Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter
Founded 1749
Founder Walter de Gruyter
Country of origin Germany
Headquarters location Berlin
Key people Anke Beck (managing director), Carsten Buhr (managing director)
Imprints Birkhäuser
De Gruyter Akademie
De Gruyter Mouton
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
De Gruyter Open
De Gruyter Saur
Number of employees 350
Official website www.degruyter.com

Walter de Gruyter GmbH (German: [ˈɡʁɔʏ̯tɐ] or [ˈxʁɔʏ̯tɐ]; brand name: De Gruyter) is a scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. The company has its roots in the bookstore of the Königliche Realschule in Berlin, which had been granted the royal privilege to print books by King Frederick II of Prussia in 1749.[1] In 1801 the store was taken over by Georg Reimer. In 1919, Walter de Gruyter (1862–1923) merged it with 4 other publishing houses into the company that became Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co in 1923, and Walter de Gruyter GmbH in 2012.[1]

Imprints and partnerships

Several former publishing houses have become imprints of De Gruyter. "De Gruyter Mouton" (formerly "Mouton de Gruyter") was purchased by de Gruyter in 1977. It was originally known as Mouton Publishers and based in The Hague. The imprint specializes in the field of linguistics and publishes academic journals, research monographs, reference works, multimedia publications, and bibliographies. K. G. Saur Verlag, based in Munich, was acquired in 2006 and retains the imprint "De Gruyter Saur". It specializes in reference information for libraries. De Gruyter acquired the journals of Berkeley Electronic Press in 2011. The Swiss publisher Birkhäuser became part of De Gruyter after its bankruptcy in 2012.[2] In addition, De Gruyter acquired Versita in 2012, an open access publisher.[3] Since 2014 Versita is fully integrated into the imprint "De Gruyter Open", which also hosts several so-called mega journals.[4] In 2013 De Gruyter acquired two academic publishers from Cornelsen Verlag: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag and Akademie Verlag.[5] De Gruyter is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "A Short History of the Publishing House". Walter de Gruyter. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  2. ↑ "Birkhäuser". Walter de Gruyter. 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  3. ↑ "DeGruyter acquires Versita, increasing their open-access publishing business".
  4. ↑ "De Gruyter Open converts eight subscription journals to Open Access megajournals". De Gruyter Open.
  5. ↑ "De Gruyter kauft die Wissenschaftsverlage Oldenbourg und Akademie". Press release. Walter de Gruyter.
  6. ↑ "Good for publishers". knowledgeunlatched.org.

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