Digitalisierte Schweizer Zeitungen auf e-newspaperarchives.ch

Bibliothekskooperation auf der nationalen Plattform

Abstract

Newspaper digitization began rather late in Switzerland. The first digitized newspaper did not go online until 2006, after which a lot was put into practice. Since 2018, there is a national platform, e-newspaperarchives.ch, for digitized Swiss newspapers. The Swiss National Library is responsible for operating this platform and uses it for projects of their own. However, most of Switzerland‘s cantonal and university libraries also present their newspapers on this national platform. The common goal is to make this kind of content available to the scientific community, but also to a larger public, as images and full text. By the middle of 2021, e-newspaperarchives.ch included 148 titles and around 6,7 million pages. The software used, Veridian, is one of the leading international products for applications of this kind, and the front end offers all desirable functionalities for library customers. The University Library of Bern is one of the partner organizations which has made its digitized newspapers available here and has many years of experience with the relevant workflows and standards.