1 "Innovating in a challenging environment" 31st ADLUG Meeting Miriam de La Rochefordiere Florence, Sep. 20th, 2012

2 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

3 Strategy Becoming international -Offices in Berlin, Boston and China -Growing content in English -Expanding collection

4 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

5 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)

6 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

7 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

8 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)

9 New platform De Gruyter online: -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

10 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

11 Your contact at De Gruyter: Miriam de La Rochefordiere : Thank you!