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E-newspaperarchives.ch
e-newspaperarchives.ch (or e-npa.ch) is a website run by the Swiss National Library which provides free digitized archives of many Swiss newspapers. It is the successor to the Swiss Press Online site started in 2011, which it succeeded in 2018. , it provides access to 200 Swiss newspapers in several languages. History The Swiss National Library created its initial digitization strategy in 2009, in which it prioritized newspapers and the press. Their recommendations include respect for copyright and partnering with related institutions. Swiss Press Online was launched on 28 September 2011 by the Swiss National Library and Valais Médiathèque, due to a desire by several cantonal institutions to digitize and pool their newspaper resources. It was launched on the day that the digitized version of the ''Confedédéré'' publication was released,'''' which was the service's pilot project. Soon after this several other institutions joined their archives to the project. In 2017 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazette De Berne
''Gazette de Berne'' was a newspaper published in Bern, Switzerland, from 1689 to 3 March 1798. Officially, the newspaper published in Bern was called ''Nouvelles de divers endroits'' from 1689 to 1787 and ''Nouvelles politiques'' from 1788 to 1798, but it was known as the ''Gazette de Berne''. From 1677 and up to 1688, another newspaper was published in Bern, named ''La Gazette'', of which only a few numbers survive. History When the patrician received a concession from the State of Bern to operate a postal company in 1675, he was also given the task of supplying the authorities with newspapers from abroad. On this basis, Fischer entered the newspaper business and had his own newspapers printed in Bern. In 1689 he employed a French Huguenot, Antoine Teissier, as editor to produce the new newspaper, which appeared from 1689 to 1798. The next editors were Jean-Jacques Despraz (active in 1721), André de Maucourant (from 1734 to 1767), Antoine Delorme (in 1768) followed by Franç ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Nouvelliste (Switzerland)
' () is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper, published in Sion, Valais, by the publishing company Éditions Le Nouvelliste SA. A regional newspaper for the Valais canton, it was established in 1903 in Saint-Maurice by Charles Haegler. At first, it was published three times a week, then became a daily newspaper in 1929. History The paper was founded by Charles Haegler, the paper's editor-in-chief in 1903 in Saint-Maurice as the , aiming to cover all of the Valais Canton. Its first issue was printed 17 November 1903. The paper was conservative and Catholic in orientation. The paper was published three times a week until 1928, after which it became a daily, the first Valais paper to do so. Haegler was succeeded by André Luisier ad editor-in-chief in 1949, who merged the paper with another paper from Saint-Maurice, , together forming the , which after 1960 was printed in Sion. This paper then merged with the in 1968, to form the , renamed in 2005 . Starting in 1971, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss National Library
The Swiss National Library (, , , ) is the national library of Switzerland. Part of the Federal Office of Culture, it is charged with collecting, cataloging and conserving information in all fields, disciplines, and media connected with Switzerland, as well as ensuring the widest possible accessibility and dissemination of such data. The Swiss National Library is intended to be open to all and, by the breadth and scope of its collection, aims to reflect the plurality and diversity of Swiss culture. It is a Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance, heritage site of national significance. History On June 28, 1894 the Federal Assembly (Switzerland), Swiss parliament created the library with the responsibility of collecting "Helvetica": all publications relating to the Swiss and Switzerland. In 1899, the library opened to the public in the Swiss Federal Archives, Federal Archives building. In 1931, the library moved to a newly-constructed building on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scriptorium (website)
''Scriptorium'' is the digital library of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne, part of the University of Lausanne in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was launched on 7 December 2012 and initially included more than a million pages of digital newspaper, digitized newspapers published in Vaud canton. All of the content is freely available to the public and the site allows full-text search through its entire collection. History It was launched on 7 December 2012 by the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (BCU), part of the University of Lausanne in the Swiss canton of Vaud, and initially included more than a million pages of digital newspaper, digitized newspapers published in Vaud canton. The initiative was done with the support of the Tamedia publishing group and the Swiss National Library, in an effort to preserve the history of the canton The first paper digitized was ''24 heures (Switzerland), 24 heures'' and its predecessor paper . In their annual report, BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Switzerland
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Archives
