Online resources

AATA online

Free access – Abstracts of International Conservation Literature (AATA) is a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by Getty since 1983. 

ABI/INFORM

ABI/INFORM is a database on the topics business and economics (management, finance and banking, accounting, trade, etc.), as well als engineering . More than a third of the resources are available in fulltext. ABI/INFORM Global and Trade&Industry are accesible. Provider: ProQuest.

ACM Digital Library

The Specialized portal of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in the field of computer science and information technology, divided into two databases: ‘ACM Full-Text Collection’ with the full texts of all ACM publications since 1954 and the ‘ACM Guide to Computing Literature’ with bibliographical references and abstracts from selected publishers since 1908. No access to eBooks.

Agricola

Bibliography of the National Agricultural Library, US Departement of Agriculture. Provider: Ovid.

AgriRxiv

Open Access – Collection of pre-prints in agronomy and related fields, published by CABI.

Agris

Free access – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) bibliography of international agricultural literature.

ARBOR

Open Access – The institutional repository of the Bern University of Applied Sciences offers a complete overview of all publications by BFH authors.

Archinform

Free access – International architecture database with information on more than 84,000 buildings and plans by important architects.

Art & Architecture Source

Database for visual and applied arts, design and architecture. Includes the databases Wilson Art Full-Text and Art Index Retrospective as well as 750 journals in full-text, references and abstracts from renowned international journals (USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland), 220 e-books and 63'000 images.

BASE

Open Access – BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed records for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

BDSL Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Specialised bibliography for general linguistics as well as English, German and Romance linguistics

Berg Fashion Library

The Berg Fashion Library offers texts and images on fashion from its beginnings to the present day. Contains images from the V&A Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the "Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion", ca. 150 e-books as well as a museum directory.

Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN)

Free access – BCIN, the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network, is the web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.

Business Source Premier

This database (business, marketing, management, finance, economics) contains bibliographic references plus more than 1'100 full-text journals as well market research, industry and country reports. Provider: EBSCO.

CAB Abstracts

CAB Abstracts contains references for agriculture and forestry, chemistry, nutrition, food technology and science, medicinal plants and pharmacology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, tourism, etc. 14 simultaneous users. Provider: Ovid.

ChemRxiv

Open Access – Pre-publication platform dedicated to early research outputs in a broad range of chemistry fields.

CINAHL Ultimate

Extensive resource for enquiry and research in nursing and related health professions: biomedicine, healthcare, complementary medicine, consumer health, etc. Contains over 2500 journals in full text. Provider: EBSCO

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library contains three databases: Systematic Reviews, Controlled Trials and Clinical Answers

CORE

Open Access – CORE brings together open access publications from various data providers such as repositories or publishers. CORE serves as a search engine for finding scientific full texts. The service can also be used as a tool for text and data mining or AI applications via public APIs.

DACH Information

The multidisciplinary database DACH Information offers a collection of German-language journals, magazines and professional publications in full text.
Subject areas include: art, business and economics, communication, education, law, history, humanities, linguistics, management, marketing, mathematics, nursing, psychology, social sciences and social work

DETAIL Inspiration

The DETAIL Inspiration database includes documentation of national and international projects with detailed construction drawings from issue 1/1961 of the magazine DETAIL.

Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ

Open Access –  a directory of quality-checked Open Access journals

DORA WSL

DORA is the digital repository and bibliography for all research articles and other publications affiliated with WSL, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.

EBSCO (search interface)

Search interface for all licensed EBSCO databases: Art & Architecture Source, Business Source Premier, CINAHL Complete, GreenFile, LISTA, RILM.

EconLit

Electronic bibliography of the American Economic Association (AEA): economic theories, production, country studies, trade, social indicators, etc. Provider: ProQuest.

Edition Soziothek

Edition Soziothek is the central platform for knowledge transfer between Universities of Applied Sciences and social work practice. Here social work professionals and students can access current literature on social work, including excellent academic theses.

Elsevier sciencedirect (search interface)

Elsevier's interdisciplinary search interface for the licensed Embase database, various e-journals and e-books. 

Embase

The Embase Database contains bibliographic records for biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology, toxicology and medical devices. 
The database can be searched using the Emtree thesaurus subject headings.

Emcare

The Emcare database covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medicine and healthcare-related social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency medicine and critical-care medicine.

e-periodica

Free full-text access to digitised Swiss journals about sciences and culture (including architecture and engineering).

