Two Ways to the Goal
Scientific publications from the TUHH are also to be made freely accessible to the public. To reach this goal you have two options: the Golden Way and the Green Way.
Gold Open Access
The Golden Way represents the initial publication of a scientific contribution in an Open Access publication. At TUHH, these are generally peer-reviewed articles which are made accessible free of charge in open access journals. These Publications are often subject to publication fees, which must be paid by the authors. The library will advise you on questions regarding the selection of magazines and financing. It also operates a publication fund from which the article fees are paid under certain conditions. Only open access journals that are included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) are supported.
Green Open Access
The Green Way stands for publishing publications in repositories such as TUHH Open Research (TORE). TORE is the open access repository of TUHH. Here, scientific results from the TUHH can be published, but also the author’s version of an already published pay-wall article. Most scientific publishers allow time-delayed publication of post or preprints on a repository. The project SHERPA/RoMEO provides detailed information on the individual publishers.
However, especially for newcomers and outsiders, there are always many questions surrounding OA and the numerous fields of development, such as “What is meant by green OA?”, “What are the differences between gold and hybrid journals?” or “Why shouldn’t people publish in closed access?” In order to make Open Access and its advantages more accessible to as many interested parties as possible, the Open Access team has compiled a small glossary. The compilation is based on questions around Open Access terminology, which is a frequent topic in consultation scenarios:
Open Access materials
Posters, flyers, slides, and other materials related to open access and open access publishing are available here and via the Zenodo-Community Open Access (TUHH) for free reuse.
Slides on open access at the TUHH
- Slides „Open Up! Making research visible – paths to open access“ (Collect, Write, Publish 2025): PDF
Open Access Poster
The following posters were created as part of Open Access Week 2025:
We will be happy to advise you on Open Access
You can reach the Open Access team via mail openaccess@tuhh.de.
Please also feel free to take part in our Open Access consultation hours via Zoom (identification code: 190591) if you have questions regarding Open Access (every Friday from 10:00 am to 10:30 am).
Frauke Wienert
Team Open Access
openaccess@tuhh.de
+49 40 30601 2472
Florian Hagen
Team Open Access
openaccess@tuhh.de
+49 40 30601 3003
Beate Rajski
TUHH Open Access Commissioner
openaccess@tuhh.de
+49 40 30601 3004