From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:04:16 +0000 University of Toronto Press cooperates with De Gruyter Partnership for electronic content Berlin, 12 October 2015 University of Toronto Press and De Gruyter are proud to announce that they have formed a partnership for the worldwide sales of electronic publications. These include selected new releases and a comprehensive backlist of around 2,000 e-books. The transatlantic sales cooperation expands the global reach of University of Toronto Press and strengthens the portfolio of De Gruyter with outstanding, research-intensive content and world-renowned authors. This arrangement makes University of Toronto Press the first Canadian university publisher to partner with the De Gruyter Online platform. “De Gruyter has impressed us with its international sales team and its innovative business models for libraries,” says John Yates, President of University of Toronto Press. “The collaboration offers a great opportunity to increase the visibility and accessibility of our quality-rich publications worldwide.” The University of Toronto Press, one of North America’s premier scholarly presses, was founded in 1901 and is the leading university publisher in Canada. It publishes a highly regarded academic list covering all humanities and social sciences fields, by widely acclaimed authors such as Brent D. Shaw, John K. Noyes, and Siegfried Wenzel, and a range of series including the Collected Works of Erasmus, the Letters of Benjamin Disraeli, and Toronto Iberic. “The partnership with University of Toronto Press is a big win for De Gruyter,” says Carsten Buhr, Managing Director of De Gruyter. “We’re confident that their content that we’re now offering through the De Gruyter Online platform will be of great interest to scholarly libraries and researchers worldwide.” ***** De Gruyter: De Gruyter has been publishing first-class scholarship for more than 260 years. Headquartered in Berlin, the company group releases over 1,300 new titles each year in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, natural sciences, and law; publishes more than 750 journals; and offers a wide range of digital media. The company group includes the imprints De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkhäuser, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Open, and De Gruyter Saur. For more information, visit: www.degruyter.com. University of Toronto Press (UTP) is the largest scholarly press in Canada and one of the most respected university presses in North America. Founded in 1901, UTP consists of a book publishing division, a journal publishing division, a book distribution service which provides services to more than 70 publishers, and bookstores on the three campuses of the University of Toronto. It publishes approximately 200 scholarly books and undergraduate course books per year and more than 35 journals directed at an audience of scholars, students, and libraries. Its digital solutions division – P-Shift – provides a comprehensive solution designed by UTP for publishers who need e-publishing support related to EPUB, typesetting, digital asset management, and e-book distribution. For more information, visit: www.utppublishing.com. De Gruyter Ulrike Lippe Public Relations Manager [log in to unmask] University of Toronto Press Chris Reed Publicist [log in to unmask]