ä, ö, ü are equivalent to the vowels a, o, u.
You can omit the accents: e instead of é or è.
Wild cards / truncation:
? (question mark) replaces one single character.
* (asterisk) replaces an undetermined number of characters.
Booleen operators:
AND (by default) and NOT allow to limit the search, OR allows to extend it.
Subject searches are only available for documents published since 1950.
Examples
Quick search with words in all fields of the record (anywhere):
(city OR cities OR urban*) AND mobil*
ISSN: 0379-6256 (with or without hyphen)
ISBN: 9263104751 or 9783275015269 (10 or 13 digits with or without hyphens)
Extraction codes for digitised publications
| xdigicoll | Digitised collections, including: |
|---|---|
| xcar | Cahiers d’archéologie romande |
| xent | Entretiens sur l’antiquité classique |
| xkunst1902 | Art books before 1902 |
| xlivcar | Livre à la carte = E-Book on Demand (EOD) |
| xmundart | Projekt Mundarten = Project Dialects |
| xrara | Helvetica Rara |
| xrektoratsreden | Rektoratsreden = Rectorate speeches |
| xseals | Swiss journals on retro.seals.ch = www.e-periodica.ch |
| xsgg | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte |
| xsichler | Bibliography Sichler |
| xzs | Individual digitised journals and newspapers |
| xicrc | International Committee of the Red Cross |
Extraction codes for digital publications
| xehelv | Digital born publications, including: |
|---|---|
| xwas | Web Archive Switzerland |
| chpart | Swiss parties |
| eidg.feste | Federal festivals |
| euro2008 | European Football Championship 2008 (Austria / Switzerland) |
| olympiaYYYY | Summer and Winter Olympics [Year] |
| parlvolabs | Federal votes |
| wahlenYYYY | Federal elections [Year] |
| x175jahbunver | 175 years of the Swiss Constitution |
| xcov-19 | Special collection Covid-19 |
| xediss | Doctoral Theses (dissertations) |
| xepbund | Federal periodical publications |
| xesupp | Monographically catalogued Karger supplements |
| xfrepfe | Freiberger horse |
| xfrstre | Women's voting rights |
| xpop | Commercial publications |
| xukrkri | War in Ukraine |
| xwikipedia | Wikipedia articles |