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"Innovating in a challenging environment"

31st ADLUG Meeting

Miriam de La Rochefordiere

Florence, Sep. 20th, 2012

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The publisher

De Gruyter: more than 260 years of tradition in

publishing high-quality content for the academic

market.

Family owned with its own editorial teams

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Strategy

Becoming international

- Offices in Berlin, Boston and China

- Growing content in English

- Expanding collection

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• Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

• Linguistics/Literary Studies

• Library and Information Science, Library Reference

• Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Medicine

• Philosophy, History

• Law (enriched collection)

• Theology, Judaism, Religion

• Social Sciences & Economics (New!)

• Architecture and Design (New!)

Expanding subject-areas of publication

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Expanding the offer and the collection: New company divisions

- Versita : Open source eJournals (close to300

titles) and eBooks

- Berkeley electronic Press: 67 eJournals in Social

Sciences & Economics

- Birkhauser (Architecture, Design and Landscape)

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Establishing partnerships with other publishers

- Harvard University Press: eBooks

- Bolhau Verlag: eJournals and eBooks

- Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag: eJournal and eBooks

- Sellier European Law Publishers: eJournals

More than 400 journals added to the collection in 2012

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Innovating pricing models

- Flexible pricing model for eBook

One time-purchase, fix packages, pick & choose packages and single

titles, subject packages of titles in English

- Flexible pricing model for Databases

Two options: Purchase (+ annual update) and subscription

- New pricing model for eJournal

“Pick & choose packages”, in addition to single subscriptions or

subject packages

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Innovating pricing models

- eJournal archives

One-time purchase model: single title, subject package or pick and

choose package

- Special consortia offer for databases

Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR), print and online

edition, for BETH (European Libraries of Theology)

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New platform

De Gruyter online: www.degruyter.com- Integrating all electronic resources with the exception of a

few databases

- Offering state of the art tools to respond to the increasing

demand of the users (fully HTML5 – it will be easily used from

smartphones and other devices - iPad, other tablets)

- already produce Apps for iPhone and Android phones for

some publications

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To summarize

Along with the tradition of high quality in

publishing, De Gruyter’s offer is innovative, flexible

and adapted to libraries and end-users

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Your contact at De Gruyter:

Miriam de La Rochefordiere: miriam.delarochefordiere@degruyter.com

Thank you!