Publish-and-Read Agreements of the University Library 2026
Through publish-and-read agreements with various publishers, the University Library will continue to support open access publishing for corresponding authors of the HSZG in 2026.
This also guarantees reading access for the respective journal portfolio.
The DEAL agreements with the publishers Elsevier, SpringerNature and Wiley enable university members to publish articles in open access in the participating journals. Reading access to the full texts is guaranteed for almost the entire journal portfolio.
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Publishing in hybrid journals is made possible by the Publish & Read component of the agreement. For publications in the respective Fully Gold Open Access journals, a 20% discount from the list price is granted on the publication fees (APCs). If the cost limit is exceeded, the publication fees for articles in hybrid as well as in gold (pure OA) journals can be passed on to the authors. Please clarify the details of cost coverage with us in advance!
Information from the DEAL consortium for publishers can be found here: https://deal-konsortium.de/publizierende
Members of the HSZG can publish open access in the journals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) listed here. Furthermore, research in ACM publications and full-text access to e-journals, magazines, proceedings, conferences, special interest groups and some e-books is guaranteed.
Full-text access includes journals from the fields of psychology and psychiatry in German or English. The Publish & Read agreement covers publishing by members of the HSZG in hybrid journals and grants a 25% discount on the list price for Gold Open Access journals. Please clarify the details of cost coverage with us in advance!
The Transformative Agreement enables open access publishing for HSZG members in the journal "nature" and 41 original Nature Research journals. In addition to "nature", reading access includes a further 67 nature research journals.
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The HSB participates in the open access funding of the SocioHub journal bundle 2026-2028. Publishing in diamond open access is made possible in four journals in the social sciences. There are no costs for the authors or their institutions.
Journals:
1. GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft
2. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung
3. Open Gender Journal
4. Forum Qualitative Social Research