De Gruyter

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De Gruyter

Alina PrzydańskaLibrary Information Manager“Jacek Lewinson - Publishers' Representative Central/Eastern Europe”[email protected]

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De Gruyter – The Basics

History going back over 250 years

One of the oldest publishers in Germany

Over 200 employees

8000 titles in stock – 35% of them in English

700 new book titles per year

127 journals and yearbooks – all online

Over 20 online databases

Currently over 1000 eBooks available

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De Gruyter - Online Platform

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De Gruyter - Online Platform

Launched in 2008 de Gruyter‘s online platform Reference

Global currently hosts:

Articles from 127 eJournals and yearbooks

Over 1000 eBooks

A growing number of online databases and reference

works

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Reference Global - Functionality and Hosting

Simple and advanced searches, browsing alphabetically and by subject area across the entire platform

eBooks and eJournals actively linked across all subject areas

Option to recommend eBooks and eJournal articles to librarians and colleagues

Incorporation of bibliographic data into programmes for administering literature and citations

Display of most frequently read and cited articles together with related content

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Reference Global - Functionality and Hosting

Librarians can manage collections using library administration tools:

- Download MARC 21 records

- Check Counter compliant usage statistics

- Control IP ranges

- Add library logo and banners to the site

Platform interface available in English or German

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eBooks at De Gruyter

Approximately 700 new titles are added annually.

All De Gruyter eBooks are full-text searchable, indexed,

and provided with DOIs and MARC records. Long-term

archiving is supplied by Portico.

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eBook Plus

An increasing number of De Gruyter’s print reference

works are available online in eBookPLUS format.

The eBookPLUS format combines the content of a book

with enhanced, database-like search functionality.

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Purchase options and access

De Gruyter eBooks can be ordered individually, as pick and choose packages, or as fixed packages.

The eBook price is the same as the print price. Our eBooks are available for purchase only. There

are no annual access fees. Authentication is via the IP address of the institution. All eBooks can be accessed simultaneously by an

unlimited number of authorized users, whether on campus or remotly, for an unlimited period of time.

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eBook packages

Pick and Choose Packages

Customers can select and purchase between 20 and 50 eBooks and receive a 5%

discount on the total list price. For purchases of 51 or more eBooks, we grant a

10% discount.

Fixed Packages

eBooks published in a given calendar year are available as a complete package or in

the following subject or language specific packages: Classical Studies English Language Titles Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Studies (HSK) Law Library and Information Science, Library Reference Linguistics, Literature Linguistics Titles in English Philosophy, History Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) Theology, Religion, Judaism

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DE GRUYTER e-ditionup to date since 1749

Each title is available as an eBook (for libraries and

institutions) and as a hardcover reprint. If retro-

digitization of a title is necessary, delivery will take ten

weeks.

Thanks to e-dition, even titles published way back in

1749 are available with today’s state-of-the-art

functionality. Like all De Gruyter eBooks, e-dition titles

are full-text searchable, indexed, and provided with DOIs

and MARC records.

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Publishing Programme – Online Databases

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Online Databases - Basics

Currently over 20 databases available online

Databases with predominantly German language content

have an English language user interface

Databases are currently hosted on more than one

platform. It is intended to bring them all on to de

Gruyter‘s Reference Global platform as soon as

possible.

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Key Databases – Biography

World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online)

The most comprehensive and extensive biographical collection available online!

Short biographical details on over 6 million people from all over the world

8.4 million original biographical articles, published from 1559 to the end of the 20th century

Includes information on individuals from all classes and professions - from all the countries and regions of the world ranging from the 4th millennium BC to the present

Based on the successive digitization of the microfiche collections of K.G. Saur Verlag’s Biographical Archives - a total of 57 Online Archives

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Key Databases – German Literature

Deutsche Literatur des 18. JahrhundertsOnline / 18th Century German Literature Online

• Contains first editions and first published complete

editions by more than 600 German-speaking authors

of the 18th century

• A total of 2,700 works with almost 4,500 volumes

reflect the broad spectrum of German literature from

the early stages of the age of Enlightenment to the

later part of the period.

• High quality research database for students, post-

graduate researchers, professors and scholars of

German studies, linguistics and history

• Each work is presented as a digital facsimile and can

be browsed like a book

Languages: German

User Interface: German / English

Standard purchase price € 43,190 and annual rental price € 9.190 (ownership after 6 years).Prices negotiable in export markets.

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Key Databases – German Literature

Der literarische ExpressionismusOnline/ German Literary Expressionism Online

Makes available 151 journals, yearbooks, collections and anthologies from the early 20th century comprising a total of 2,404 issues in full text

Contains 39,183 articles on 70,783 pages from 5,479

authors

Serves as a unique source on German literature of the Modern era but also for the study of the history of art, theatre, film, dance and music between 1910 and 1930

Language: German

User Interface: German / English

Standard purchase price € 12,290 and annual rental price € 2,490 (ownership after 6 years). Prices negotiable in export markets.

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Key Databases – Art

The Artists of the World. International Database of Artists.Online

Over 1 million artists from A to Z

Over 500,000 extensive signed biographical articles, searchable in full text – with a further 7,000 added each year

Over 6,000 articles available in both German and their original languages

Regular updates: details, exhibitions and sources are continually supplemented and updated

Online First: New contributions are added to the database immediately

Annual subscription from January 2010:

Online only: € 2.490,–

Print & Online: € 2.990,–

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Key Database – Theology

Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception

Set to become the most comprehensive international reference work on the bible and biblical reception

Offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and developments of the Bible

Documents the history of the bible’s reception in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Other Religions, Philosophy, Literature, Visual Arts, Music, Film

Date of publication: 2009 – 2018

Online first

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Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

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The new database Germanische Altertumskunde Online (GAO)

provides a unique research medium representing the current state

of knowledge of Old Germanic History,

Germanische Altertumskunde Online (GAO) includes Germanic

and Northern European cultural history from the subject areas of

history, archeology, art history, legal history, ethnology and

religious studies.

Key Databases – Old Germanic History

Germanische Altertumskunde Online

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IBZ Online – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature inthe Humanities and Social Sciences

Published since 1896

International and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.

Contains over 2,956,240 journal articles from about 11,381 journals.

Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually

Updated monthly

Language: MultilingualUser Interface: German / EnglishUpdated monthlyAnnual online subscription price € 3,399.00

Nietzsche Online

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The database Nietzsche Online provides researchers and readers

complete online access to the editions, interpretations and

reference works on one of the most important philosophers.

Users thus obtain access to a comprehensive database containing

the research results of the last forty years.

Apart from the authoritative editions of the works (KGW) and the

letters (KGB), the database Nietzsche Online contains all De

Gruyter publications on Nietzsche.

Nietzsche Online

Zoology Online

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Covering nearly 100 years of zoological research, the Handbook

of Zoology represents a vast store of knowledge. But with the

speed of scientific discovery in the past decades, a new format is

required - online.

Zoologie Online, now available, is a database which can be easily

searched and rapidly updated to reflect the current state of

phylogenetic knowledge.

Zoology Online

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Key Databases – General Reference

Yearbook of International Organizations OnlineEdited by Union of International Associations

Most comprehensive compendium of international

organizations fully searchable via the Internet

Over 61,800 profiles of organizations with current

contact details

Biography profiles of key figures in International

Organizations

Useful analyses & statistics, graphic presentation of

networks of international organizations and their

relations

Integration via hyperlinks into the set of other UIA

databases

Languages: English

User interface: English

Updated monthly

Annual subscription price: € 2,049.00