Duration: 2021 - 2026

TUM has extended its participation in the national Publish & Read consortium with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), offering TUM members special conditions for their open access publications. Starting in 2024, the expanded conditions now include publishing options in Gold Open Access Journals.

The following services are available through the University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire AIP journal portfolio [8].
• Publishing in Hybrid Open Access Journals
  As the corresponding author affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in almost all hybrid journals from AIP. Please note that only articles that have been allocated a CC-BY license are covered by the agreement. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, AIP will directly invoice you for those expenses.
• Publishing in Gold Open Access Journals
  As the corresponding author affiliated with TUM, you can also publish in AIP's Gold Open Access Journals [9] – at no cost to you personally. The APCs (Article Processing Charges) for these ten journals will be covered by TUM and handled through the University Library. Important: If you plan to submit to one of these journals, please contact our Open Access Team [10] first.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further information
Author instructions by AIP [11]
 

Duration: 2024 - 2025

TUM has extended its Publish & Read agreement with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for 2024. TUM members benefit from special conditions for their open access publications.

The following services are available through the TUM University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire journal portfolio of ASME [14]. Starting in 2024, we will also offer you access to the society's proceedings.
   
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in both ASME journals and proceedings. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., for color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, ASME will directly invoice you for those expenses.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Duration: 2022 - 2027

TUM participates in a national Publish & Read consortium with Cambridge University Press (CUP), offering TUM members special conditions for their open access publications.

The following services are available through the TUM University Library:

• Reading access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost all current journals from Cambridge University Press [18].
   
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in almost all journals from Cambridge University Press. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing, APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., for color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, CUP will directly invoice you for those expenses.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further information
List of eligible journals [19]
Author instructions by Cambridge University Press [20]

Duration: 2022 - 2026

TUM has entered into a Publish & Read agreement [22] of the Company of Biologists, offering TUM members special conditions for their open access publication.

The following services are available through the University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire journal portfolio of the Company of Biologists [23], including its archive back to 1852.
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers Open Access in almost all journals from Company of Biologists. There are no costs for you personally when publishing Open Access. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and managed through the University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, Company of Biologists will invoice you directly for those expenses.

Indicate your affiliation with TUM
In order 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, standardised university affiliation. Please observe the requirements of the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Corresponding authors will be identified by their email address, so please use your @tum.de mail.

Further information
Author instructions by Company of Biologists [24]

Duration: 2018 - 2025

TUM participates in ECS Plus [27], a consortium of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Therefore, TUM members are entitled to publish their articles in Electrochemical Society [28] journals under the Open Access model, free of charge, and without limitations on the number of articles. This applies to both corresponding authors and co-authors.

And here's how you proceed:

• Use the ECS Online Workflow [29] to submit your article.
• Start by selecting the "Open Access" option,
• then click on "ECS Plus",
• and enter "Technische Universität München (TUM)" in the "Your University" field.
• Finally, select the Creative Commons license "CC BY".

Instructions for the ECS Online Workflow [30]

Duration: 2023 - 2025

TUM participates in a national Publish & Read consortium with the publisher Emerald, offering TUM members special conditions for their open access publications.

The following services are available through the TUM University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire journal portfolio of Emerald [35].
   
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in almost all journals from Emerald. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., for color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, Emerald will directly invoice you for those expenses.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Duration: 2019 - 2025

TUM participates in a national Publish & Read consortium with IOP Publishing, offering TUM members special conditions for their open access publications.

The following services are available through the University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire journal portfolio of IOP Publishing [38].
   
• Open Acces Publishing  
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in almost all journals of IOP Publishing. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., for color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, IOP Publishing will directly invoice you for those expenses.

Indicate your affiliation with TUM
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further information
List of eligible journals [39]
Author instructions by IOP Publishing [40]

Duration: 2024 - 2026

TUM is participating in the Open Access program KOALA Mathematics and Computer Science [41]. In this way, we are contributing to the transition of the following six journals to Diamond Open Access.

• Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations
• SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics
• Logical Methods in Computer Science
• Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
• TheoretiCS
• Epijournal de Géométrie Algébrique

The following benefits for the scientific community are associated with this:

• Reading Access
  There is worldwide free access to the six journals of KOALA Mathematics and Computer Science [42].
   
