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Open Access Transformation Packages
We are committed to make open access publishing possible for all our book authors in the future. With this vision in mind, we have developed new transformation and funding models for open access books. Together with partners like the Göttingen State & University Library and Jisc, we have been able to transform almost 100 books to open access through these collaborative funding models in recent years, without any costs to the authors.
The crowdfunding is organized exclusively through established library infrastructures. Instead of purchasing the ebook license or the printed book as in the past, participating institutions fund the open access publication of selected new publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Thanks to the support of 35 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2024 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors:
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German History and ensure free availability for everyone:
Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Freie Universität Berlin
Universitätsbibliothek Bern
Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
Universitätsbibliothek Bochum
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M.
Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek / Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Hannover
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol, Innsbruck
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Universitätsbibliothek Kassel - Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
Bibliothek des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz
Universitätsbibliothek Marburg
Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem (BIS) der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
Universität Potsdam
Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
Universitätsbibliothek Vechta
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Thanks to the support of 37 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2024 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors:
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Literary Studies and ensure free availability for everyone:
Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin
Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Universität Bern
Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
Universitätsbibliothek Bochum
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Technische Universität Dortmund
Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M.
Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Fernuniversität Hagen, Universitätsbibliothek
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Hannover
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover
Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Universitätsbibliothek Kassel - Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Université de Lausanne
Universitätsbibliothek Marburg
Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem (BIS) der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
Universität Potsdam
Universitätsbibliothek Trier
Universitätsbibliothek Vechta
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Thanks to the support of 39 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2024 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors:
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Linguistics and ensure free availability for everyone:
Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
Freie Universität zu Berlin
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Technische Universität Berlin / Universitätsbibliothek
Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Universität Bern
Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
Universitätsbibliothek Bochum
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Technische Universität Dortmund
Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M.
Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Fernuniversität Hagen, Universitätsbibliothek
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek / Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Hannover
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover
Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Universitätsbibliothek Kassel / Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Université de Lausanne
Bibliothek des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
Universitätsbibliothek Marburg
Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem (BIS) der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
Universität Potsdam
Universitätsbibliothek Trier
Universitätsbibliothek Vechta
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hochschulbibliothek
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
The renowned ancient studies series Millennium-Studien was successfully transformed into Open Access as part of the BMBF-funded TransMill project and with the support of the Specialized Information Service for Classical Studies, both based at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Both the backlist of the series (2004 - 2020; 88 volumes) and the new publications for 2021 and 2022 are freely available: https://www.degruyter.com/seri...
To ensure that the publications planned for 2023 to 2025 can also be published in Open Access, an Open Access consortium was founded in cooperation between De Gruyter and the Bavarian State Library, in which 36 libraries from German-speaking countries have so far participated. Their contribution ensures that the series will continue to be published in gold open access without any publication costs for the authors.
In 2024, the project is supported by the following libraries:
Thanks to the support of 36 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2023 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German History and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 37 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2023 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Literary Studies and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 40 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2022 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Linguistics and ensure free availability for everyone:
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in Business & Economics and ensure free availability for everyone:
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in Classics and ensure free availability for everyone:
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in Linguistics and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 32 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2022 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German History and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 35 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2022 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Literary Studies and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 35 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2022 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Linguistics and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 39 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2021 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Linguistics and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of 39 academic libraries, 9 frontlist publications from 2021 will be published as gold open access, without any costs to the authors.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in German Literary Studies and ensure free availability for everyone:
Thanks to the support of the Specialised Information Service Jewish Studies / Israel Studies (FID Jüdische Studien) and a network of 18 academic libraries, the following 8 publications are published as gold open access books without authors having to contribute to the publication costs. The titles were selected by the the Specialised Information Service with the involvement of the co-financing institutions.
The following institutions have contributed to the funding and thus promote the open access transformation in Jewish Studies and ensure free availability for everyone: