Archives Online is a meta search portal for finding archival material in the participating archives. Archives Online searches publicly accessible metadata and documents in the linked online databases of the participating archives.

Participating Archives:

• Archives of Contemporary History
• State Archives Basel-Stadt
• State Archives Thurgau
• State Archives Zug
• State Archives Zurich

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.

This website provides information on the federal councillors since 1848: term of office, election results, short biography, departments, etc. It also provides access to Presidents and vice-presidents of the Confederation, Heads of Departement and Members of the Federal Council who declined election.

FORS Data Services serves as a national resource center for research and teaching in the social sciences. The unit maintains a comprehensive and up-to-date inventory of social science research projects in Switzerland. In addition, the Data Services Archive Section is responsible for acquiring, processing, storing, and disseminating significant data files and metadata produced in the country. The primary objective of the FORS Data Services unit is to enhance research potential for researchers and students working and training in the social sciences, for example, by making available a rich corpus of data for secondary analysis.

This data base contains the research projects and other subsidies in all disciplines supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) since 1975. A search engine allows a detailed search of the database contents (it is also possible to limit the search to historical subjects).

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.

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.

Database containing information on research projects at the History Department.