Independent academic publisher De Gruyter has reorganised the management of its open access business by integrating peer-reviewed open access activities more closely within Editorial activities. A separate business unit is being created to offer open access publishing services for third parties.
The separate business unit will be managed by Jacek Ciesielski, who has been named Vice President, Publishing Services, De Gruyter, and who will focus his talents and energy on building up the service for third-party content for which De Gruyter does not provide or organise peer review.
Mr. Ciesielski is the founder of Versita, the open access publisher that De Gruyter purchased in 2012 and renamed De Gruyter Open. He was instrumental not only in delivering impressive growth for the OA business, but also for promoting open access within De Gruyter more generally.
Dr. Anke Beck, Managing Director, De Gruyter, who manages the Editorial operations of the company, will take on the additional responsibility for the open access team that currently includes 17 managing editors publishing 17 mega journals and 40 micro journals and a large number of open access books.
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