Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced the acquisition of publisher Versita. As a service provider to academic organisations and bodies, Versita publishes over 230 journals on Open Access basis. With this acquisition De Gruyter seeks to increase its presence in the academic publishing market. The complete staff of Versita is being retained in this take-over.
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. Users will now 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.
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.
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