ERIC

Documents about educational science from the Education Resources Information Center (US Department of Education). 
ERIC can be searched on two different platforms: Ovid and ProQuest.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

The Essential Science Indicators database highlights emerging science trends as well as influential individuals, institutions, papers, journals, and countries in scientific research fields. Data available for a 10 year rolling period and covers 22 fields of research.

Euwid Holz und Möbel

The comprehensive source of information for the wood and furniture industry

Fachportal Pädagogik

Literature database with full texts and bibliographic references for pedagogy, social pedagogy and social work.

Fedlex – the publication platform for federal law

The platform includes the Bundesblatt (Swiss Federal Gazette), the Amtliche Sammlung des Bundesrechts (official compilation and systematic collection of federal law), as well as international treaties and consultation procedures.

FIAF

The FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals contains article citations from the world's leading academic and popular film journals. Provider: ProQuest.

FIT-Nursing Care

Knowledge platform for evidence-based nursing

FSTA Food Science & Technology

Database with references from publications in the field of food science and technology as well as nutrition from 1969 onward. Provider: Ovid.

getAbstract

Text and audio summaries of the latest business literature from fields such as leadership, finance, innovation, technology and science. Register with your BFH email address for full access.

Google Scholar

Free access – Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine for academic documents. Google Scholar indexes full texts and metadata of academic articles, patents and books from all disciplines. Access to full text is dependent on the access licences of the BFH.

GreenFILE

GreenFILE contains information on the impact of humans on the environment. The following topics are covered: global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc. Provider: EBSCO.

Holzbaukultur

Free access – Holzbaukultur is a project of the Department of Architecture, Wood and Construction at the BFH. The database documents Swiss timber buildings from over six centuries. There is also a podcast in which the culture of timber construction is discussed.

IBA International Bibliography of Art

Applied art, architectural and art history, museum studies and conservation; bibliographic references from 2008 onward. IBA is the successor of BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art). Provider: ProQuest.

IBA – pre-2008

Free access – The pre-2008 BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) references are not included in IBA. They can be searched in this database. In addition to the BHA database from 1990 to 2007, the database also contains data from the Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989. 

IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences compiled by the library of the London School of Economics & Political Science contains bibliographic information for selected publications in Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology. Provider: ProQuest.

IEEE Xplore

Full-text database of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers with literature (journals, conference reports, standards) in electrical engineering, electronics, information and communication technology, and computer science. Also included are the IBM Journal of Research and Development, VDE Conference Proceedings in English, and the Bell Labs Technical Journal Archive.

INRAE

Open Access – HAL INRAE (hyper articles en ligne de l’institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) is an Open Access repository for depositing and consulting scientific publications of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment.

JBI Joanna Briggs Institute Databases

Healthcare database that includes  five publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices, Evidence Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, and Systematic Review Protocols. Ovid recommends using the Basic Search function to search this database. Provider: Ovid

JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. The BFH offers access to several JSTOR resource collections. 

Knovel

Fundamentals for engineers (handbooks, reference works) and interactive tools for calculations (equations, tables, graphs, unit converter). The following modules are licensed:

• Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
• Composites
• General Engineering & Project Administration
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
• Nondestructive Testing & Evaluation
• Sustainable Energy & Development

Kunstforum International Online Archiv

Find more than 25,000 texts and 200,000 images in what is probably the most comprehensive documentation of contemporary art history from 1973 to the present and search specifically for all topics and contents that move current art events. 
Single-user licence on site in the HKB Media Library.

Legalis

This legal database contains standard works from the Basler Kommentare series, short commentaries and selected handbooks. Journals published by Helbing & Lichtenhahn are also available.

LISA

Library and Information Sciences Abstracts LISA analyses more than 400 specialist journals on librarianship and information science from 1969 onwards. Provider: ProQuest.

LISTA

"Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts": Database for library and information sciences. References from more than 580 journals, books and conference reports from the mid-1960s. Provider: EBSCO.

Livivo

The search portal for medicine, healthcare, nutrition, environmental and agricultural sciences, with a focus on German-language publications. Provider: ZB Med Cologne

LSEG - Refinitiv Workspace

LSEG Workspace is a platform for providing financial and economic data. It provides access to market, company and macro data and is often used for empirical analysis in financial and economic research.
A key component of LSEG Workspace is DataStream, which is accessed via Microsoft Excel. DataStream provides a database of historical time series, including stock prices, stock indices, interest rates, exchange rates and macroeconomic indicators. 

