As in previous years, the TUHH University Library will continue to provide you with the latest academic literature in 2026.
1. Licensed media packages
Decisive criteria for our license agreements are the subject-specific fit with the TUHH, the price expectations of the providers (incl. increase rates) and the factual usage by members of the TUHH. When licensing digital media, we pay particular attention to the contractually agreed terms of use: Where possible, we purchase campus licenses with unlimited access for authenticated TUHH members. We consistently reject contracts that provide for data protection concessions such as the tracking of user data. In addition, we ensure archiving and access rights after the termination of the respective contracts.
Journals
The following license agreements were continued or newly concluded for this year (see also the overview of our publishers and journals).
Other journal packages
- ACS Core Plus (American Chemical Society)
- AIAA Journals (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
- AIP: The Journal of Chemical Physics (American Institute of Physics)
- ASME Collection (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
- Cambridge University Press Journals (+) (NEW)
- Emerald Journals (+ NEW)
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- IMS Journal Collection (Institute of Mathematical Statistics)
- IOP Journals (Institute of Physics) (+)
- Nature Journals 2025-2028 (+)
- Oxford Journals
- SIAM Journals (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- SPIE Digital Library (The International Society for Optics and Photonics)
- Taylor & Francis – Science & Technology 2024-2026 (+)
(+) = Including Open Access Option (Transformative Agreements)
In addition to these packages, we currently have 38 individual subscriptions to digital magazines.
The costs of open access can be much higher than the previous subscription costs, or essential components of the portfolio may be missing. Therefore, we decided against the open access option of ACS and IEEE again.
Open Access Publishing Agreements without subscription
Under the following agreements, we offer TUHH members discounted conditions for scientific publishing.
- ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery): Free Publishing for Corresponding Authors of the TUHH
- Frontiers Media 2024-2026: 10 % discount on APCs from Corresponding Authors of the TUHH
- JMIR Publications Gold Open Access: Free Publishing for Corresponding Authors of the TUHH (NEW)
- MDPI: 10 % discount on APCs from Corresponding Authors of the TUHH
- PLOS Open-Access-Agreement 2025-2026: Free Publishing for Corresponding Authors of theTUHH
In view of the predominantly critical mood at the TUHH, we refrained from participating in an extended cooperation with MDPI with greater benefits as we already did in the preceding year.
E-Book Packages
Our current e-book portfolio includes the following packages with the latest publications. In order to better align our e-book portfolio with factual demand, we are licensing publications from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for the first time in a long while, starting with the years 2025 and 2026.
Springer Packages:
Other E-Book Packages:
Due to the sharp decline in demand, we have decided against continuing our IET and SIAM packages.
Databases
Our licensed databases are listed in the Database Information System (DBIS).
2. Open Access Publishing Fund
In addition to the transformative agreements, we will continue to support TUHH researchers who publish in pure open access journals through our Publishing Fund in 2026.
3. Funding of infrastructure services and Diamond Open Access
The TUHH also supports projects and initiatives that advocate an approach to scientific communication that is oriented towards the common good and is not profit-oriented. We continue to support the following initiatives and infrastructures or are supporting them for the first time:
Acquisition proposals or feedback?
In addition to these large packages, we were almost always able to fulfill your book requests. Only very few did not fit our acquisition profile or were no longer available on the market. We would also have liked to make some more titles available digitally, but not all publishers offer us the option of a campus license.
We welcome feedback on the offers presented as well as further suggestions at tub-erwerbungsleitung@tuhh.de.
Also, if you have an acquisition proposal, we will be happy to help you as always.