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Burkhardt, Martin: Arbeiten im Archiv. Praktischer Leitfaden für Historiker und andere Nutzer, Paderborn 2006 (UTB).

Dobson, Miriam: Reading primary sources : the interpretation of texts from nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, London 2009 (Routledge guides to using historical sources).

Harvey, Karen: History and material culture : a student’s guide to approaching alternative sources, London 2009 (Routledge guides to using historical sources).

MacNeil, Heather: Trusting records : legal, historical and diplomatic perspectives, Dordrecht [etc.] 2000 (The archivist’s library).

O’Toole, James M.: Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, Chicago 1990 (Archival fundamental series).

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Editionen-Datenbank von infoclio.ch. The database contains the current historical edition projects in Switzerland, based on a survey of 2014.

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Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke (zvdd). Digitised printed works from the fifteenth century until the present day.

Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz (dodis). Online database for the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland project, containing comprehensive information on documents, persons, organisations, geographical terms and bibliographic data relating to Switzerland’s foreign relations.

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transcriptiones. Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.

Ad fontes. A course at the University of Zürich for (aspiring) archival researchers, with a focus on palaeography.