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Please note: Contributions to the journal Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung (Contributions to Higher Education Research) are not subject to these general website terms of use, but to the special licence and terms of use for scientific contributions (see section ‘Guidelines for authors’).
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We are not liable for any damage resulting from the use of this website. This disclaimer does not apply insofar as the provisions of Section 839 of the German Civil Code (liability for breach of official duty) are relevant. No liability is accepted for any damage caused by malware when accessing or downloading data or by the installation or use of software.
Links
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Legal validity
The information on the terms of use, the disclaimer and the links is to be regarded as part of the internet offer from which this page was referenced. If parts or individual formulations of this text do not, no longer or do not completely correspond to the applicable legal situation, the remaining parts remain unaffected in their content and validity.
Open Access Declaration for Contributions to Higher Education Research
Contributions to Higher Education Research (BzH) are published in open access. All content is available online free of charge and can be read, downloaded, shared and processed by users in accordance with the licence terms of Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) . This licence permits the reading, downloading, copying and processing of content exclusively for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original authors and the source are named.
The authors retain all other rights to their works. They may use their contributions elsewhere or republish them, provided that the initial publication by the IHF is duly acknowledged.
Archiving and technical processing
To ensure long-term availability, the IHF is entitled to technically edit contributions (e.g. through format migration) without changing the content. The transfer of simple rights of use to libraries, archives, open access repositories or long-term archiving systems (e.g. German National Library) is permitted.