De Gruyter’s Subscribe to Open program continues to grow, furthering open access in the humanities and social sciences | De Gruyter
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De Gruyter goes live on Publications Router – Research
“De Gruyter is now supplying full-text journal articles to Jisc’s Publications Router service, which then places them automatically into UK institutional repositories….”
ResearchGate and De Gruyter announce content partnership
“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.”
ResearchGate and De Gruyter announce content partnership
De Gruyter launches not-for-profit foundation: De Gruyter eBound | De Gruyter
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
“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….”
Library expands open access publishing options with Brill, De Gruyter, and SPIE – The University of Chicago Library News – The University of Chicago Library
The journal Case Reports in Perinatal Medicine starts with Open Access
“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
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
“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
“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
“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….”
Knowledge Unlatched Strikes Again and Again | Jeff Pooley
“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….”
De Gruyter Position on Plan S
[Undated] “Plan S has little to no regard for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The creators of Plan S have used the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) research ecosystem as their main model and have presented a “one size fits all” approach with a focus on journals – which are key for STEM – and have practically ignored monographs – which are of greater importance in HSS. A single, unified approach to delivering open access across the full spectrum of academic publishing is unfeasible.
A plan driven by payments from direct grants is incompatible with disciplines and sub-fields where there is no direct grant funding. Funding for the humanities, unlike funding for much of STEM, is not usually centralized, and often comes from educational institutions directly, rather than well-endowed foundations. Furthermore, unlike STEM, many disciplines also have a more national focus, and available funding is therefore even more difficult to identify and secure.
It is not possible for the vast majority of HSS (Humanities and Social Science) journals to simply ‘flip’ to APC-based open access. Many serve relatively small research communities and combine low publication volumes with high rejection rates. They will not be able to provide the same level of service to their communities on the basis of a small number of capped APCs….”
Access your library’s print collection online
“De Gruyter and our Publisher Partners would like to offer digital access to the thousands of print books held in university and college libraries….
– 75,000 DRM-free eBooks from ©1650 through ©2016 on degruyter.com
– Free access granted through June 30, 2020
– A librarian from your institution must complete the registration form and agree to the Free-Use Guidelines for your academic institution to participate. Individual access will not be granted.
– The offer supports the following authentication methods: IP Range, Shibboleth / OpenAthens (existing De Gruyter customers only), Proxy Products, Trusted Proxy Server
– Discovery tools including MARC records, KBART files, OCLC, EBSCO Discovery and Ex Libris Services are provided
– A breakdown of the 75,000 titles by our 17 Partners and their copyright years in our “Overview” tab…”