Digital collections: access

The Swiss National Library (NL) collects both digitally born and digitised publications.

Range and access

The NL’s digital collections can be accessed via a range of portals and databases. Bibliographical data are also described in the online catalogue Helveticat.

Documents that are subject to copyright can be accessed via the PC workstations in the public rooms at the NL.

Newspapers

• e-newspaperarchives.ch

Periodicals

• e-Helvetica Access
• e-periodica

Books

• e-Helvetica Access

Dissertations

• e-Helvetica Access

Websites

• e-Helvetica Access

Image documents

• Catalogue of the Association Swiss Poster Collections (SPC)
• Wikimedia Commons: Media contributed by the Swiss National Library

Literary archives and estates

Digitised literary estates and archives

• HelveticArchives

Other digitised collections

• e-Helvetica Access
• Swiss National Sound Archives. Catalog

Please note that for copyright reasons, access to certain National Sound Archives documents is restricted.

Costs

The various portals and databases can be accessed free of charge.

• Helveticat
• Reproductions
• All catalogues and databases

More on this topic

• Newspapers and journals
• Image documents
• Literary estates and archives
• Special collections

Digitization guidelines NL (PDF, 645 kB, 27.07.2017)

• Principles of digitisation

Last modification 23.04.2020