This year, the scientists at TU Darmstadt will be informed by e-mail about current developments on Open Access. Online events are offered, for example, by the open-access.network project and are open to all interested parties.

Consultations on digital publishing are available at the ULB Darmstadt by email or by appointment online via Zoom. We provide a lot of information on our website.

For the summer semester 2020, the Executive Board announced Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp to be TU Darmstadt's Open Access Officer.

TU Darmstadt is participating in the Germany-wide DEAL-contract, which was concluded with the scientific publisher Springer Nature. This agreement will allow you to access Springer Nature’s online journals and to benefit from new expanded possibilities to publish your research results as Open Access.

TU Darmstadt has reported its expenses for Open Access for the year 2019 to the OpenAPC initiative.

The anniversary publication of the ULB Darmstadt “450 Years of Knowledge – Collecting – Communicating. From the Court Library to the University and State Library Darmstadt: 1567-2017” is now online.

Braunschweig University Library , the University and State Library Darmstadt, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and the Fraunhofer Information Center for Planning and Building are jointly developing the scientific information service for the subject areas of civil engineering, architecture and urban planning.

An ORCID iD distinguishes you from other authors. The ORCID iD is a standardised, international and persistent identifier in form of a 16-digit number. It ensures the unique assignment to your publications and research data, but can also be used in communication with publishers or research funders.

The web service Dissemin facilitates the secondary publishing of your papers. As of 23.03.2020 there will be an interface to TUprints , the Open Access repository of TU Darmstadt.

The executive board of TU Darmstadt has adopted publication guidelines , which are binding for university members. The publication guidelines apply to all scientific publications since 01.02.2020.