The Technical University of Munich participates in the nationwide DEAL contract with the international scientific publisher Springer Nature. The agreement offers online access to a large part of the publisher's journals, and new, extended options for publishing research results open access.
Agreement with Springer Nature
The new contract with Springer Nature is largely comparable to the agreement reached with Wiley last year. For TUM, the contract includes the following key points:
- Reading access: TUM members have permanent access to about 1,900 Springer journals (including Springer Medical, Palgrave, Adis and Macmillan Academic). Not included in the DEAL contract are Nature journals, magazines (e.g. Scientific American, Spektrum der Wissenschaft) and technical journals (e.g. ATZ, MTZ). However, the University Library offers you access to Nature journals via additional licences.
- Hybrid Open Access: Since 1 January 2020, you as an author at TUM are entitled to publish your scientific articles in Springer subscription journals open access. There are no personal costs for you – unless you agree on certain additional services, for which the publisher will invoice you directly. There are also restrictions for specialist medical journals.
- Gold Open Access: You can also publish in pure open access journals from Springer Nature at no personal costs. From 1 August 2020, invoices for publication costs in these approx. 600 journals (including BioMed Central journals, Scientific Reports and Nature Communications) are handled centrally by the TUM University Library.
To ensure that all publications can be clearly assigned to the Technical University of Munich, it is important that all TUM authors use the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please observe the TUM Publication Guidelines for all your publication projects.
Further information:
Project DEAL: Key elements, agreement text, complete list of journals
Author instructions on the Springer Nature website
Licenses for Nature journals at TUM
Publication Services of the University Library
