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Advocates for Open Access!

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“Vital Partnerships between libraries and publishers in an Open Access landscape: new initiatives, new business models and a glimpse into the future.

After the success of the first two De Gruyter 2023 quarterly webinars, we are proud to announce that Webinar 3 will take place on 28th September, beginning at 2 pm UK time. By popular demand, it will follow on from Webinar 1, to explore further aspects of Open Access. Webinar 3 will focus on the recent American OSTP “Nelson memo”; emerging OA business models, focusing especially on Subscribe-to-Open and why it has become one of the most popular Open Access models; consider where Open Access now stands on the global stage, the long-term financial sustainability of OA models; and how best to reduce inequities in scholarly publishing, particularly for authors in resource-limited contexts. Join us to discuss these and other issues arising in adapting to the changing publishing landscape of Open Access. This is the third in the De Gruyter webinar series 2023: Challenging the Status Quo: Taking Libraries into the Future….”

Open access strategy: De Gruyter expands Subscribe to Open program to accelerate OA transformation | De Gruyter

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“Academic publisher De Gruyter is implementing the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model at scale to transform its journal portfolio to Open Access over the next 5 years. De Gruyter will gradually transfer about 85% of its currently 320 subscription journals to free online access via Subscribe to Open in close collaboration with journal editors and societies. De Gruyter is the first major academic publisher to use Subscribe to Open as its central open access transformation model.

Currently, De Gruyter offers 16 journals as open access via Subscribe to Open. Another five will follow in 2024, and the publisher plans to transfer around 40 journals to open access by 2025. By 2028 around 270 De Gruyter journals are planned to be available as open access titles via Subscribe to Open. In the pilot phase, De Gruyter has had a positive experience with Subscribe to Open as a sustainable transformation model, especially for humanities journals. The participation of subscribing institutions has been high, and responses have been positive.

Compared to other models, Subscribe to Open offers advantages for all stakeholders in the publication system. Authors can publish their articles in established journals on an open access basis at no additional cost. Libraries retain guaranteed access to journals through their subscription, while enabling the open access transformation of those journals without additional administrative effort or cost. Booksellers continue to organize journal purchases for their customers in the usual way.

In addition, unlike the APC model, which is widely established in the sciences, Subscribe to Open is suited to transforming all journal types in all disciplines, including in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). For De Gruyter’s journal portfolio, which is strongly focused on the humanities, Subscribe to Open is therefore a logical choice to function as the main way to open journals….”

“Supporting mission-driven publishing amid unprecedented challenges” | Research Information

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“I held senior editorial positions at Penn State University Press and Cornell University Press. At Cornell, I collaborated with library colleagues on one of the first fully OA scholarly book series, Signale. In 2016 I returned to my alma mater, where I started a digital-first, open-access publishing program based in the library.

All of this has led me to engage ever more deeply with the problem of how to build a sustainable model for OA monograph publishing, which included serving as the lead for TOME (Toward an Open Access Monograph Ecosystem), a five-year pilot project of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AU Presses)….

eBound is a not-for-profit foundation launched by De Gruyter Inc. in 2022 to tangibly support mission-driven scholarly publishing at a time of unprecedented challenges. Funded in part by revenues generated from our University Press Library program, eBound offers grants to small and independent publishers to support the open dissemination and global usage of monographs and other content. Examples include making a book or series of books open access or digitising a corpus of print content and then releasing it open access….”

ResearchGate and De Gruyter announce content partnership

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“ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and De Gruyter, an independent academic publisher disseminating excellent scholarship since 1749, have today announced a content syndication partnership that will see content from 437 of De Gruyter’s journals added to ResearchGate.”

De Gruyter launches not-for-profit foundation: De Gruyter eBound | De Gruyter

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De Gruyter, independent scholarly publisher and founder of the University Press Library distribution model, is launching De Gruyter eBound, a not-for-profit foundation, in the United States. The initiative’s goal is to support the publishing, sustainability, and accessibility of mission-driven scholarly monographs for not-for-profit and Open Access publishers.

Among other planned activities, De Gruyter eBound will offer grants for new publications as well as fund original studies that help key actors in the industry to develop new solutions for and insights on the future of the mission-driven scholarly monograph.

