Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, and Versita will be publishing all Open Access content under the uniform application of Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, effective immediately. This means that publications may now be copied, disseminated, and otherwise made public by users under the conditions that the name of the author/copyright owner must be mentioned in the manner requested by the author/copyright owner; the publication and its content may not be used in its Open Access format for commercial purposes; and the publication and its content may not be edited, modified, or otherwise changed.
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND is already the basis for the publishing contract concluded just days ago between De Gruyter and the Max Planck Society for the publication of Open Access books.
In 2012 De Gruyter and Versita published over 10,000 Open Access articles in some 300 journals. Since 2009 a large number of books and book chapters have also been published under the Open Access standard. In addition to publication in dedicated Open Access journals, De Gruyter and Versita offer OA publication in established subscription journals (so-called Hybrid Open Access).
