Academic publishing house De Gruyter is consolidating all OA publications under a new imprint: De Gruyter Open. The publisher Versita, which was acquired by De Gruyter in 2012, will be fully subsumed under the new imprint.
Open Access (OA) is an important and growing aspect of De Gruyter's publishing activities, impacting all subject areas. Last year the De Gruyter Group published more than 15,000 Open Access journal articles.
Open Access publication under the De Gruyter Open imprint is subject to the same peer-review process as traditional journals and books. Publication generally takes place under Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND, although authors and partnering institutions can select licensing forms that are even less restrictive.
In 2014 De Gruyter Open will be expanded beyond Europe to the United States and Asia.
