*Is this the only one or are there others defined by other sign conventions?* As has already been mentioned - there are essentially two but the Koszul one is amongst other things, the only one which makes the tensor product of complexes a complex. Since I have been interested in this topic of late, I would point you towards the following internal (within MathOverflow) references: - For a recent discussion see: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/93464/tensor-product-of-linear-mappings-versus-chain-complexes - In particular Simon Letner and Qiaochu Yauns' answers provide a nice conceptual backdrop. - I also found Theo Johnson-Freyd's answer here quite illuminating: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/53315/references-for-sign-conventions-in-homological-algebra - Theo Johnson-Freyd's answer in this thread is also instructive: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/95795/sign-convention-for-derivations-in-cdgas