TU Delft open access deals with publishers
TU Delft Library has made agreements with the following major publishers about open access publishing at no cost or at a discount if the corresponding author is a TU Delft employee.
All agreements are included in the ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry, this index captures transformative agreements worldwide. These deals are established on the basis of the following criteria: costs, content match with TU Delft and considerations relating to national partnerships. We are in constant negotiation with various publishers worldwide to conclude the most benificial licenses for TU Delft scientists. If you have questions about specific titles / publishers that are not in this list, please contact via library@tudelft.nl.
The costs below are NOT reimbursed by the TU Delft Library.
- Colour: some journals charge for publishing a figure in colour in print.
- Pages: some journals have page charges when you publish more pages than the default number of pages
- Copyright Permission: fee you have to pay for the reuse of figures, tables
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
The publication costs (APCs) of most ACM journals and proceedings are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to most ACM journals and ACM-proceedings, for the publications in this list different conditions apply
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Information on how to submit an article to ACM journals
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- Association for Computing Machinery
- Information about the deal between ACM and Delft University of Technology
APS - American Physical Society
The publication costs (APCs) of the APS titles Physical Review C, Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The publication costs of Open Access articles in the APS titles Physical Review C, Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters are paid by the TU Delft Library as part of the SCOAP3 project
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- The publication costs for the other American Physical Society titles are not reimbursed
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Create an account on the APS website
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- Website APS - American Physical Society
Cogitatio Press
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library via a membership
Membership since 2018
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Data and conditions:
- Delft University of Technology Library is a participant in the Institutional Membership Program of Cogitatio Press
- The publication costs (APCs) for TU Delft authors are covered with this membership
- The agreement applies to all Cogitatio Press journals
- The corresponding author of the publication must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology
- The length of articles has a maximum of 6000 words
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- The author must register on the Cogitatio Press website
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
Copernicus publications
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all Copernicus journals
- The corresponding author must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Create an account on the Copernicus website
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
- Select “Delft University of Technology” as affiliation option supplemented with faculty and department
More info:
EDP Sciences
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2024
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all journals of EDP Sciences
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
- EDP Sciences Information for authors
More info:- Information about open access at EDP Sciences
Frontiers Media
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all Frontiers Media journals
- The corresponding author must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Create an account with Frontiers
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- Information about Frontiers Institutional Membership
- Information about the deal between Frontiers en Delft University of Technology
IEEE
The APC costs of the IEEE open access journals are paid by TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2023
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) of the IEEE open access journals are paid by the TU Delft Library
- This deal does not apply to IEEE magazines with a subscription model
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- Delft University of Technology Library is a participant in the Institutional Partners Program
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Select the desired IEEE open access journal
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
- Use the IEEE Open Access Author Guide for TU Delft
More info:
IOP Publishing
The publication costs (APCs) of 44 journals of IOP Publishing are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) of 44 journals of IOP Publishing are paid by Delft University of Technology Library. See also IOP Publishing 2020-2022
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence.
Procedure:- Follow the instructions on the IOP website
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
IWA publishing
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2024
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all IWA Publishing journals with the exception of the journals published in collaboration with Elsevier, that are part of the national deal with Elsevier
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Instruction for authors
- Register with IWA
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
MDPI
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all MDPI journals
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Information for authors on the MDPI website
- Register your article via the MDPI New Submission Form
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- MDPI Institutional Open Access Program
- Information about APCs at MDPI
PeerJ
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal has no end date
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- Articles that are over 45 pages (after typesetting) will incur an additional service costs that are not reimbursed by TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all PeerJ journals
- The corresponding author must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Create a PeerJ account or login to the PeerJ website
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
PLOS
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal has no end date
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all PLOS journals
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Select the desired magazine on the PLOS website and register yourself or use your ORCID registration
- At “Payment selection” choose “Institutional Account Program” and select "Delft University of Technology" in the list of participating organizations
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
Portland Press
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2024
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Data and conditions:
- The full APC costs for articles are paid by Delft University of Technology Library (deal end date 2024-12-31).
- The agreement applies to all journals of Portland Press, publisher of the Biochemical Society
- The corresponding author must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology.
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence.
Procedure:- Submit your work
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- Read and Publish Portland Press information
The Royal Society
The publication costs (APCs) of selected journals are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- Delft University of Technology Library is a participant in the Royal Society Publishing Open Access Membership Program
- The full publication costs (APCs) of selected journals are paid by the Library of Delft University of Technology
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- The Royal Society author guidelines: "How to prepare your article"
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- Website Royal Society
- Royal Society Transformative Agreements
- TU Delft joins Royal Society Publishing Open Access Membership Programme

