On this page, you will find information on borrowing conditions, required reading and publications.
Loan period: 21 days
Renewals: Once for 14 days
Number of simultaneous on-site loans: 15
If you need books for longer, please contact your local library staff.
Required reading
Changes to required reading will be requested by email before the start of the semester and procured for the semester. You can also submit your required reading changes using the following form:
Due to the sensitive nature of psychological testing procedures, these may only be borrowed from library staff with the consent of psychology lecturers. For further information on borrowing regulations, please refer to the Test Library page.
If you are interested in publishing in Opus, please send the document to be published as a PDF and Word document at library@macromedia.de.
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 scientific 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 scientific journals under the leadership of the German Rectors‘ Conference.
The agreements enable thousands of research articles from German institutions to be published in open access each year, making them immediately 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 in over 2,500 Elsevier journals, including Cell Press and The Lancet, on an open access basis.
Discounts on publication fees (APCs):
Pricing model
Open Access Publishing
Authors from Germany can publish in over 2,000 Springer Nature subscription journals via Open Access (Open Choice option).
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 between 2024 and 2026.
Non-research articles can continue to be published in open access without an additional PAR fee.
Open Access Publishing
Authors from participating institutions publish in more than 1,300 Wiley subscription journals in Open Access (Wiley ‘Hybrid Open Access’ option).
In addition, more than 600 pure open access journals are available.
Pricing model
A tiered publish-and-read (PAR) fee per publication in hybrid subscription journals has been introduced.
Tier I: Journals with a full-time permanent editorial office or full-time editors-in-chief.
Tier II & III: Differ according to their respective ownership status (journals from professional societies or Wiley’s own).
Tier PAR Fee
I €3,150
II €2,700
III €2,200
If you wish to publish with Elsevier, Springer or Wiley, please contact the library in advance at library@macromedia.de.
If you are interested in open access publication in one of the journals of other publishers, please contact the Vice-President for Research, Artistic Practice and Knowledge Transfer, Prof. Dr. Florian Haumer.