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CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF PUBLISHER PARTNER PROGRAM WITH US |
10 years ago, De Gruyter and Harvard University Press formed a partnership with a specific mission in mind. Harvard University Press, together with Yale University Press, and MIT Press was, at the time, the distributor for De Gruyter’s print books in the Americas. While we did not have the infrastructure in place to fulfill print orders, we could offer Harvard to distribute their eBooks. This partnership laid the base for our Publisher Partnership Program today, which includes 33 publishers globally, with ten thousands of books and 39 journals online. |
The uniqueness of the University Press Library model has warranted recognition from several popular news media, including Inside Higher Ed. |
Podcast interview with Steve Fallon, on the University Press Library Collaborative: An Interview with Against The Grain. |
Interview with Steve Fallon by columnist Deni Auclair in the print issue of Against the Grain on Emerging Tech: To Be or not To Be? |
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We are proud of the academic quality and scope of our Program. Each partner press has been an addition to our overall mission: Together with our partners, we aim to promote the publishing of premium, scholarly monographs in an increasingly difficult financial landscape, and support scholars in reaching the right audience for their research. Our partners complement each other, and their publications create a unique pool of content on our platform. Our responsibility lies in the representation of our partners, their brand and their content in the library market. After ten years of growth, we can happily acknowledge that this strategy has been successful. |
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With the growth of the Publisher Program, we started to realize that we are in a unique position: being a publisher ourselves while also distributing other publishers to institutions worldwide. This position enables us to see challenges and opportunities, and let us create initiatives that aimed at making a change in the industry. |
Publisher Partner Program also created opportunities for more efficient, enhanced workflows. By expanding and improving our program we’ve seen direct results in post-purchase services like our CARE standards. In addition to helping disseminate this scholarly content we’re also working behind the scenes to constantly improve the metadata of our content as well as our partners. |
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In 2011, De Gruyter realized the growing importance of access to historical sources of its own archive. This development was obviously paired with new technological developments that facilitated on-demand digitization and digital printing of POD hardcovers. Just one year later, in 2012, we took what we learned to a new level and the idea of digitizing HUP’s archive evolved. With the support and the courage of Harvard, we started digitizing 3,000 titles from their archive that were out of print and in 2013 could offer them as ebooks and PODs on our platform for the first time.
We have learned a lot since then and other projects for numerous partners have followed. Last, but not least, De Gruyter’s own books archive was completely digitized, because from our partners’ archives we had learned that completeness is key and that you cannot predict which content might become valuable for researchers in the future. So, we stopped our on-demand service and started digitizing another 30,000 titles from our own archive. LEARN MORE ABOUT DGBA In total, De Gruyter has digitized over 50,000 titles from partners and its own archive since 2011. Here is a small glance into our workflow. Enjoy! |
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The Publisher Partner team is a small team based in Boston and Berlin. If you have any questions, or simply want to say hi, here we are! |
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