

Working with external partners, the Swiss National Library (NL) digitises documents from its collections and making them available online. However, copyright rules apply, which mean that certain digitised collections can only be consulted on the library’s premises.

Documents can be digitised if they meet the following criteria:

they are not subject to copyright
if they are subject to copyright, an agreement has been concluded with the publisher that allows them to be used
they meet user demand or fall within one of the library’s areas of specialisation (Swiss history, art and literature, information and documentation sciences)