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</div> <i class="accordeon-icon material-icons text-[28px] select-none group-hover:text-primary">close</i> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item__content overflow-hidden transition-all duration-100 ease-in-out"> <div class="py-8 px-4"> <section class="l-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="layout-wrapper lg:w-2/3 lg:mx-auto"> <div class="wysiwyg mb-16" data-controller="commons" data-commons-target="wysiwygElement"> <p>The reason could be that the title was published by one of our publisher partners.</p> <p>Due to security concerns most of our partners have requested us to remove the complete PDF for download from the platform, since our eBooks are all DRM free.</p> <p>Those titles can be read and downloaded chapterwise only.</p> <p>Partners for which full texts are available are:</p> <ul> <li>Amsterdam University Press</li> <li>Central European University Press</li> <li>DETAIL</li> <li>Gütersloher Verlagshaus</li> <li>Iberoamericana Vervuert</li> <li>Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt</li> <li>RWS-Verlag</li> <li>transcript Verlag</li> <li>Vincentz Network</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordeon-item js-accordeon-item" data-accordion-target="accordionElement"> <div class="relative group accordeon-title border-b border-grey-light cursor-pointer" data-action="click->accordion#toggle"> <div class="absolute -inset-2 bg-white shadow-all hidden group-hover:block"></div> <div class="relative py-10 px-4 flex justify-between items-center font-sans uppercase"> <div class="pr-6 break-words group-hover:text-primary"> Will I still be able to access content via discovery services? 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