De Gruyter’s eBound Advisory Board consists of leading figures in the academic library and scholarly publishing community: Curtis Brundy (Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Collection, Iowa State University), Jane Bunker (Director, Cornell University Press), Steve Fallon (Vice President, Americas and Strategic Partnerships, De Gruyter), Mary Francis (Director, University of Pennsylvania Press), Alan Harvey (Director, Stanford University Press), Bill Maltarich (Head, Collection Department, New York University), Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, Central European University Press and Founder, Knowledge Unlatched), Emily Poznanski (Director, Central European University Press), Nicola Ramsey (CEO, Edinburgh University Press), and Brigitta van Rheinberg (Associate Director and Director of Global Development, Princeton University Press).

 

De Gruyter launches not-for-profit foundation: De Gruyter eBound | STM Publishing News

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“De Gruyter, independent scholarly publisher and founder of the University Press Library distribution model, is launching De Gruyter eBound, a not-for-profit foundation, in the United States. The initiative’s goal is to support the publishing, sustainability, and accessibility of mission-driven scholarly monographs for not-for-profit and Open Access publishers.

Among other planned activities, De Gruyter eBound will offer grants for new publications as well as fund original studies that help key actors in the industry to develop new solutions for and insights on the future of the mission-driven scholarly monograph….”

The journal Case Reports in Perinatal Medicine starts with Open Access

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“Ten years ago the Editors and Publisher of the Journal of Perinatal Medicine, De Gruyter, were inspired to start a new journal entitled Case Reports in Perinatal Medicine (CRPM) with the aim to collect cases with uncommon diagnosis, and to describe new diseases, innovative therapeutic methods and unusual side effects in therapy. The journal publishes case reports and results of small group studies. These reports generate research questions and induce prospective studies. For this reason, these case reports and CRPM have a high educational value in the world of evidence-based medicine.

After several years of online only publication, the publisher De Gruyter and the journal’s management have decided to switch from subscription to open access publication starting in 2022. This is a significant change in the journal’s profile and an important milestone in the development of CRPM.

The journal’s scientific aims will not change as a result of the decision to change to open access. CRPM will continue to publish competent and timely case reports covering clinical, methodological and scientific aspects of perinatology. All manuscripts will continue to be critically reviewed by at least two experts in the field….”

De Gruyter and CAUL announce new Read & Publish agreement for 2022

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The international independent publisher De Gruyter and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) are  delighted to announce their first Read & Publish agreement, covering subscription access and Open Access publishing during the 2022 calendar year.

Initiative seeks to create ebook sales model that works for university presses and libraries

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“Sixteen major university presses have signed with a Berlin-based scholarly publishing house, De Gruyter, as part of a new initiative to broker ebook sales between presses and university libraries.

The idea behind the University Press Library initiative is for the institutions to sell digital collections of their entire front lists of new titles to university libraries. Under this plan, a library could purchase Stanford University Press’s entire 2021 collection in digital format, for example.

Steve Fallon, De Gruyter’s vice president for the Americas and strategic partnerships, said the goal of the initiative is to generate a sustainable revenue stream for presses that can count on a library buying an electronic version of every single new title — including academically important but lesser-used scholarly monographs, not just books in higher demand….”

Initiative seeks to create ebook sales model that works for university presses and libraries

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“Sixteen major university presses have signed with a Berlin-based scholarly publishing house, De Gruyter, as part of a new initiative to broker ebook sales between presses and university libraries.

The idea behind the University Press Library initiative is for the institutions to sell digital collections of their entire front lists of new titles to university libraries. Under this plan, a library could purchase Stanford University Press’s entire 2021 collection in digital format, for example.

Steve Fallon, De Gruyter’s vice president for the Americas and strategic partnerships, said the goal of the initiative is to generate a sustainable revenue stream for presses that can count on a library buying an electronic version of every single new title — including academically important but lesser-used scholarly monographs, not just books in higher demand….”

Knowledge Unlatched Strikes Again and Again | Jeff Pooley

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“With a hat tip to the indispensable Richard Poynder, here is a quick follow up to yesterday’s post on Knowledge Unlatched’s latest move to disguise its for-profit status. I focused on KU’s Open Research Community (ORC), launched last year as an implied nonprofit. In yesterday’s post, I focused on ORC’s “Community Manager” Pablo Markin and KU head Sven Fund.

The plot is quite a bit thicker, though I won’t do the topic—KU and Sven Fund’s persistent failure to disclose—justice in this short follow-up….”