The BCUL provides access to a wide variety of digital press resources. Some of this offer is available online from anywhere, while other parts require a connection to the BCUL site’s Wi-Fi or VPN access for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities.

Pressreader

6,000 newspapers from 100 countries available for download on computers and through the Pressreader app (iOS and Android). Pressreader offers the possibility to download magazines and daily newspapers from Switzerland, France, and about a hundred other countries worldwide. It covers various topics: news, music, sports, gastronomy, economics, technology, and more. Among the daily publications:

  • Le Temps
  • Libération
  • L’Équipe
  • NZZ
  • Corriere del Ticino
  • Corriere della Sera
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The New York Times
  • El País

Connection: Outside the premises of the BCUL, access requires authentication using a library card number and associated password through the “Library or Group” login and selecting “Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (BCUL).”

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Scriptorium

With Scriptorium, you can primarily access our archives of digitized press from the Vaud region:

  • 24 Heures / Feuille d’avis de Lausanne (from 1762, excluding the last ten years)
  • Le Matin / La Tribune de Lausanne (from 1862, excluding the last ten years)
  • La Revue / Nouvelle Revue de Lausanne (1868-2002)
  • Regional newspapers from Est Vaudois, Vallée de Joux, Nord Vaudois, La Côte, etc.
  • Illustrated magazines, including L’Hebdo, L’Illustré, or TV 8-Radio TV
  • Satirical newspapers
  • Socialist press

Are you curious? Also, check out the Swiss gazettes from the Enlightenment, the Yverdon Encyclopedia, or personal manuscripts.

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Europresse

A database offering access to thousands of sources, in French and English, covering international, national, regional, and local news in the form of newspapers and press outlets (daily, magazine, professional), specialized publications, biographical profiles, and company profiles, news feeds, etc. Among the newspapers available in PDF are:

  • 24 Heures
  • Le Matin Dimanche
  • Le Temps
  • Tribune de Genève
  • Le Monde

Connection: Access in the BCUL premises via site Wi-Fi, or for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities via VPN.

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Swissdox.ch

A news and archive site providing access to nearly all Swiss press titles, printed or online. It contains most newspapers and periodicals from the year 2000. Full-text articles.

Connection: Access in the BCUL premises via site Wi-Fi, or for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities via VPN.

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Cairn.info

A database providing access to a collection of specialized magazines in sciences, humanities, and social sciences, including:

  • Alternatives économiques
  • Sciences humaines
  • Pour la science
  • Cerveau & Psycho
  • Questions internationales

Connection: Access in the BCUL premises via site Wi-Fi, or for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities via VPN.

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Heidi.news

Heidi.news is a Swiss online news and investigative media platform, independent and ad-free.

Connection: Access in the BCUL premises via site Wi-Fi, or for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities via VPN.

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Nature

Nature is a weekly international journal that publishes some of the best peer-reviewed research in science and technology.

Connection: Access in the BCUL premises via site Wi-Fi, or for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities via VPN.

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Bon pour la tête

Bon pour la tête is an independent online media platform created after the disappearance of L’Hebdo, with a clear intention to maintain a critical distance on news and its relentless flow.

Connection: Access in the BCUL premises via site Wi-Fi, or for UNIL-CHUV-HEP communities via VPN.

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