DEAL-Konsortium at TUHH

Nationwide licensing of content from major academic publishers

DEAL is an initiative of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany. Under the leadership of the German Rectors’ Conference (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz – HRK), DEAL negotiates nationwide transformative  “Publish and Read” agreements with the largest commercial publishers of scholarly journals (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley) on behalf of German research institutions (including universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes, state and regional libraries).

Negotiations are currently underway with all three publishers for new contracts to run from January 2024.

The aims of the DEAL-Konsortium are

• a fair financial burden to get a wide-scale, lasting digital access to scholarly literature of the participiating publishers for academics in Germany
• the transformation to open access, from subscription-based to publication-based financing of publishing scholarly information in Germany via Open Access.

What does DEAL mean specifically for the TUHH?

For each of the publishers included in DEAL until now, the consortium currently has a different impact on the TU Hamburg.

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DEAL Article of the TUHH

In the framework of the OpenAPC initiative, DEAL articles and related costs are published as Open Data:

The complete list, filterable by publisher, year and hybrid status, can be found here.