Further links
The Library am Guisanplatz BiG has compiled a list of useful links to finding aids and databases to help you with your research.
We have put together a list of links to online catalogues and inventories to help you search in the holdings of other libraries and archives.
At the bottom of this page you find links to useful, freely available databases on different topics of general interest.
The BiG is not responsible for any of the content listed here.
Library and archives search portals (individual institutions and associations)
a) Individual library and library association search tools
- swisscovery (Swiss Library Service Platform/SLSP)
- KVK - Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
- Helveticat (National Library)
- Parliament Library catalogue
- RERO (libraries of Western Switzerland)
- WorldCat (global search)
b) Archive catalogues
- Swiss Federal Archive
- Archives Online (Metacatalogue of several Swiss archives)
- Gosteli Foundation (Archive on the history of the Swiss women’s movement)
- Archives of Contemporary History (ETH)
- Swiss Social Archive
Freely accessible databases
a) Reference works
- Swiss Historical Dictionary
- lexicon istoric retic : e-LIR / Lexicon:: (e-lir.ch)
- Register of Swiss Surnames
- GLOSSARIUM HELVETIAE HISTORICUM
- SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland
- foto.CH
- Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce SOGC
- Zefix - Central Business Name Index
b) Legal sources and diplomatic documents
- Curia Vista - database of parliamentary proceedings (1995- )
- Official Compilation of Federal Legilsation (1998- )
- Classified Compilation of Federal Legislation (1848-2015)
- Swiss online official publications (DE, IT, FR) (including archives from the Helvetic Republic 1798-1803)
- Military official publications
- Official compilation of Swiss legislative publications 1245-1798
- Official compilation of Swiss legislative publications 1803-1848 (thematic)
- Legislative publications of the Swiss Diet 1814-1848 (chronological)
- Decisions of the Federal Supreme Court (1875- )
- Military justice decisions (1914-2011)/ Military justice decisions (2006- )
- DODIS - Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (1848- )
c) Newspapers, periodicals and old publications
- e-periodica (Swiss periodicals online)
- e-newspaperarchives.ch
- e-rara (digitised publications from Swiss libraries)
- e-codices
- Europeana
- letempsarchives.ch
d) Photos
- DDPS current mediathek
- DDPS historical mediathek
- Memobase (Memoriav)
- e-pics (ETH historical photographs)
e) Maps