Medline

Database of the National Library of Medicine (USA): clinical medicine, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology and pharmacy, dentistry, psychology and psychiatry, public health. Medline can be searched on three different platforms: Ovid, ProQuest or Web of Science (see also: Pubmed)

Music databases

On the website of the HKB Music Library you will find numerous music databases, specialised portals and other resources.

OpenAlex

Open Access – OpenAlex is a bibliographic database of the non-profit organisation OurResearch. OpenAlex contains the metadata for scientific publications, journals, authors and institutions. OpenAlex offers an alternative to commercial and closed databases such as Scopus or Web of Science, including a free API for text and data mining or AI applications.

OSF (Open Science Framework) Preprints

Open Access – Simultaneously search multiple subject preprints repositories.

Ovid (search interface)

Search interface for all licensed Ovid databases: Agricola, CAB Abstracts, Embase, ERIC, FSTA Food Science & Technology, JBI Joanna Briggs Institute Databases, Medline, PsycInfo, Psyndex.

Paperity

Open Access – Interdisciplinary full text database for articles from open access journals.

PEDro

Open Access – Database of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy of the University of Sydney, Australia.

Primal health research databank

Free access – Explore correlations between the 'primal period' (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) and health and personality traits in later life.

ProQuest (search interface)

Search interface for all licensed ProQuest databases: ABI Inform, Dissertations & Theses, EconLit, ERIC, FIAF, IBA, IBSS, LISA, LLBA, Medline, NCJRS, PTSDpubs, Sociological Abstracts.

PsycInfo (APA Psychinfo)

Psychology and related fields of interest: psychiatry, medical care, sociology, economics. Provider: Ovid.

Psyndex (PSYNDEX Databases)

PSYNDEX is the ZPID Leibniz Institute for Psychology reference database for publications from German-speaking countries, with literature in English and German from psychology and related disciplines. Includes research and praxis publications, tests, intervention programs and more, and can also be searched via PsychINFO.
Provider: Ovid.

PubAg

Free access – Database published by the National Agricultural Library of the US Department of Agriculture. The focus of the database is on recent scientific publications (1995-) in the field of agriculture, mainly peer-reviewed articles. The search results contain links to the full-text articles (DOI).

PubliSA

PubliSA collects German-language publications of all kinds that address social work and its social framework, its fields of work and its target groups. Bibliography, no full texts.

PubMed

Open Access – Contains the references of biomedical literature in Medline as well as life sciences journals and e-books. Free resource published by the US NIH (National Institutes of Health).

Saphir

Public health database (politics and economics of health, work safety, prevention and promotion of health, hospital management, etc.) compiled by several Swiss health libraries.

Social Services Abstracts

Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Social Services Abstracts is a part of Sociological Abstracts.

Sociological Abstracts

Social sciences, sociology and social work. Bibliographic references from 1952 to the present. Also includes Social Services Abstracts.

SpringerMaterials

Database covering all key topics in materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering and related fields: the world's most comprehensive collection of materials and substances with information on substance classes, types of use and applications, advanced data visualisation functions showing interactive crystal structures, data tables and phase diagrams with export options, search by elemental composition or chemical structures.

Structurae

Structurae offers information on structures and projects in structural engineering, and on other areas related to the design, planning and execution of these structures, such as product reports or profiles of companies and people.

Swisslex

The Swisslex legal database contains all decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, the other federal courts and most of the cantonal courts of last instance, as well as legal commentaries, monographs and specialist journals. 
Register with your BFH e-mail address.

waldwissen.net

Free access – Information for forestry practice

Web of Science

Multidispiplinary database; contains references to articles from journals, books, conference proceedings etc. in the fields of arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine and technology. Web of Science also offers various abstract and citation indices:

• Science Citation Index
• Social Science Citation Index (with economics)
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with architecture)
• Emerging Sources Citation Index
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science – Social Sciences & Humanities
• Journal Citation Reports JCR

Weblaw

The Lawyers' Portal provides access to a comprehensive legal bibliography, Jusletter, Richterzeitung and the Social Welfare Law Database. 
Registration with your BFH e-mail address: Click on the person icon in the top right-hand corner >  "Login" or "Forgot your password?" > "Neu anmelden bei Weblaw AG" > "I'm studying or working at a college/university." > Enter your BFH e-mail address

WISO

References to articles in German on sociology, social work, business and economics, political science. 

WTO iLibrary

WTO iLibrary is the online research depository of the World Trade Organization (WTO) featuring its publications, reports and other research material.

