Announcing de Gruyter Open Library: An Innovative Open Access Model for Journals and Book Series

["Kathryn Ruehle" <kruehle@degruyterny.com>]

For immediate release:

Announcing de Gruyter Open Library: An Innovative Open Access 
Model for Journals and Book Series

de Gruyter now offers an innovative publishing model for its 
journals and book series: de Gruyter Open Library. The de Gruyter 
Open Library provides an opportunity for authors to be published 
in a valuable hybrid model for both books and journals. Dr. Sven 
Fund, Managing Director of de Gruyter, stated: "In the interests 
of an efficient supply of scholarly information, we wish to 
create an offer with de Gruyter Open Library that meets the 
shifting interests of the authors, customers and partners alike. 
Regardless of discipline and publication format, we see the 
transparency of our offer as a prerequisite for the success of 
future cooperation with scholars from all fields."  For the 
hybrid model, permission of the publisher of the series or volume 
will be obtained in advance.

de Gruyter offers a standard Open Access Model: for the price of 
$2,450 per article, authors can provide readers with access to 
their contributions free of charge on de Gruyter's online 
platform www.reference-global.com. Regardless of the discipline 
and length of the publication, the model for articles from 
journals, book series or collected volumes will be applied. The 
choice of Open Access has no influence on the peer review process 
and the resulting scholarly quality of the articles. Besides 
publishing the article on de Gruyter's own platform, de Gruyter 
will archive the links in an Open Access Repository as a service 
provided to the authors. In the event of a calculated 20% 
increase in revenues through Open Access, a future downward 
adjustment of the product price is planned.

Referring to the objective, Dr. Sven Fund maintained that "with 
the de Gruyter Open Library we afford a change from 
subscriber-based business models to one financed directly by 
scholars, as demanded by international institutions promoting 
scholarship".

For more information on de Gruyter Open Library, please visit
http://www.degruyter.com/cont/glob/openAccessEn.cfm

Contact:
Kathryn Ruehle
Marketing Director, North America
212-564-9223 ext.100
kruehle@degruyterny.com