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Search portal ZHAW swisscovery

 

ZHAW swisscovery serves as a single point of entry to search all ZHAW University Library holdings. You will be able to find both print and digital materials with a single search query. Full texts from the ZHAW digitalcollection, the ZHAW's digital repository, are also included.

The national research platform swisscovery lists more than 40 million media (books, series, journals, non-book materials) and more than 3 billion electronic articles.

ZHAW digitalcollection

The ZHAW digitalcollection is the ZHAW's digital repository. As a document repository and publication service for ZHAW staff, it contains ZHAW publications (working papers and theses), secondary publications (green open access), as well as bibliographic references.

You can find more information in the ZHAW digitalcollection wiki (in German).

Databases

Databases available

The University Library has a wide range of databases focussing on different specialist areas.

Linking to full text – LibKey Nomad and LibKey

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides you with direct access to the licensed content of the ZHAW as well as open access materials. After installing, select ZHAW as your institution. You will then be notified about availability with a blue ZHAW banner. LibKey also facilitates access to our databases: If an article is available, simply click on the LibKey symbol to access the full text. If it is not available, you will be redirected to ZHAW swisscovery. There you can check whether the document you are looking for is possibly available in print in a library.

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