News

Wednesday, 21. January 2026

Digital Newspaper Collection

Read taz online

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The University Library’s digital newspaper collection has expanded: TUM members can now access taz online. Access includes current articles from the daily newspaper as well as archive editions dating back to 2011.

Your Online Access
TUM members can read the online editions of taz via eAccess in the web browser of their choice. Simply log in with your TUM ID and start reading.

The Digital Newspaper Collection
The online subscription to taz is part of the University Library’s extensive digital collection of national and international press. You can read journals and , newspapers, or conduct research in media platforms, such as:

New York Times
Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ Library Net)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ-BiblioNet)
RiffReporter: Online magazine with analyses, background reports, and stories on the environment, science, society, technology, and world affairs
Nexis Uni: Database with articles from thousands of journals, newspapers, and magazines around the world, e.g., Spiegel, Harvard Law Review, and cases/jurisdictions
heise+: Contributions from the heise editorial team and content from the magazines c’t, iX, MIT Technology Review, Mac & i, Make, and c’t Fotografie
PressReader: Media platform with 7,000 newspapers and magazines from 120 countries, incl. The Guardian, El País, Die Welt, or Vogue

As a TUM member, you can access e-newspapers and databases reliably via eAccess. Log in with your TUM ID. One exception is FAZ-BiblioNet: Due to licensing restrictions, access is only possible within the TUM LAN using a proxy configuration.

Further Information
Our complete e-journal collection
Our database offerings

Monday, 19. January 2026

Overview of Research Devices

New TUMFIS Data Area: Equipment

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The research information system TUMFIS now includes a new feature called “Equipment”. This data area allows the systematic recording of research devices and other infrastructures, such as microscopes, particle accelerators, or genomics platforms, along with details on availability and access.

Please find details on the new feature in the TUMFIS Wiki.

Training: Best Practices for TUMFIS
Join the webinar TUMFIS Essentials – Visibility for Research Performance at TUM to get started or to refresh your knowledge of working with TUMFIS.

Further Information
TUMFIS Portal
About TUMFIS
Support: TUMFIS Wiki

Thursday, 15. January 2026

Campaign Week on Research Data Management

Love Data Week 2026

"Where's the Data?" – From 9 to 13 February 2026, the international Campaign week Love Data Week will take place. Its goal is to raise awareness for responsible research data management. Research institutions worldwide present their events to foster data literacy.

Data Stewards and Product Managers from our departments Research Data Services and Library Technology are participating again this year and will host four webinars for everyone interested:

Mysterious Metadata - From Relevance to Standardization
With two interactive puzzles, we demonstrate and discuss the necessity of metadata
and explore approaches to formalization.
Tuesday, 10.02.2026, 13:00 – 14:00

Details & Zoom link

Loving Metadata: TUM DataTagger Insights
Discover how collaborative research data management can be made simple and efficient.
Wednesday, 11.02.2026, 14:00 – 14:45

Details & Zoom link

Publishing Data for Long-Term Access and Citation
Data publication is central to the Open Science movement. We will discuss its benefits
and how to successfully publish research data.
Thursday, 12.02.2026, 11:00 – 11:30

Details & Zoom link

It’s a Match: Metadata, Schemas, and (AI) Tools
Get to know practical tools that make it easier for you to choose and implement metadata schemas.
Thursday, 12.02.2026, 14:00 – 15:00

Details & Zoom link

For many events, no prior registration is required. This also applies to our four webinars: join the respective Zoom meeting at the scheduled time and gain valuable insights on data documentation and data publication.

Further Information
Love Data Week 2026 – Program of German Institutions
Research Data Services of the University Library
TUM Research Data Hub

Monday, 29. December 2025

Open Access

Publish & Read Agreements Extended for 2026

Researchers at TUM can continue to benefit from numerous open access agreements with publishers in the coming year. The Publish & Read contracts with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, IEEE, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Oxford University Press (OUP) have been extended through 2026. Funding is provided jointly by the TUM Executive Board, the University Library, as well as TUM’s research institutes and schools.

Publish & Read Agreements with More Than 25 Publishers

In addition to these cooperatively funded agreements, the University Library has concluded further Publish & Read contracts for 2026. These include, among others, Taylor & Francis, Sage, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Institute of Physics (IOP), and Cambridge University Press. In total, more than 25 agreements are in place that allow TUM researchers to publish their articles Open Access without having to pay publication fees themselves.

Open Access Publication Fund

For articles not covered by Publish & Read agreements, TUM researchers may apply for funding through the TUM Open Access Publication Fund. Grants are available for publications in purely Open Access journals that meet the applicable funding conditions.

Further information
Overview of all Publish & Read agreements
Funding conditions of the Open Access Publication Fund

Wednesday, 17. December 2025

Server Maintenance

Restrictions to Interlibrary Loan, dokumenTUM, DigiSem on 5 January

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On Monday, 5 January 2026, maintenance work will be carried out on the Central Interlibrary Loan Server in the morning. For this reason, the Bavarian interlibrary loan service, as well as our internal document delivery services dokumenTUM and DigiSem are expected to be available only from midday.

During this time, no orders can be placed. The pickup and return of interlibrary loans will not be affected.

Thank you for your understanding.