In computer technology and telecommunications, online indicates a state of connectivity, and offline indicates a disconnected state. In modern terminology, this usually refers to an Internet connection, but (especially when expressed as "on line" or "on the line") could refer to any piece of equipment or functional unit that is connected to a larger system. Being online means that the equipment or subsystem is connected, or that it is ready for use. "Online" has come to describe activities and concepts that take place on the Internet, such as online identity, online predator and online shop. A similar meaning is also given by the prefixes cyber and e, as in words ''cyberspace'', ''cybercrime'', ''email'', and ''e-commerce''. In contrast, "offline" can refer to either computing activities performed while disconnected from the Internet, or alternatives to Internet activities (such as shopping in brick-and-mortar stores). The term "offline" is sometimes used interchangeably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Digital Libraries
Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland *Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located in Baghdad, Iraq *Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports * Swiss International Air Lines **Swiss Global Air Lines, a subsidiary *Swissair, former national air line of Switzerland * .swiss alternative TLD for Switzerland See also *Swiss made, label for Swiss products *Swiss cheese (other) *Switzerland (other) *Languages of Switzerland, none of which are called "Swiss" *International Typographic Style, also known as Swiss Style, in graphic design *Schweizer (other), meaning Swiss in German *Schweitzer Schweitzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), German theologian, musician, physician, and medical missionary, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archives In Switzerland
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the history and function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on the grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Ticino
Ticino ( ), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eight districts and its capital city is Bellinzona. It is also traditionally divided into the Sopraceneri and the Sottoceneri, respectively north and south of Monte Ceneri. Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. It is one of the three large southern Alpine cantons, along with Valais and the Grisons. However, unlike all other cantons, it lies almost entirely south of the Alps and has no natural access to the Swiss Plateau. Through the main crest of the Gotthard and adjacent mountain ranges, it borders the canton of Valais to the northwest, the canton of Uri to the north and the canton of Grisons to the northeast; the latter canton being also the only one to share some borders with Ticino at the level of the plains. The canton shares international borders with Italy as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grisons
The Grisons (; ) or Graubünden (),Names include: * ; *Romansh language, Romansh: ** ** ** ** ** **; * ; * ; * . See also list of European regions with alternative names#G, other names. more formally the Canton of the Grisons or the Canton of Graubünden, is one of the twenty-six cantons of Switzerland, cantons of Switzerland. It has eleven districts, and its capital is Chur. The German language, German name of the canton, , translates as the "Grey Leagues", referring to the canton's origin in three local alliances, the Three Leagues. The other native names also refer to the Grey League: in Sutsilvan, in the other forms of Romansh language, Romansh, and in Italian language, Italian. is the Latin name for the area. The Alpine ibex is the canton's heraldic symbol. The largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland, it is also one of the three large southern Alps, Alpine cantons, along with Valais and Ticino. It is the most diverse canton in terms of natural and cultural ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Impartial
() was a Swiss French language daily newspaper published by in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel. Published since 1881, it was a sister newspaper to ''L'Express.'' The last edition of the newspaper was published on 22 January 2018. It merged with ''L'Express'' to create ''ArcInfo''. History The paper was founded by Alexandre Courvoisier in 1881 in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The publisher of the paper took over the Le Locle paper in 1967, giving its publisher a monopoly of journalism in the northern part of the canton. In 1992, Gassman AG (owner of the and newspapers) bought a majority of shares in . In 1996, it partially merged with another Neuchâtel newspaper, '. Afterwards, the two papers shared much of the same content and an editorial team, but differed in some of their regional coverage. No jobs were lost at either paper in the process of the merger. The publishing companies behind both papers merged in 1999, forming the . It merged with to create ''ArcInfo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Express (Switzerland)
() was a Swiss regional French-language daily newspaper published in Neuchâtel. It was published by . Originally founded in 1738 as the , it was renamed the (FAN) in 1766. It was renamed ''L'Express'' in 1988. It was the oldest still-published French-language newspaper in the world, before it was merged in 2018 with ''L'Impartial'', another Swiss French-language paper, to form ''ArcInfo''. History Originally founded in 1738 as the , and was renamed the in 1766. It was created as a weekly, before becoming a twice weekly paper in 1855, a thrice weekly paper in 1873, and eventually becoming a daily newspaper in 1884. The merged with another Neuchâtel paper, ', in 1964. The original ', the other main daily paper of the city, had been founded in 1891; the combined paper later took its name, and was renamed ' in 1988. covered international, national and local issues. The newspaper's circulation was 28,490 in 2003. It was not tied to any political party, but was generally po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
