De Gruyter
De Gruyter (German: [ˈɡʁɔʏ̯tɐ]) or Walter de Gruyter GmbH is a scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. The company has its roots in the bookstore of the Königliche Realschule in Berlin, which had been granted the royal privilege to print books by King Frederick II of Prussia in 1749.[3] In 1801 the store was taken over by Georg Reimer. In 1919, Walter de Gruyter (1862–1923) merged it with 4 other publishing houses into the company that became Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co in 1923, and Walter de Gruyter GmbH in 2012.[3]
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| Founded | 1749 |
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| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Berlin |
| Distribution | HGV (most of world) TriLiteral (Americas Books) EBSCO (US journals)[1] |
| Key people | Carsten Buhr |
| Imprints | De Gruyter Mouton De Gruyter Saur Birkhäuser De Gruyter Akademie De Gruyter Oldenbourg |
| Revenue | €63 million (2017)[2] |
| No. of employees | 350[2] |
| Official website | www |
De Gruyter maintains offices around the globe, in Berlin, Basel, Boston, Munich, Beijing, Warsaw, and Vienna.[4]
Imprints and partnerships
Several former publishing houses have become imprints of De Gruyter.
- "De Gruyter Mouton/De Gruyter Saur" (formerly "Mouton de Gruyter") was purchased by de Gruyter in 1977. It was originally known as Mouton Publishers and based in The Hague. The imprint specializes in the field of linguistics and publishes academic journals, research monographs, reference works, multimedia publications, and bibliographies.
- K. G. Saur Verlag, based in Munich, was acquired in 2006 and retains the imprint "De Gruyter Saur". It specializes in reference information for libraries.
- De Gruyter acquired the journals of Berkeley Electronic Press in 2011.
- After filing for bankruptcy protection in 2012, publisher Birkhäuser was acquired by De Gruyter.[5]
- In 2012 De Gruyter also acquired the open access publisher Versita.[6] Since 2014 Versita is fully integrated into the imprint "De Gruyter Open", which also hosts several so-called mega journals[7] and a blog OpenScience[8] on open access in academia, in reflection of the growing global popularity of open access among researchers and academic institutions.[9]
- In 2013 De Gruyter acquired two academic publishers from Cornelsen Verlag: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag and Akademie Verlag.[10]
In 2018, De Gruyter Open was relaunched as Sciendo.[11][12]
De Gruyter is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.[13]
See also
- Berkeley Electronic Press
- Journals published by de Gruyter
- Books published by de Gruyter
- Open access in Germany
References
- "Trade". Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "Company Presentation" (PDF). De Gruyter. 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- "De Gruyter in a nutshell". Walter de Gruyter. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- "Our Locations". Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- "Birkhäuser". Walter de Gruyter. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- "DeGruyter acquires Versita, increasing their open-access publishing business". Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.
- "De Gruyter Open converts eight subscription journals to Open Access megajournals". De Gruyter Open.
- "OpenScience". De Gruyter Open.
- "Global Shift Towards Open Access Publishing: Key Challenges for Research Community". Visakhi, P.
- "De Gruyter kauft die Wissenschaftsverlage Oldenbourg und Akademie". Press release. Walter de Gruyter.
- "De Gruyter launches new division Sciendo". Information Today Europe. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "De Gruyter launches Sciendo | STM Publishing News". Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "Good for publishers". knowledgeunlatched.org.
Further reading
- Fouquet-Plümscher, Doris: Aus dem Archiv des Verlages Walter de Gruyter: Briefe, Urkunden, Dokumente. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1980.
