1. De Gruyter Alina Przydańska Library Information Manager
“Jacek Lewinson - Publishers' Representative Central/Eastern Europe”

2. De Gruyter – The Basics
History going back over 250 years
One of the oldest publishers in Germany
Over 200 employees
8000 titles in stock – 35% of them in English
700 new book titles per year
127 journals and yearbooks – all online
Over 20 online databases
Currently over 1000 eBooks available

3. De Gruyter - Online Platform

4. De Gruyter - Online Platform
Launched in 2008 de Gruyter‘s online platform Reference
Global currently hosts:
Articles from 127 eJournals and yearbooks
Over 1000 eBooks
A growing number of online databases and reference works

5. Reference Global - Functionality and Hosting
Simple and advanced searches, browsing alphabetically and by subject area across the entire platform
eBooks and eJournals actively linked across all subject areas
Option to recommend eBooks and eJournal articles to librarians and colleagues
Incorporation of bibliographic data into programmes for administering literature and citations
Display of most frequently read and cited articles together with related content

6. Reference Global - Functionality and Hosting
Librarians can manage collections using library administration tools:
- Download MARC 21 records
- Check Counter compliant usage statistics
- Control IP ranges
- Add library logo and banners to the site
Platform interface available in English or German

7. eBooks at De Gruyter
Approximately 700 new titles are added annually.
All De Gruyter eBooks are full-text searchable, indexed,
and provided with DOIs and MARC records. Long-term
archiving is supplied by Portico.

8. eBook Plus
An increasing number of De Gruyter’s print reference works are available online in eBookPLUS format.
The eBookPLUS format combines the content of a book with enhanced, database-like search functionality.

9. Purchase options and access
De Gruyter eBooks can be ordered individually, as pick and choose packages, or as fixed packages.
The eBook price is the same as the print price.
Our eBooks are available for purchase only. There
are no annual access fees.
Authentication is via the IP address of the institution.
All eBooks can be accessed simultaneously by an unlimited number of authorized users, whether on campus or remotly, for an unlimited period of time.

10. eBook packages Pick and Choose Packages
Customers can select and purchase between 20 and 50 eBooks and receive a 5% discount on the total list price. For purchases of 51 or more eBooks, we grant a 10% discount.
Fixed Packages
eBooks published in a given calendar year are available as a complete package or in the following subject or language specific packages:
Classical Studies
English Language Titles
Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Studies (HSK)
Law
Library and Information Science, Library Reference
Linguistics, Literature
Linguistics Titles in English
Philosophy, History
Science, Technology and Medicine (STM)
Theology, Religion, Judaism
Subject or English language-only packages offer a 15% discount on the list prices of the individual titles while the complete package offers a discount of 20%.

11. DE GRUYTER e-dition up to date since 1749
Each title is available as an eBook (for libraries and institutions) and as a hardcover reprint. If retro-digitization of a title is necessary, delivery will take ten weeks.
Thanks to e-dition, even titles published way back in 1749 are available with today’s state-of-the-art functionality. Like all De Gruyter eBooks, e-dition titles are full-text searchable, indexed, and provided with DOIs and MARC records.

12. Publishing Programme – Online Databases

13. Online Databases - Basics
Currently over 20 databases available online
Databases with predominantly German language content have an English language user interface
Databases are currently hosted on more than one platform. It is intended to bring them all on to de Gruyter‘s Reference Global platform as soon as possible.

14. Key Databases – Biography
World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online)
The most comprehensive and extensive biographical collection available online!
Short biographical details on over 6 million people from all over the world
8.4 million original biographical articles, published from 1559 to the end of the 20th century
Includes information on individuals from all classes and professions - from all the countries and regions of the world ranging from the 4th millennium BC to the present
Based on the successive digitization of the microfiche collections of K.G. Saur Verlag’s Biographical Archives - a total of 57 Online Archives

15. Key Databases – German Literature
Deutsche Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts
Online / 18th Century German Literature Online
Contains first editions and first published complete editions by more than 600 German-speaking authors of the 18th century
A total of 2,700 works with almost 4,500 volumes reflect the broad spectrum of German literature from the early stages of the age of Enlightenment to the later part of the period.
High quality research database for students, post-graduate researchers, professors and scholars of German studies, linguistics and history
Each work is presented as a digital facsimile and can be browsed like a book
Languages: German
User Interface: German / English
Standard purchase price
€ 43,190 and annual rental price € (ownership after 6 years).
Prices negotiable in export markets.

16. Key Databases – German Literature
Der literarische Expressionismus
Online/ German Literary Expressionism Online
Makes available 151 journals, yearbooks, collections and anthologies from the early 20th century comprising a total of 2,404 issues in full text
Contains 39,183 articles on 70,783 pages from 5,479 authors
Serves as a unique source on German literature of the Modern era but also for the study of the history of art, theatre, film, dance and music between 1910 and 1930
Language: German
User Interface: German / English
Standard purchase price € 12,290 and annual rental price € 2,490 (ownership after 6 years). Prices negotiable in export markets.

17. Key Databases – Art The Artists of the World.
International Database of Artists.
Online
Over 1 million artists from A to Z
Over 500,000 extensive signed biographical articles, searchable in full text – with a further 7,000 added each year
Over 6,000 articles available in both German and their original languages
Regular updates: details, exhibitions and sources are continually supplemented and updated
Online First: New contributions are added to the database immediately
Annual subscription from January 2010:
Online only: € 2.490,–
Print & Online: € 2.990,–

18. Key Database – Theology
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
Set to become the most comprehensive international reference work on the bible and biblical reception
Offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and developments of the Bible
Documents the history of the bible’s reception in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Other Religions, Philosophy, Literature, Visual Arts, Music, Film
Date of publication: 2009 – 2018
Online first

19. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

20. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

21. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

22. Key Databases – Old Germanic History
Germanische Altertumskunde Online
The new database Germanische Altertumskunde Online (GAO) provides a unique research medium representing the current state of knowledge of Old Germanic History,
Germanische Altertumskunde Online (GAO) includes Germanic and Northern European cultural history from the subject areas of history, archeology, art history, legal history, ethnology and religious studies.

27. IBZ Online – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in
the Humanities and Social Sciences
Published since 1896
International and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.
Contains over 2,956,240 journal articles from about 11,381 journals.
Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually
Updated monthly
Language: Multilingual
User Interface: German / English
Updated monthly
Annual online subscription price € 3,399.00

28. Nietzsche Online

29. Nietzsche Online
The database Nietzsche Online provides researchers and readers complete online access to the editions, interpretations and reference works on one of the most important philosophers.
Users thus obtain access to a comprehensive database containing the research results of the last forty years.
Apart from the authoritative editions of the works (KGW) and the letters (KGB), the database Nietzsche Online contains all De Gruyter publications on Nietzsche.

30. Zoology Online

31. Zoology Online
Covering nearly 100 years of zoological research, the Handbook of Zoology represents a vast store of knowledge. But with the speed of scientific discovery in the past decades, a new format is required - online.
Zoologie Online, now available, is a database which can be easily searched and rapidly updated to reflect the current state of phylogenetic knowledge.

35. Key Databases – General Reference
Yearbook of International Organizations Online
Edited by Union of International Associations
Most comprehensive compendium of international organizations fully searchable via the Internet
Over 61,800 profiles of organizations with current contact details
Biography profiles of key figures in International Organizations
Useful analyses & statistics, graphic presentation of networks of international organizations and their relations
Integration via hyperlinks into the set of other UIA databases
Languages: English
User interface: English
Updated monthly
Annual subscription price: € 2,049.00