The e-rara.ch platform makes digitized rare books from Swiss libraries available to the public, free of charge. The present focus is on 16th century Swiss prints. Further collections concern astronomy, architecture and urbanism, mathematics and physics.

All the documents are online available.

E-rara.ch is a national collaborative project forming part of the Swiss innovation and cooperation programme E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic library. The project is run by the Bibliothèque de Genève, the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, the University Library of Basel, the University Library of Bern, and Zurich Central Library. Other Swiss libraries participating in the project are: the BPU Neuchâtel, the Bibliothèque des Pasteurs, the BCU Lausanne, and the BCU Fribourg.

The Paracelsus Project collects the microfilms of important manuscripts, records the texts electronically an analyses them according to various criteria.
The project concentrates on the edition of Paracelsus’s Theological Works and the Paracelsus Dictionary.
Selected works of the Huser edition are available on the internet

This online inventory of the archives of Canton Bern offers full-text search, search by specific field and navigation through the hierarchical structure of the archives.

On-line catalogue of the Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann" with about 35'000 books and magazines.

The database "Panorama" offers access to 485 inventories of communal archives in the canton of Vaud (approx. 195 000 entries). The oldest inventory dates from 1401.
There are different search modes (full text, field, archiv plan, descriptor).

GLN 15-16 is a bibliography of books published in the 15th and 16th centuries in the cities of Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel, plus the city of Morges. As of that date, the database contains 4'732 entries.

Spezialsammlungen Digital is a lose collection of highlights from the Special Colletions of the ETH-Library in Zurich, Switzerland. The postings will offer a comprehensive overview of our holdings.
The Special Collections of the ETH-Bibliothek hold for example a comprehensive picture collection, modern topographical and thematic maps, rare and valuable old prints, manuscripts and personal papers by scientists as well as the administrative archives of the ETH Zurich. Included is one of Europe's largest report collections.