| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Agreement ID | ieee2026tib |
| Agreement labeling | IEEE Open Access Deposit Account Agreement |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | No |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2027 |
| Consortia / Institution | TIB Consortium |
| Country | Germany |
| COST | |
| How do the costs of the agreement relate to the previous agreement with the publisher? | Cost decrease |
| Comments on cost development | Previous to this consortial agreement, participating institutions payed single APCs for Gold OA journals or had individual solutions/agreements with publisher. |
| Describe how the cost model has changed from the previous agreement (e.g., move from subscription to R&P / from capped to uncapped / from single APC payments to flat fee, etc.) | n/a |
| PUBLISHING-RELATED TERMS | |
| Publication output
What is the approximate number of annual corresponding author publications from your institution/consortium with the publisher (in closed, hybrid and fully OA journals)? |
75 |
| Is the agreement’s provision for OA publishing capped (e.g., limited to a specific number of articles per year) or uncapped? | Capped |
| What is the publication cap per year? | Participating institutions can freely choose how many APCs (article tokens) they wish to purchase / pre-pay (with possibility to top-up once a year) |
| Coverage
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (i.e., journals in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
No |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes, the agreement only covers APC-based fully OA titles (publishing-only agreement) |
| Are journals operating under other business models (S2O, Diamond OA, etc.) covered by the agreement? | No |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original research articles, Letters, Review articles and reports on written approval by participating institution |
| Risk sharing
What risk-sharing mechanisms exist in cases of exceeding or not reaching the anticipated number of OA publications under the agreement? |
No risk-sharing mechanism |
| Comments on publishing-related terms | Unused APCs in the deposit account expire after the contract term (no refunding) |
| OA WORKFLOW | |
| Author workflow and verification
The date for articles’ eligibility is based on: |
Acceptance date |
| Describe the mechanisms used by the publisher for matching authors with an eligible institution: | Authors need to specify affiliation in submission workflow |
| How do consortia or institutions verify author eligibility and approve OA funding? | Via publisher’s dashboard or third-party platform (pre-publication) |
| Does the agreement include mechanisms to correct mistakenly approved, missed, or not approved publications (e.g., retrospective OA conversion of closed articles or refunding paid APCs)? | Yes |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | Yes |
| Comments on publisher reporting | Work-in-progress (too early to assess) |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | Yes |
| Comments on additional publication fees | Color and over-length page charges are not covered by the agreement |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Too early to assess |
| Comments on workflows | If an eligible article is not detected for inclusion under the agreement in the first instance, it can be added to the agreement within 90 days of the acceptance date |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY variations allowed |
| Has the author workflow been customized to direct authors to a certain license (e.g., by making the option for CC BY the preselected default)? | No |
| If the agreement covers licenses more restrictive than CC BY, do the License to Publish agreements (LtPs) offered to authors differ from the publisher’s standard LtP? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | No |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | |
| Please share your overall assessment of this agreement with the community. Were negotiation goals (such as open access, cost development, etc.) reached? Which elements would have to be adjusted in future agreements? | This is the first agreement of its type (pilot) for TIB Consortium and we will closely monitor the implementation of this agreement over the two-year term |
Request contact to the licensee: contact@esac-initiative.org
