swisscovery search profiles allows to search the inventory of more than 500 libraries in Switzerland, external resources (e.g. e-rara) and billions of e-resources such as journals articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc. This chapter offer a brief description of these resources.

E-Resources:

A wide array of open access and licensed digital media collections is available including databases, journals, daily newspapers, articles, film and audio streaming services. Access to individual electronic resources may be restricted to members of a particular institution, depending on the license conditions of the provider. To have accurate information about what is available, login in swisscovery and activate systems such as VPN, Eduroam, EZProxy, etc. 

Physical resources:

In swisscovery you can find all media, which the participating libraries have in their holdings on site. In addition to printed media such as books, magazines, and newspapers, this also includes other physical media such as images, film, and sound recordings, as well as precious manuscripts, old prints, letters, bequests and maps.

Digital objects:

The valuable holdings from the swisscovery libraries with special and historical collections are extensively digitized, indexed and prepared for immediate online use. In addition to books, journals and newspapers, these may also include manuscripts, letters, old prints as well as archive holdings and bequests from platforms such as e-rara, e-manuscripta and e-codices.

Consortium resources:

The consortium of Swiss university libraries acquires licenses for scientific resources (electronic journals, e-books and databases), which can also be searched on swisscovery. These include the so-called national licenses, which are available in full text not only to researchers, students and university staff, but also to all private users with permanent residence in Switzerland.

Institutional repositories:

Many universities make their researchers' and students' papers and theses freely available in open access online repositories. These repositories are also searched in swisscovery and linked directly to the publication in the interface of the respective repository.

Full text articles and more (CDI):

swisscovery searches also in the Central Discovery Index (CDI), a central unified index for scholarly and academic material worldwide. It contains over 5 billion records from thousands of publishers, aggregators, and repositories. 
Note: By default, the system searches also in the full-text of the CDI material; to exclude this possibility and reduce the number of results, switch off “Search in full-text (CDI)”.