Open Access Publishing Fund

Provided that the DFG criteria are met, the TUHH Library will cover the costs of article publications in so-called gold open access journals. You can apply for funding by filling out the application form here: funding programme “Open Access Publishing”. Please submit your application before submitting the article. We will notify you about the possible coverage of costs.
No application is required for gold publications from publishers Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley.

Funds are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please also take publication costs into account in your respective third-party funding project application! Publication costs should also be included in industrial projects.

Criteria for funding

Status 01.01.2026

Target group of the central funding

Funding from the Publication Fund is available to academic staff at the TUHH (all status groups). The following conditions apply:

• As the corresponding author, you must be responsible for the publication vis-à-vis the publisher.
• The publication contains the results of projects currently being worked on at the TUHH.
• It is essential to state your TUHH affiliation in accordance with the TUHH affiliation guidelines in the first place and to use your TUHH email address as your contact address.
• To ensure better allocation, please also submit your article using your TUHH email address.

When is my article eligible for funding?

• Your article will be published in a journal that makes all articles available free of charge on the Internet immediately upon publication (“gold open access”). The journal applies a strict quality assurance procedure recognized in your field (e.g., peer review).
  Information about the journals: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• The funded publications receive a CC license upon publication, preferably CC-BY 4.0 Attribution in the spirit of open science.
  • Why is CC-BY the best choice for Open Access Publishing?
• As a member of the TUHH, you are the corresponding author and responsible for paying the publication fees. It is mandatory to state your TUHH affiliation in accordance with the TUHH affiliation guidelines in the first place: “Hamburg University of Technology, TUHH institute address, and TUHH email address.”
  • This also applies to visiting scholars, collaborations, and research networks, such as the fmthh – Medical Technology Research Center Hamburg or the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML).
• Only standard publication fees (APCs) will be covered. We do not finance additional costs for illustrations, excess length, etc. The TUHH or the library publishes the expenses associated with the publication as part of the supraregional data collection in OpenAPC.
• Since some publishers charge disproportionately high publication fees, we reserve the right to request additional information from you regarding the economic use of funds if the APC exceeds €3,600.

Which articles are not eligible for funding?

Die Open-Access-Freischaltung von Aufsätzen in subskriptionspflichtigen Zeitschriften nach dem Modell des „Open Choice“ (hybride Zeitschriften) ist nicht förderfähig.

How can I apply for funding by the Open-Access Publishing Fund?

Please make the application before entering into a contract with the journal:

After successful review by the TUHH library you receive a commitment for the costs, which have to be paid in the case of acceptance of your article by the journal. We also check whether the selected journal fits the quality criteria. In this case, the invoice will be paid by the library. The invoices must always be issued to the TUHH and contain the VAT number of the TUHH.

Advice needed?

Open Access Repository of TUHH

We would like that the supported articles would also be uploaded to the TUHH Open Research (TORE) – in case it is legally allowed in the contract with the particular publisher.

Funded Articles

In the following you will find all publications funded by the publication fund of the TU Hamburg: List of articles (starting April 1, 2013)List of payments

APC Payments from TUHH are published as Open Data within the framework of the OpenAPC initiative: List of payments