Dissertations & Theses (A&I)

References for more than 2.4 million dissertations and master's theses worldwide from 1861. Abstracts are available for dissertations from 1980 and for master's theses from 1988. Previews of the first 24 pages are available for some dissertations.

Eurostat

Free access – Statistics of the EU member countries; cooperation with the OECD and UN as well as with Central and Eastern European countries, the former Soviet Union and Mediterranean countries.

FSO: Interactive and visual tools

Interactive and visual offerings from the Federal Statistical Office FSO, including infographics, statistical atlases and STAT-TAB (interactive data to create statistical tables according to individual needs).

FSO: Statistical Yearbook of Switzerland

Free access – The Statistical Yearbook, published by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), has been the standard reference work for Swiss statistics since 1891. It presents the main statistical results for Switzerland and the people who live and work there.

OECDiLibrary

Full-text reports, statistics and studies from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Swiss-Impex

Swiss foreign trade statistics

e-newspaperarchives.ch

Free access – e-newspaperarchives.ch provides access to titles digitized by the Swiss National Library and its cantonal Partners.

Factiva

A database for press, corporate and business information offered by Dow Jones. It contains up-to-date sources from 200 countries in 32 languages, including newspapers, news agencies, industry publications, websites, company reports in full text.

Orbis

Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide. Use it to research individual companies, search for companies by profile and analyse companies. Also contains market research reports from Marketline.

Searching in Orbis is generally possible without a login. With the BFH login, you can create a personal user account if required and save search and filter settings, for example.

Regional Business News

Contains regional business publications from the United States and Canada.

Swissdox

Swissdox contains Swiss daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and journals, press agencies, online media as well as newspapers that are no longer published from 1780 until today.

Swissdox is updated daily. You can display all articles from a current newspaper edition by

• leaving the search field for search terms empty
• selecting "Today" in the next field using the drop-down menu or entering the exact date of the desired day, e.g. 2022-09-08 to 2022-09-08
• "Select newspaper"
• clicking on the red "Search" button.

Derwent Innovations Index

Patent information from 60 patent offices worldwide dating back to 1963. Includes titles and abstracts, own indexing in addition to IPC (International Patent Classification), combination of patents from multiple patent issuing authorities into a single patent family for easy and complete discovery of each invention, patent references. Translation of non-English patents into English. Accessible via Web of Science.

Espacenet

Free access – Database of the European Patent Office, which offers free access to over 150 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1782 to the present day.

IGE IPI

Free access – Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property: Website with links to patent databases in Switzerland and worldwide for free self-research

E-Learning "The basics of national and international standardization"

Free access – Using a case study, this course covers what standards are, what added value standards create, how standards are established and how to be involved, and which are the main national and international standards organizations. Duration approx. 30 minutes.

ETSI

Free access – Standards in the field of telecommunications, broadcasting and other electronic communications networks and services developed by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), a European standardisation organisation. ETSI standards can be downloaded free of charge in PDF format.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE standards are international technical standards for electrical engineering, electronics, information and communication technology and computer science.

SNV-Connect

In addition to references, it contains the full texts of all ISO standards as well as current Swiss standards:

• SWISSMEM
• Electrosuisse
• INB Interdisciplinary standards section (SNV)
• SIA

The full texts can be saved and printed as PDF. They may not be passed on to third parties. Log in with your SWITCH edu-ID.

SNV-Connect also offers the Standards compendium 2022 (read only).

VSS Standards

Standards of the Swiss association of road and transportation experts.

Students can register free of charge. This gives them access to the complete digital body of VSS standards and publications.

Art & Architecture Source

Database for visual and applied arts, design and architecture. Includes the databases Wilson Art Full-Text and Art Index Retrospective as well as 750 journals in full-text, references and abstracts from renowned international journals (USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland), 220 e-books and 63'000 images.

Artstor

Collections of images from museums, private collectors, photographic agencies, photographers of architecture, etc. for use in research and teaching.

Deutsche Fotothek

The Deutsche Fotothek in the SLUB Dresden is one of the most important image archives in Europe with a collection of around seven million photographs and an online offering of currently around two million image media. Its aim is to preserve and activate important examples of analog and digital photography through online presentation, exhibitions and publications.

ETH E-Pics Image Archive

In the image archive of the ETH library more than 500'000 images are available for free download, 100'000 of these images are in the public domain and can be used without restrictions. The collection includes photos of Swiss history of science and technology, the archives of Swissair and the Fotostiftung Schweiz as well as the Baugeschichtliche Archiv of the city of Zurich.