• Open Access Publishing
  You can publish your articles in the Diamond Open Access journals of Mathematics and Computer Science without incurring any publication costs for you as the author. These costs are collectively covered by the participating institutions [43].

Duration: 2024 - 2028

The Nature Publishing Group has been part of Springer Nature for several years. Under a DEAL agreement with the publishing group [45], TUM members already enjoy special publishing conditions for Gold Open Access journals, including the so-called "Nature branded journals". However, hybrid journals from the Nature portfolio were covered by the DEAL agreement. To close this gap, we have concluded an additional Publish & Read contract, providing TUM members the opportunity to publish in all Nature branded journals.

The following services are available through the TUM University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to the entire portfolio of Nature branded journals [46].
   
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in all Nature branded journals. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing if your article has been accepted for publication from 1 January 2024. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., for color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, Springer Nature will directly invoice you for those expenses.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further Information
Author instructions by Nature [47]
List of eligible journals [48] (Excel file)
Publishing opportunites for TUM members in the Springer journal portfolio [45]

Laufzeit: 2024 – 2026

TUM has entered into a Publish & Read agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP), offering the following TUM members special conditions for their open access publication.

The following services are available through the University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire journal portfolio of Oxford University Press [50].
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers Open Access in almost all journals from Oxford University Press. There are no costs for you personally when publishing Open Access. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and managed through the University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, Oxford University Press will invoice you directly for those expenses.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further Information
Author instructions by Oxford University Press [51]

Duration: 2021 - 2025

TUM is participating in the national Publish & Read consortium with the publisher Sage, offering TUM members special conditions for their Open Access publications. Starting in 2024, the expanded conditions now include publishing options in Gold Open Access Journals.

The following services are available through the University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have access rights to almost the entire journal portfolio of Sage [54].
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers Open Access in almost all Sage hybrid journals [55] and its approx. 140 Gold Open Access journals [56]. There are no costs for you personally when publishing Open Access. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and managed through the University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, Sage will invoice you directly for those expenses.
  As a corresponding author affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers Open Access in Sage's Hybrid Journals [57]. There are no personal costs involved for you as the author – unless you opt for additional services with the publisher, for which Sage will directly invoice you.

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further information
Author instructions by Sage [58]

Duration: 2020 - 2028

TUM is participating in the DEAL agreement with the Springer Nature [62] publishing group, negotiated on behalf of the Alliance of Science Organizations and the German Rectors' Conference. The agreement also includes brands such as Adis, BioMed Central, or Palgrave Macmillan as well as the Gold Open Access journals from Nature. Excluded are the hybrid journals from the Nature Portfolio, for which TUM has made a separate agreement [63].

The following services are available through the TUM University Library:

• Reading Access
  At TUM, you have online access to almost the entire journal portfolio of the Springer Nature Group [64], including titles from imprints such as Adis, BioMed Central, or Palgrave Macmillan. This includes reading rights for current issues and archival access to back volumes.
   
• Open Access Publishing
  As a "Corresponding Author" affiliated with TUM, you have the opportunity to publish your papers as Open Access in almost all journals of the Springer Nature Group. There are no costs for you personally for Open Access publishing. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are covered by TUM and handled through the TUM University Library. If you opt for additional services (e.g., for color illustrations or extra length) with the publisher, Springer Nature will directly invoice you for those expenses.

Exempt from the Agreement

• Hybrid Journals from the Nature portfolio are not included in the DEAL contract with the Springer Nature Group. For this, TUM has reached a separate agreement, allowing us to provide you with reading access and Open Access publication options for these titles as well. More information [63]
• Also excluded are magazines (e.g., Scientific American, Spektrum der Wissenschaft) and technical journals (e.g., ATZ, MTZ).

Mandatory Affiliation Statement
For cost coverage and the precise attribution of your publication, it is crucial that you indicate TUM as your primary affiliation and utilize the binding, standardized affiliation designation. Please adhere to the specifications outlined in the TUM Publication Guidelines [6] for all your publication projects. Always use your TUM email address (@tum.de or @mytum.de) for the submission process to ensure that the publisher correctly affiliates you with TUM.

Further Information
Author instructions by Springer Nature [65]
List of eligible journals [66] (Excel file)
Publishing opportunities for TUM members in the Nature portfolio [63]