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 digitized newspapers published in Vaud canton.

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Scriptorium
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Type of site
Online newspaper archive
Available in2 languages
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French, English
Country of originSwitzerland
OwnerCantonal and University Library of Lausanne
URLscriptorium.bcu-lausanne.ch
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Launched7 December 2012
Current statusOnline
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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,[1] and initially included more than a million pages of digitized newspapers published in Vaud canton. In their annual report, BCU reported 2,973,638 visits to Scriptorium Digital Library for its first full year of availability (2013).[2] By the end of 2013, the collection had grown to 2,153,176 pages.[3][4][5][6]

Features

All of the content is freely available to the public on the Scriptorium website. Scriptorium allows full-text search through its entire collection. Every word that is found is highlighted directly on scanned images.

List of newspapers

Scriptorium includes the following digital collections:

  • 24 heures
  • Annonces et avis divers
  • Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne
  • Feuille périodique
  • Allez savoir!
  • UNI Lausanne
  • Uniscope
  • Almanach Balthasar
  • Almanach de Chalamala
  • Chut
  • Croquis vaudois
  • Gribouille et Redzipe
  • La Bombe
  • La Cancoire
  • La Crecelle
  • La Fronde
  • La Griffe
  • La Guêpe
  • La Lanterne de Petollion
  • La Marge
  • La Pomme
  • L'Arbalète
  • Le Bistouri
  • Le Bonjour de Jack Rollan
  • Le Canard libre
  • Le Charivari
  • Le Clairon du Nord
  • Le Frondeur
  • Le Grelot
  • Le Journal de Jack Rollan
  • Le Kangourou
  • Le Moniteur
  • Le Moustique
  • Le Passe-Temps
  • Le Père Jérôme
  • Le Semeur
  • Mépris
  • Propos vaudois
  • Domaine Public
  • Journal helvétique
  • Mercure suisse
  • Messager boiteux
  • Nouvelliste suisse
  • L'Estafette: Journal suisse
  • Le Matin - Lausanne
  • Presse Lausannoise
  • Tribune de Lausanne - Le Matin
  • Tribune de Lausanne et Estafette
  • La petite revue
  • La revue
  • La revue agricole
  • La revue de Lausanne
  • La revue du dimanche
  • Lausanne-Soir
  • Nouvelle revue
  • Nouvelle revue de Lausanne
  • Nouvelle revue de Lausanne et du Pays de Vaud
  • Nouvelle revue et journal politique
  • Nouvelle revue hebdo
  • L'ami de la vérité: journal du Canton de Vaud
  • Le nouvelliste vaudois
  • Nouvelliste vaudois: journal liberal démocratique
  • Nouvelliste vaudois et journal national suisse
  • Journal de Charles Constant

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