Foto Marburg image archive

The Foto Marburg image archive, founded in 1913 by art historian Richard Hamann, belongs to Philipps University of Marburg and is the German Documentation Centre for Art History. It is one of the largest image archives on European art and architecture.

heidICON

heidICON is the digital and interdisciplinary object and multimedia repository of Heidelberg University Library. It contains images, video and audio data as well as other multimedia material for research and teaching.  

Rijksmuseum Studio

More than 500'000 images of works in the museum's collection have been digitised; 200'000 of these images are available in the Rijksmuseum Studio and can be freely adapted.

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)

As part of the Google Art Project this museum has digitised in high resolution approximately 40'000 images of works of art in the public domain, which can be used and adapted by the public.

Filmfriend

Over 3500 selected films and series, including a selection especially for children and young people. Access is via Switch edu-ID and requires SLSKey authorisation from the Media and Information Centre MIZ of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK or the ZB Zürich.

MIZ Video online

MIZ Video online contains TV programs that the Media and Information Centre MIZ of the Zurich University of the Arts records using the web-based video recorder nanoo.tv. The films are listed in swisscovery and can be accessed online in streaming format. Access is via Switch edu-ID and requires SLSkey authorisation from the MIZ.

A selection of platforms and repositories devoted to the search for and reuse of open research data, curated by BFH Data Stewards.

Interdisciplinary Platforms

DataCite Commons

DataCite is an international consortium that handles research data management. In addition, it assigns DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for persistent identification of research outputs. DataCite Commons, a meta-search engine for repositories, includes, among other things, DRYAD and Zenodo.

OLOS                               

OLOS is a Swiss solution for the management, deposit, exchange, publication and preservation of research data. Because the BFH is a member OLOS, BFH employees can utilize it to publish their research data.

Opendata.ch

A collection of open data resources from the Opendata Association Opendata.ch.

re3data

The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) is an interdisciplinary directory of research repositories. Participating institutions are the Library of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Helmholtz Open Science Office at the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, and Purdue University.

Discipline-specific collections

arthistoricum.net

A discipline-specific information service for art, photography and design, operated by the Heidelberg University Library and the Saxon State and University Library, SLUB. Main focal points: European art history up to 1945 and general art history and art from 1945 onwards, photography, industrial design and commercial graphic design.

arthistoricum.net@heiDATA

arthistoricum.net@heiDATA is the research data repository of arthistoricum.net, operated as a part of the research repository heiData at Heidelberg University. It serves as a disciplinary repository for the fields of art history, photography and design, classical and ancient studies, and South Asian studies.

DARIAH-CH

DARIAH-CH is the national branch of the European research infrastructure DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) and resides with the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH).

DaSCH

The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) is a data- and service-provider center for research data in the humanities.

Maddison Historical Statistics

The Maddison-Project was initiated in 2010 by a group of close colleagues of the economist Angus Maddison, with the goal of supporting effective collaboration between research scholars, in order to carry forward Maddison’s work of measuring the economic performance of various regions, periods and sub-sectors.

Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI)

The Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI) is an international research structure whose object is the reciprocal and mutual access to research data, digital resources and reference data. The content is oriented towards the disciplines of art history, design history, photographic history, film studies, architechture and urban development history, archaeology, historical sciences, religious studies, other image-based disciplines, and digital humanities.

SWISSUbase

SWISSUbase is a national platform for the exchange and preservation of research data with multi-lingual, discipline-specific metatdata. It serves the social sciences, linguistics and other disciplines.

(Inter)national Organisation Data

Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS)

As the national competence center for public statistics, the Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) is the central connecting point for the Swiss data ecosystem. It supports and reinforces the entire public administration system in the area of data handling.

EU

EUDAT is a European initiative that provides infrastructure for research data management.

OECD

The OECD Data Explorer is operated by the Organization for economic collaboration and development (OECD).

Opendata.swiss

The opendata.swiss portal is a joint project of the federal government, cantons, cities and other governmental entities, operated by the Bundesamt für Statistik BFS (Federal Statistical Office). It provides access for the general public to open governmental data via a central catalog. Some cantons and citites operate additional open-data portals, for example the Stadt Zürich and the Kanton Zürich.

United Nations

The UNdata platform is operated by the UN Statistics Division (UNSD).

WHO

The Global Health Observatory is operated by the World Health Organization (WHO).