The Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) is a service provider for libraries and collaborates with them to run the national library platform swisscovery, which pools scientific information from currently 500 libraries in Switzerland and makes it easily accessible and simple to find. On behalf of the libraries, SLSP invoices the users of swisscovery for chargeable library services.
Our aim is to promote transformation in order to make it easy to access reliable information. With this in mind, we offer our customers solutions that allow them to provide their services effectively for their users and to improve those services on a continual basis.
During the development of SLSP and swisscovery, employees from various libraries supported the SLSP project team. Today, 50 employees work at the SLSP office.
The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries obtains licenses for scientific resources (electronic journals, eBooks and databases). It offers a broad range of services and supports the efforts to establish a national open access strategy. It therefore plays an instrumental role in guaranteeing the quality and competitiveness of Switzerland as a university and research hub. The office of the consortium is managed by SLSP.
These shareholders are the 15 founding institutions of the SLSP. They have invested financially and in terms of personnel in the development of the national library platform:
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Around 500 libraries are currently connected to SLSP’s national library platform swisscovery.