DE GRUYTER Open Access Dr Gerhard Pappert Munich

DE GRUYTER Open Access Dr. Gerhard Pappert Munich, December 4, 2014 1

About De Gruyter § Roots going back to 1749 § Family-owned company with independent advisory board § Approx. 250 employees § Offices in Berlin, Basel, Beijing, Boston and Munich § Imprints: Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkhäuser, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Open, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Saur § Publishing porfolio covering STM, social sciences, and humanities § Over 1300 new book titles each year § More than 600 journals (300 Open Access) § Entire backlist of over 50000 titles available as e-Book 2

Challenges of scholarly communication Authors want high visibility. OA increases visibility and hence impact of their high quality research. Funding Bodies Funding bodies demand public access to research funded with taxpayer money. Libraries As journals prices constantly increase but library budgets remain static, libraries and universities demand new solutions to make research findings accessible. 3

Journal and monograph crisis Libraries Funding Bodies OA Free access to information Authors Impact & Reputation Publishers have to meet new demands! 4

Open Access Business Models at De Gruyter Complete Open Access Books Framework agreements with German Research Foundation and Max Planck Society Complete Open Access Journals Framework agreements with scholarly societies Hybrid Journals Hybrid Books Open access articles optional for every established journal Open access articles optional for individual chapters in published books 5

Example: De Gruyter Open Access Book in Cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Börsch-Supan, Axel (Ed. ), Martina Brandt (Ed. ), Howard Litwin (Ed. ), et al. 2013. Active ageing and solidarity between generations in Europe. First results from SHARE after the economic crisis. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. 6

Advantages of Publishing Open Access books with De Gruyter • Service: Delivery of OA content and meta data to institutional repositories and reporting system, abstracting & indexing services, discovery services • Creative Commons licenses supporting unrestricted digital research environment; author can chose under which CC license his work will be published • Simultaneous publication in print and online (PDF and e. PUB) • Peer-reviews standards • Professional typesetting and copy-editing • Available on the De Gruyter online platform, full text retrieval, e. g. searchable through Google • Long-term archiving through Portico and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek • Global distribution and marketing services 7

Framework Contract between the Max-Planck-Society and De Gruyter regarding Open Access Books • Authors affiliated with a Max Planck Institute receive a discount if more than one Open Access monograph is published with De Gruyter • No central payment by Max Planck Digital Library • Contract details available for MPG employees on the website of the MPDL http: //www. mpdl. mpg. de/en/? id=50: open-access-publishing&catid=17: open-access 8

De Gruyter Open Access Journal Publishing Number of Open Access Journals published by De Gruyter 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 9

Example: De Gruyter OA Journal in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, Germany 10

De Gruyter Open Access Journal Publishing Effective application to abstracting services including Thomson Increasing visibility and number of citations Benefits Seamless integration in digital research environments Distribution to many readers globally 11

If you have any further questions, please contact Dr. Gerhard Pappert Acquisitions Editor Science & Technology gerhard. pappert@degruyter. com Leyla Dörflinger Content Acquisition Manager e-mail: leyla. doerflinger@degruyteropen. com 12

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