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  • Continuing education offerings

    • All continuing education programmes
    • MAS – Master of Advanced Studies
    • MBA – Master of Business Administration
    • CAS – Certificate of Advanced Studies
    • Information events
  • About continuing education

  • Strategic action fields

    • Future Health
    • New Work
    • Zero Emission
  • Research and services

    • Projects
  • Collaboration

  • International

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    • ChallengeEU
    • Latin American Centre
    • International Offices
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    • Study abroad (outgoing)
    • Information for incoming students
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    • Swiss Challenge entrepreneurs’ programme
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Our e-resources are accessible to all FHNW members within the FHNW network.

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For access outside the FHNW network, you need to install Cisco Anyconnect VPN. Instructions and further information can be found on Inside FHNW.

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  • Licensed e-resources are intended for personal use and for use in the context of research and teaching only. Any commercial use is prohibited.
  • The full texts (PDFs) may not be passed on to third parties either electronically or in printed form or made accessible to third parties on the internet.
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  • It is usually not permitted to upload content (PDFs, etc.) from e-resources to reference lists such as Moodle. This also applies to password-protected areas. Direct links to e-journals, e-books, articles and book chapters are permitted.
  • Systematic downloading of full texts or search results - also for the purpose of text and data mining - is often prohibited or requires an interface (API), which is sometimes subject to a fee. Please direct any inquiries in this regard to emedien@fhnw.ch.
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E-resources and AI

The FHNW Library has agreements with various publishers and providers, specifying the conditions for the use of licensed content. Learn more about the use of licensed content in generative AI tools.

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