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Type of site | Online newspaper archive |
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Available in | 2 languages |
List of languages French, English | |
Country of origin | Switzerland |
Owner | Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne |
URL | scriptorium |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 7 December 2012 |
Current status | Online |
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. All of the content is freely available to the public and the site allows full-text search through its entire collection.
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.[1] The initiative was done with the support of the Tamedia publishing group and the Swiss National Library, in an effort to preserve the history of the canton[1][2] The first paper digitized was 24 heures and its predecessor paper Feuille d'avis de Lausanne.[1]
In their annual report, BCU reported 2,973,638 visits to Scriptorium Digital Library for its first full year of availability (2013).[3] As of 2022, there were 7.5 million pages in 120 titles.[4]
All of the content is freely available to the public on the Scriptorium website. Scriptorium allows full-text search through its entire collection.[1][5] The pages can be printed, sent by email or downloaded. Search can be done with keywords, dates or the specific publication.[4][2]
Scriptorium includes the following digital collections: