Category Archives: oa.de_gruyter

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….”

De Gruyter Position on Plan S

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[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

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“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…”

Access your library’s print collection online

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“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…”

MSU LIBRARIES AND DE GRUYTER SIGN AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING FOR MSU AUTHORS | MSU Libraries

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“The MSU Libraries have signed a three-year “transformative” read-and-publish (R + P) agreement with the De Gruyter publishing house to provide default open access publishing for all articles by MSU authors in De Gruyter journals. This arrangement means that MSU lead authors publishing in these journals will no longer have to pay the usual De Gruyter article processing charge, which can amount to hundreds of dollars. MSU-authored articles will be visible to all readers, even those without an MSU Net ID, increasing the visibility of MSU research on the internet. The agreement also gives readers with an authenticating MSU Net ID access to articles in a full set of 347 De Gruyter subscription journals. …”

OAPEN and De Gruyter enable retroactive open access for ERC-funded publications

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“The OAPEN Foundation and De Gruyter have developed a framework agreement that outlines good practice for retroactive open access to books and chapters resulting from research funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme (FP7).

Since FP7 did not include a strict open access mandate for publications, publications resulting from these grants are generally not freely accessible. The framework agreement between De Gruyter and the OAPEN Foundation supports authors by establishing compliance with the “best effort” requirement to make publications open access….”

OAPEN and De Gruyter enable retroactive open access for ERC-funded publications

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“The OAPEN Foundation and De Gruyter have developed a framework agreement that outlines good practice for retroactive open access to books and chapters resulting from research funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme (FP7).

Since FP7 did not include a strict open access mandate for publications, publications resulting from these grants are generally not freely accessible. The framework agreement between De Gruyter and the OAPEN Foundation supports authors by establishing compliance with the ‘best effort’ requirement to make publications open access….”

PUBLISHING OPEN ACCESS BOOKS. AN AUTHOR’S PERSPECTIVE

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“Join the DOAB and De Gruyter on Monday, 4th March, to find out what it takes to publish a book in OA. The webinar will focus on the editorial process, funding and promotion strategies that turn a submitted manuscript into a well-cited open access book. This webinar is designed to help authors understand the OA conundrum and to equip them with the knowledge needed to effectively publish a book in open access.

  • OA Books – Why OA for Books? Citation, downloads and global reach
  • Book Funding: Where to find it?
  • Fast Track to Publishing: OA Publishing Times
  • Open Access Book: How to make sure the title is visible, discovered and cited?
  • Directory of Open Access Books: Why it matters for a book to be rapidly indexed?…”

Portico announces the trigger of 70 Open Access publications

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“I’m pleased to share the news that 70 Open Access e-journals formerly hosted through De Gruyter are now available through the Portico archive. The content includes titles published by De Gruyter Poland as well as six publishers in Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. Download the full title list, which includes the metadata and URL for each journal.

The content for these titles is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, it has “triggered” and is available to the community via the Portico archive. These titles were originally published on an Open Access basis, and will remain Open Access through Portico.

 

To date, Portico has had 118 trigger events—96 of them Open Access….”

Open Science | Your guide to Open Access publishing and Open Science

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“The OpenScience.com blog is affiliated with De Gruyter Open Access, an Open Access imprint of De Gruyter.

This blog strives to serve as a comprehensive guide to Open Access publishing for scholars across a wide variety of academic fields. The blog provides information and advice on how to publish books and articles in the open access format. Additionally, it shares suggestions on how to increase publication visibility and citation counts. The blog also publishes articles that pertain to the wider cultural, social and economic context in which the open access model operates….”

De Gruyter bündelt Open Access-Aktivitäten

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From Google’s English: “The independent Berlin publishing house De Gruyter re-organizes its open access business. The editorial part of the open access business will be more integrated into the existing editorial sector. In addition, a separate business unit will be set up to provide open access publishing services to universities, institutions and scientific societies.

The new company will be managed by Jacek Ciesielski as Vice President of Publishing Services. Ciesielski will focus his long-term expertise and energy on the development of publishing services for high-quality third-party publishing, for which De Gruyter does not provide a peer-review process.

Jacek Ciesielski is the founder of the Open Access publishing company Versita, which was acquired by De Gruyter in the year 2012 under the De Gruyter Open brand. Ciesielski has successfully advanced the open access business and has developed into an important and rapidly growing key area within De Gruyters….”