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The Swiss catalogue covers official federal law, federal and cantonal case law, doctrinal commentary, and the commercial register. Every source except Stämpfli is Included — free, with no connection and no credentials — though Onlinekommentar is switched on per team rather than for every Swiss workspace. Stämpfli Legal Premium is the one Add-on, bought inside Libra as a module. There is nothing to connect either way. The Swiss sources appear in the Research picker as soon as you tick Switzerland in the Jurisdictions selector at the top of the panel — Stämpfli once the module is on your team’s subscription and a license is assigned to you.
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Default Swiss stack: Fedlex + OpenCaseLaw — statute plus jurisprudence, both free. Add Stämpfli when you need doctrine, and Zefix for who is this entity.

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Sources for Switzerland

Onlinekommentar costs nothing, but it has to be switched on for your team. If it isn’t in your Research picker, ask us at contact@libratech.ai.

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Combining the Swiss sources

The sources answer different questions, so pick the combination that matches the matter rather than turning everything on.

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Common questions

The Swiss sources are gated on jurisdiction, not on a connection. Open Research in the composer and look at the Jurisdictions selector at the top of the panel: if Switzerland isn’t ticked, none of the Swiss sources are listed. Ticking it is your own preference, not something your firm assigns, so this is a fix you can make yourself — see Research mode.
No. Libra reads the Classified Compilation and always returns the version in force today. It doesn’t reach the Official Compilation (AS / RO), the Federal Gazette (BBl / FF), or any earlier version of an act. Follow the citation link to fedlex.admin.ch and pick the point-in-time text there.
Cantonal legislation is not in Libra — Fedlex publishes federal law only, so you’ll need a cantonal source directly. Cantonal case law is covered: both OpenCaseLaw and Entscheidsuche include the decisions the cantonal courts publish, alongside the federal courts.
Both cover Swiss case law and draw on the same body of published decisions, so you rarely need both at once. Entscheidsuche searches the entscheidsuche.ch portal; OpenCaseLaw is a CC0 project that mirrors and normalises those decisions into its own database. See Entscheidsuche for the side-by-side comparison.
Broad, but not exhaustive: both sources can only reach what each court chooses to publish online, and cantonal practice varies. For court-bound work, verify the decision through the publishing court or your firm’s primary research source.

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Tips

“Under OR…”, “Under ZGB…”, “Under StGB…” — abbreviations are matched exactly against the act’s short title, so they resolve far more reliably than a full title spelled out.
Swiss federal law is published in German, French and Italian, and citations carry the language version they were read from. Libra defaults to your interface language; if you need the French text of an article, ask in French or say “give the French version”.
Statute plus cases is the default Swiss research pattern, and both are Included — it costs nothing to enable them together.

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Next steps

Research mode

Use Swiss sources in any chat.

Setting up integrations

The general setup walkthrough.