On this page you will find information on lending conditions, compulsory literature and publications.
Loan period: 21 days
Renewals: 1 time for 14 days
Number of simultaneous on-site loans: 15
If you need books for longer, please contact your local library staff.
Compulsory literature
Changes to compulsory literature will be requested by e-mail before the start of the semester and procured for the semester. You can also use the following form to submit your changes to compulsory literature:
If you are interested in publishing in Opus, please send the document to be published as a PDF and Word document to
The library will then assign a DOI and send you a notification as soon as the document is available online.
DEAL is an initiative of the Alliance of German Science Organisations. On behalf of all German academic institutions (including universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutions, state and regional libraries), DEAL negotiates nationwide transformative ‘Publish and Read’ agreements with the largest commercial publishers of academic journals under the auspices of the German Rectors’ Conference.
The agreements enable thousands of research articles from German institutions to be published in open access every year, making them directly accessible and reusable worldwide free of charge. At the same time, they offer the hundreds of institutions in the DEAL consortium extensive access rights to scientific journals, thereby improving the information infrastructure for research and teaching in Germany.
Open Access Publishing
Authors from participating institutions can publish Open Access in over 2,500 Elsevier journals, including Cell Press and The Lancet.
Discounts on publication charges (APCs):
Pricing model
Open Access Publishing
Authors from Germany can publish Open Access (‘Open Choice’ option) in over 2,000 Springer Nature subscription journals.
In addition, more than 400 pure Open Access journals are available.
Pricing model
A Publish and Read (PAR) fee of EUR 2,600 per publication in hybrid subscription journals has been agreed.
20% discount on publication fees in open access journals from SpringerOpen and BioMed Central (over 500 titles).
1% increase in the PAR fee in 2027 and 2028 if the inflation rate exceeds 3% annually in 2024-2026
Non-research articles can continue to be published Open Access without an additional PAR fee.
Open Access Publishing
Authors from participating institutions publish Open Access in more than 1,300 Wiley subscription journals (Wiley ‘Hybrid Open Access’ option).
In addition, more than 600 pure Open Access journals are available.
Pricing model
A graduated publish-and-read (PAR) fee per publication in hybrid subscription journals has been introduced.
Tier I: Journals with full-time permanent Editorial Office or full-time Editors-in-Chief.
Tier II & III: Distinguished by their respective ownership status (journals of scientific societies or Wiley-owned)
Tier PAR Fee
I € 3,150
II € 2,700
III € 2,200
If you would like to publish a paper with Elsevier, Springer or Wiley, please contact the library in advance at
If you are interested in an open access publication in one of the journals of other publishers, please contact the Vice President for Research, Art Practice and Knowledge Transfer, Prof. Dr Florian Haumer.