The reading rooms and study rooms will be open on Ascension Day, Thursday 18-5-2023, and Pentecost weekend, 27-5-2023 – 29-5-2023.
Ascension Day | 10am – 8pm |
Pentecost Saturday | 8am – 8pm |
Pentecost Sunday/Monday | 10am – 8pm |

We wish you nice holidays!
The reading rooms and study rooms will be open on Ascension Day, Thursday 18-5-2023, and Pentecost weekend, 27-5-2023 – 29-5-2023.
Ascension Day | 10am – 8pm |
Pentecost Saturday | 8am – 8pm |
Pentecost Sunday/Monday | 10am – 8pm |
We wish you nice holidays!
Over the Easter weekend, Friday, 07-04-2023 to Monday, 10-04-2023, the reading and learning rooms of our library are open.
Friday | 10am-8pm |
Easter Saturday | 8am-8pm |
Easter Sunday/Monday | 10am-8pm |
We wish you happy Easter!
In 2022, TUB has been committed to Open Access in various ways. Some activities and developments of the past year are presented below in this blog post.
Continue readingOn Tuesday, 21.03.2023, the reading rooms of the University Library will be open from 9am – 9pm.
Our ServicePoint will be staffed from 12 pm on this day.
The University Library of TU Hamburg will close this year on Friday, 23. December 2022, at 6 pm for the Christmas holidays and the turn of the year. We will be back for you at our regular opening hours from Monday, 02. January 2023!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The library offers not only a large selection of print and e-media, but also space for studying. A total of 71 individual seats and 8 group rooms (for TU members only) for 4-6 people can be reserved.
You can make a reservation from the comfort of your home up to one week in advance. Simply visit our homepage and click on “Reservations”. And this is how it works:
Don’t forget to bring your library card on the respective day. You will need it to confirm your reservation via the scanner in the entrance area. This is possible at the earliest 30 minutes before the scheduled time. If you do not check-in, your booking will expire 30 minutes after the start of the reservation.
If you no longer need your reservation, you can easily delete it under “My reservations & cancellation”. Here you will also find an overview of all your booked workspace.
The Role of Open Access in the Emergence of the Blue Engineering Seminars, the First Course by Students for Students at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).
Continue readingParticipation in the PLOS-TIB consortium (2023-2024)
The TUHH University Library (tub.) participates in the consortium between PLOS (Public Library of Science) and TIB Hannover. Researchers at TUHH thus have the opportunity to publish an unlimited number of articles in 17 PLOS journals at no additional cost. The offer includes, among others, the following titles:
Participation in the PLOS consortium costs $7,500 per year. With APCs (Article Processing Charges) of $2,100 to $5,300, this already pays off with two to four articles per year. Therefore, we had asked professors and senior engineers of the TUHH in advance for their assessment of a publication in PLOS. This turned out to be positive.
When it comes to publishing journal articles, funding for journal subscriptions is increasingly shifting towards funding for the individual article via APCs, which are borne by the authors* or their institutions. Therefore, when entering into contracts, it is important for tub. to know not only whether you want to read certain journals, but also whether you plan to publish there. In the course of this, professors* as well as senior engineers* were interviewed about the PLOS offer via a six-question questionnaire between 23.08.2022 and 06.09.2022. The aim was to find out which reasons speak for or against a publication by TUHH members in PLOS publications.
With 25 questionnaires fully completed, it was determined that …
In order to learn more about the motives of TUHH researchers, the question “Is publication an option for me?” gave the opportunity to provide detailed insights via free-text answers. Proponents emphasized, among other things, that the interdisciplinary orientation of the journals offered is appreciated and that they are open access. Also in favor were good peer review processes, high impact factors, the simplicity of the publication processes, and the reputation of the journals offered.
In the course of the survey, the participants also had the opportunity for further comments. A more comprehensive commentary deals with the advantages of open access and PLOS publications:
Since an OA for scientific contributions is becoming more and more important nowadays, I would summarize by saying that it would make sense to invest this money in PLOS publications, with the aim of increasing the quantitative visibility of the scientific work of the TUHH. From my own experience I can say that publications that I have published via PLOS so far seem to have been more visible than those published in smaller, more discipline-specific journals and were therefore also cited more frequently – albeit in a more general context.
PLOS and TIB will organize a webinar on the submission process (“Author Workflow”) and on reporting. Two dates with identical content will be offered. Registration is not necessary:
Good to know:
Open Access Team of TUHH openaccess@tuhh.de
Please also feel free to take part in our Open Access consultation hours via Zoom (identification code: 347349) if you have questions regarding Open Access (every Friday from 10:00 am to 10:30 am).
Due to maintenance work on the power grid and on central technical systems of the TU Hamburg, the University Library will be closed all day on Saturday, 22.10.2022.
On Sunday, 23.10.2022, the library will be open again from 10am – 8pm.