The Gosteli Foundation differentiates between the archives of Women’s organisations and Women’s unions, private archives of female individuals and biographical notes. Together, these records document the manifold activities of Swiss women since the late 19th century.
Online available are overviews about private archives and archives of women's organisations.

The archives also include:

• Magazines of the feminist movement
• Pamphlets on feminist issues
• Material on women’s professions, women in work, suffrage, women’s congresses and women’s exhibitions
• Theses, degree theses, licentiates and term papers
• Magazine collections
• Newspaper articles
• Audio and video material
• Collections of biographies of both Swiss and foreign women

The Archive on the history of women in Switzerland serve to hold the sources for the history of women. It offers opportunities and support to all researchers in their work. The archives maintain contact with institutions both at home and abroad.

The Library of the Tibet Institute is a specialized scientific library open to the public. With over 12’000 titles, it is one of the world’s largest libraries of Tibetology.
Books (including rare items such as the original edition of Guiseppe Tucci’s Tibetan Painted Scrolls), separate prints (documenting the foundation and construction of the monastery and the Tibetan people in Switzerland), journals and newspapers in Tibetan language, films, audio recordings, collection of maps, press documentation, photographic documentation.
The holdings of the library are availabel by a direct catalogue or by the catalogue IDS Zürich University.

DigiBern is a web offer by the University Library of Berne and includes digitized texts and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Berne city and the canton of Berne.

The Alliance Sud maintains publicly accessible documentation centres in Berne and Lausanne . They are directed at everybody dealing with North- South questions and developing countries. Information on more than 500 subjects from alphabetization to forced labour, on the social, political and economic situation of the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as Central and Eastern Europe. The documentation centre is freely accessible.
The website Alliance Sud also allows access to the on-line catalogue and to numerous documentary resources.