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

2  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 titles available as e-Book About De Gruyter

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

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

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

6 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 Active ageing and solidarity between generations in Europe. First results from SHARE after the economic crisis. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

7 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 ePUB) 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

8 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 publishing&catid=17:open-access

9 De Gruyter Open Access Journal Publishing Number of Open Access Journals published by De Gruyter

10 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

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

12 If you have any further questions, please contact Dr. Gerhard Pappert Acquisitions Editor Science & Technology Leyla Dörflinger Content Acquisition Manager

13 Thank you for your attention.