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> For immediate release. > > De Gruyter acquires Versita and becomes third-biggest international Open > Access publisher > > Berlin, January 9, 2012 > > De Gruyter, the Berlin-based academic publishing company, is acquiring the > publisher Versita. As a service provider to academic organizations and > bodies, Versita publishes over 230 journals on Open Access basis, i.e. > outside the traditional subscription model. With this acquisition De Gruyter > is substantially increasing its presence in an important future market of > academic publishing. The complete staff of Versita is being retained in this > take-over. > > ?The purchase of Versita is a logical continuation of our publishing strategy > of recent years, which involves giving both our authors and our customers an > optimum range of publishing options?, says Dr. Sven Fund, the Managing > Director of De Gruyter. ?For us, the most important issue is that our > publications have high-quality content, and not how they are financed.? > > As of 2012 De Gruyter will be merging the newly acquired Open Access journals > with its traditional subscription-based and freely sold content on one > electronic platform, thus providing researchers with an outstanding service: > users will have a powerful search interface for searching all academic > articles from journals, books and databanks in which the articles have been > published, independently of the various business models. > > ?For some time now, Open Access has been an important element of academic > publishing. With the integration of all Versita content under a joint > publishing administration on the new De Gruyter platform, we are now > realizing the principle in our program,? continues Fund. > > In the future, De Gruyter?s Open Access activities will be managed by Jacek > Ciesielski as Vice President Open Access. Ciesielski founded Versita in 2001 > and has been expanding the enterprise ever since. ?Now that we have joined > forces with De Gruyter, I look forward to further developing and > internationalizing my activities together with De Gruyter?, comments > Ciesielski. > > > Contact: > Ulrike Lippe > Manager Public Relations > Phone +49(0)30-260 05 153 > ulrike.lippe at degruyter.com > > > De Gruyter: The independent academic publishing house De Gruyter can look > back on a history spanning over 260 years. The publishing group with > headquarters in Berlin and Boston annually publishes over 800 new titles in > the humanities, medicine, science and law and more than 230 journals and > digital media. http://www.degruyter.com/ > > > Versita publishes about 250 own and third-party scholarly journals across > many disciplines. Its journal portfolio takes in 25 subscription-based > journals, including a group of Central European Journals in 8 disciplines. > Versita also publishes over 230 society journals, which are available through > Versita Open (www.versitaopen.com), one of the largest Open Access platforms > in the world. The company was established in 2001 by Jacek Ciesielski. > http://www.versita.com/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120109/497ecfab/attachment.html
