A connection to the university network is required to use licensed e-journals and e-books.

Licensed e-journals and e-books can be accessed in the swisscovery Basel library catalog or in the legal databases, which also contain most Swiss e-journals and e-books.

BrowZine Library: Search entry for e-journals of the University of Basel

Daily and weekly newspapers:

• Swissdox (Swiss media database: e.g. NZZ, BAZ, TA
• Press database Factiva: e.g. The Times, The New York Times, Die Zeit, Die Welt
• PressReader: e.g. NZZ, Tagesspiegel, The Guardian, Le Figaro
• NexisUni: e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Le Monde, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel
• The New York Times or register free of charge with your Unibas e-mail address: https://www.nytimes.com/passes
• Frankfurter Allgemeine, Financial Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung: Registration info

Licensed packages:

• Brill (to filter by: International Law or Human Rights and Humanitarian Law) EBS
• Cambridge Core (lizenziert bis 2026)
• De Gruyter
• IBFD (E-Books der Tax Research Platform)
• Mohr Siebeck (selected journals and titles)
• Inlibra (formerly Nomos eLibrary (selected titles; incl. Enzyklopädie Europarecht, 2nd ed)
• Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO): Law and Criminology (ab 2009)
• Oxford Reference Licence
• Routledge Handbooks Online (RHO) (EBA 2025)
• Springer Link E-Book Collection Licence (ab 2005)

Open Access publications from Swiss university repositories are available in swisscovery (only the contents of the University of Basel edoc repository are provided proof in swisscovery Basel).