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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:45:51 +0200

PRESS RELEASE

De Gruyter Presents Open Access Distribution Model for Libraries –

Unrestricted Backlist Access – De Gruyter Presents its New Open Access
Model for E-dition Titles

Berlin, 15 April 2013 – With De Gruyter's new Open Access model, some
45,000 e-dition titles from the publishing house's backlist can be
made freely accessible. For €1,500 or $2,100 customers can purchase an
e-book in the same standard as a work produced normally through De
Gruyter's e-dition program. The book is then made freely accessible at
De Gruyter Online under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

This new Open Access offering is directed first and foremost at
libraries and research institutes, and a discount is offered when
multiple titles are purchased simultaneously. Yet individuals can also
take advantage of this offer. Authors, for example, can choose to make
their previously published works available as Open Access. The new
Open Access model is available for all publications released in 2004
or earlier and which are not available in any "Best Of" packages.

"Providing an Open Access option for e-dition titles expands De
Gruyter's existing Open Access offerings," says Katrin Siems, Vice
President of Marketing & Sales at De Gruyter. "Library customers and
authors can not only make new publications and current journal
articles available as Open Access – now, they can also make archive
titles freely accessible in digital format."

At the beginning of April De Gruyter began offering 100 selected
titles from its e-dition program at the crowdfunding platform
www.unglue.it, so that they can be made accessible worldwide as Open
Access books.

Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
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