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Electronic Dissertations at the University of St. Gallen (EDIS)

EDIS-HSG is a project of the University of St. Gallen which aims for the electronic publication of dissertations. It offers the possibility of publishing electronically created documents on the web, so that a specific search is possible.
The dissertations are available in the PDF format.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
application/pdf - *.pdf - AdobePDFfiles
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Statistics
Review Date: 
22.06.2010
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Swiss Rural History Society (SRHS)

Characteristics
History

Up to the 20th century a majority of the people in Switzerland lived and worked in rural areas. The aim of the Swiss Rural History Society (SRHS), established in 2009, is to emphasize the importance of the countryside in historical research. The SRHS initiates and supports research on rural history, brings together researchers on all periods and acts as a link to foreign and international institutions.

Research

to coordinate and represent the concerns of rural history researchers;

to work on and encompass all historical periods;

to integrate the various different current approaches to rural history;

to operate as a platform for the exchange of information and ideas between institutions (archives, history associations, research and educational institutions, museums etc.);

to link all those interested in rural history at a local, regional, national and international level;

to function as an interface for potentially interested institutions in rural history.

Postal address
Villettemattstrasse 9
3007
Bern
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 31 9117255
Staff
Statistics

ARAMIS information system

The ARAMIS information system contains information regarding research, development and evaluation projects of the Swiss Federal Administration. It is intended, Government and Parliament willing, to provide information to interested parties about the research projects funded or implemented by the Swiss Confederation, as well as to improve coordination and establish transparency.
ARAMIS is equipped with a search engine that can be used to search for all public projects in the ARAMIS database.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Restriction: 
None
Statistics
Review Date: 
28.07.2010
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Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries makes an online-overwiew about his products (databases, e-books, electronic journals and other e-textes) with detailed informations available.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Statistics
Review Date: 
03.08.2009
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HelveticArchives

HelveticArchives is the online database maintaining the archival collections of the Swiss National Library (NL). Die Datenbank enthält Angaben zu den Beständen der Graphischen Sammlung (GS) und des Schweizerischen Literaturarchivs (SLA). Tne Catalog contains the collections of the Prints and Drawings Department and of the Swiss Literary Archives (SLA).

In Helveticarchives you can currently find portrait photographs of important Swiss personalities as well as photographs of landscapes and localities from various Swiss cantons, historical photographs from The Federal Archives of Historical Monuments (FAHM) and over 7000 pictures from the photo collection of Annemarie Schwarzenbach.

HelveticatArchives includes also the Index of manuscript collections held in libraries and archives in Switzerland and the ISplus database, which contains a wide range of information on Swiss heritage institutions (Archives, Libraries and Museums) listed by canton in alphabetical order.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Restriction: 
None
Statistics
Review Date: 
22.06.2010
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SwissInfoDesk

SwissInfoDesk is a link collection that simplifies search for information about Switzerland. Information and documentation specialists at the Swiss National Library (NL) have selected and commented the links. Links are gathered by sub-topics and are described with a brief commentary. In the index, you can search keywords that drive you directly to the topic you are looking for.
Areas of interest: Swiss history, Swiss literature, Swiss Art as well as library and information sciences.
The website also provides a new alert service, and an order form for individualized research.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Restriction: 
None
Statistics
Review Date: 
22.06.2010
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