This is fabulous news.  Way to go De Gruyter!  I’m so pleased to see publishers working direct with Unglue.it. Berlin, 2 April 2013 – Starting today, the academic publisher De Gruyter will be offering 100 titles from its e-dition series at the crowdfunding platform Unglue.it. Each individual title that raises 2,100 dollars at the site [...]

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De Gruyter Signs 10,000 Title eBook Agreement with YBP Library Services – Agreement to add academic ebook titles to GOBI3 database – Updated:  Titles will be available on the De Gruyter Online platform as well as ebrary and EBL via Gobi3. CHARLOTTE, N.C. – March 4, 2013 – De Gruyter, the international academic publishing house, [...]

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De Gruyter acquires two academic publishers, plans to digitize collections.  More from the press release: De Gruyter Purchases Two Academic Publishers: Oldenbourg and Akademie Berlin, February 26, 2013 – De Gruyter is proud to announce the acquisition of two academic publishers with a long and rich tradition: Akademie Verlag, based in Berlin, and Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, [...]

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Below is a bit of detail on two publishers that will work with De Gruyter’s new PDA model.  If you haven’t read about the new PDA model from De Gruyter, take a look at the white paper. Press release from De Gruyter:  Berlin, 28 November 2012 – The idea behind Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) is [...]

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The following is a press release received from De Gruyter: Integrated Publishing at the De Gruyter Group: All Digital Content at One Platform De Gruyter Online now features all content from Birkhäuser and the open-access publisher Versita Berlin, 2 October 2012 – Over 450,000 e-books and e-journal contributions, over 15 million database entries, and some [...]

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Basel, 23 August 2012 – At the end of September the publishing house Birkhäuser will launch one of the largest collections of e-books in the fields of architecture, design, and landscaping. With over 300 titles the e-book collection represents a large majority of Birkhäuser’s publications since 2005. Many of these e-books are beautifully illustrated, and [...]

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Patron Driven Acquisition has gained much interest from libraries these days. As a result, many are writing about their experiences with the new business model. Today, Inside Higher Education featured an article on “PDA In the Library,” (E-book acquisition based on use and demand could save libraries thousands). This article discusses the benefits of PDA, [...]

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Today, De Gruyter and The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) announced that they have reached an agreement for De Gruyter to acquire bepress’s journal portfolio. The agreement covers a total of 67 journals in the areas of Law, Business/Economics, Humanities, and Natural Sciences.  Sven Fund, CEO of De Gruyter, answered some questions about the acquisition for [...]

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Yesterday I spoke with Dr. Sven Fund, the CEO of DeGruyter.  News to me, DeGruyter has been publishing for 262 years! We discussed DeGruyter’s ebook program including their e-ditions program.  E-ditions provides “on demand” requests for digital or print copies of thousands of backlist titles.  Listen to the interview here. Over 30 interviews with librarians, [...]

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I received a nice email from De Gruyter about their e-dition service.  De Gruyter e-dition makes over 60,000 backlist titles from De Gruyter’s 260+ year publishing history available for purchase.  This includes titles no longer available in print and titles that would otherwise not be converted to digital format.  At a customer’s request, a formerly [...]

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