Royal Society of Chemistry
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
The agreement applies to all hybrid journals. Open Access journals are excluded from this deal. RSC Open Access and Hybrid journal list
The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology - All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence.(preferably)
Procedure:- Information for authors
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info: - The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Scientific.Net – Trans Tech Publications
The publication costs (APCs) are reimbursed for 50% by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2024
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Data and conditions:
- The publication costs (APCs) are reimbursed for 50% by the TU Delft Library
- TU Delft employees pay €625 per article
- The agreement applies to all Trans Tech Publications journals
- The corresponding author must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Procedure for submitting an article in Trans Tech Publications journals
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:- Information about Trans Tech Publications
SciPost
Publish in SciPost free of charge for authors from Delft University of Technology
SciPost Sponsorship since 2018
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Data and conditions:
- Delft University of Technology Library is Supporting Partner of SciPost
- No Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be charged for publishing in SciPost
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with Delft University of Technology
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence
Procedure:- Register with SciPost via https://scipost.org/register
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
SPIE
The publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
Deal until the end of 2022
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Data and conditions:
- The full publication costs (APCs) are paid by the TU Delft Library
- The agreement applies to all SPIE journals.
- The corresponding author must be affiliated to Delft University of Technology.
- All articles are published with the Creative Commons CC BY licence.
Procedure:- Information on "how to submit an article to SPIE journals".
- Always use your Delft University of Technology email address and affiliation
More info:
With the major publishers below, National agreements has been made about open access publishing:

Deal 2022-2025; Publish open access without any costs in more than 60 hybrid journals

Deal 2021-2023; Free of charge publishing, hybrid as well as full open access journals are included in this deal.

Deal 2020-2024, No publishing costs in more than 2200 'hybrid' and full open access journals

Deal 2021-2023; Publish free of charge in a selection of Emerald hybride- and all full open access journals

Deal 2022-2024; Publish without costs open access in over 900 hybrid journals and with a 20% discount in the full open access journals

Deal 2018-2022; Publishing open access in 2,000 hybrid journals at no cost to the author

Deal 2021-2023; Cost free open access publishing in more than 2200 hybrid open access journals

Deal 2022-2024; publish without costs in 34 hybrid and 60 full open access journals

Deal 2021-2023; Publish without costs in over 1.400 hybride open access journals
TU Delft open access book deals with publishers
Sponsoring and Co-Creation of open access books
TU Delft has been a supporter and funder of open access publications since 2004. In addition to the open access publishing of peer reviewed articles, TU Delft would like to emphasize that open access books and book chapters are also of great importance in the free dissemination of science. As a result TU Delft Library has a long tradition of sponsored books and book chapters that have been made accessible as open access versions. In 2022, a new chapter has opened. From that year on, TU Delft OPEN Publishing has been working closely with several publishers to publish the books of authors affiliated with Delft in open access modus. This is done on the basis of mutual interests and based on affordable financial principles
TU Delft has a partnership with the following publishers:
nai010 publishers specializes in developing, publishing and distributing books in the fields of architecture, urbanism, art and design. Resulting from the merger of NAi Publishers and 010 Publishers as of July 2012, nai010 publishers is the largest internationally orientated Dutch publisher in the fields of architecture, art, photography and design.
Boom uitgevers, imprint Eleven
A family business, Boom uitgevers was founded in 1841 and has since grown into a publishing group whose activities include developing multimedia operations that provide information of the highest standard for the nation. Koninklijke Boom uitgevers distinguishes itself by its independence and reliability. Boom uitgevers aims to provide people with reliable and meaningful information that leads to a better understanding, based on a strong commitment to society.
IOS Press is an independent international scientific, technical, medical (STM) publishing house established in 1987 in Amsterdam. We produce around 90 journals and 70 books annually in a broad range of subject categories, primarily specializing in biomedical and life sciences (including neurosciences, medical informatics, cancer research, rehabilitation) and physical sciences (including computer sciences, artificial intelligence, engineering). In addition, we offer specialized services that support scientific advancement.