Transformative Agreements of the University Library

The scientific publishing system is undergoing a transition: a transformation to open access. This includes moving away from the traditional subscription model, in which libraries pay for access to scientific publications. For this reason, libraries conclude so-called transformation agreements with publishers. A transformative agreement consists of two components: All authors belonging to a participating institution are given the opportunity to publish their articles immediately open access at no additional cost to themselves. Participating institutions and their users receive read access to a publisher's content, even if it is (still) behind a paywall.

You have written a scientific article primarily within the scope of your research activities at TUK (employment contract) and are corresponding author at the same time? Then you can use the journal titles of a total of five transformative agreements for your open access publication: DEAL Wiley and Springer, Nature and Nature research journals, IOP Publishing and AIP Publishing.

The open access team uses dashboards to check all articles that TUK authors have submitted to publishers and formally confirms that the costs are covered and the open access option applies. The library covers the costs for all agreements at the present time. We also provide detailed information for you on our homepage.

Please choose the option to publish under a CC-BY license. Non-commercial licenses are often selected by scientists in order to exclude commercial reuse. The boundary between commercial and non-commercial is often very blurred. For this reason, the NC licenses usually do not fulfill the desired purpose.

Online Coffee Lecture: How to publish open access with Springer and Wiley (Video, 13:18 min)

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