Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books.
The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working worldwide. It encompasses the full range of disciplines in which the Max Planck Society is active, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and applies to both monographs and anthologies.
De Gruyter is providing the Max Planck Society an opportunity to disseminate its content to the broadest possible audience. Alongside free, global access to content at De Gruyter Online, print versions will also be released.
Already in the past several years De Gruyter has successfully published a number of Open Access books in collaboration with a variety of ongoing research projects, including with the Berlin College of Antiquities' Cluster of Excellence project The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations (TOPOI) and with the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
