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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:08:11 +0000
Subject: De Gruyter and university presses launch "Rights, Action and
Social Responsibility" initiative

De Gruyter and Publishing Partners support fact-based analysis

Launch of “Rights, Action and Social Responsibility” initiative

Berlin and Boston, 6 April 2017

De Gruyter and a number of prestigious university presses are making
books and journal articles across nine topical areas freely available
until the end of 2017 on degruyter.com.

Broadening access to these areas of scholarship enables more people,
including non-academics, to address these issues in an informed
manner: it helps to combat false news sources, to reflect on the
nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all
members of society.

“Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change,
international relations, and constitutional and human rights are
currently at the forefront of the national discourse, especially, but
not only, in the United States. Together, De Gruyter and its partners
are keen to support a thoughtful and informed debate on these
sensitive and serious issues,” said Steve Fallon, Director Publishing
Partner Program.

The topical areas included in the initiative are:  Constitutional
History, Dissent, Truth & Ethics, Environmental Studies, Gender
Studies, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Immigration & Urbanism and Islamic
Studies.

The content includes more than 500 books and selected journal articles
from Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Harvard
University Press, Princeton University Press, University of
Pennsylvania Press, Transcript-Verlag and De Gruyter. Access to the
content via this link.

Eric Merkel-Sobotta
Director Communications

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