Academic publisher De Gruyter will give access to all of its scholarly content to 1.000 highly active Wikipedia editors and will allow them to use it for their encyclopedia research. The editors are offered the opportunity to read ebooks, journals and database entries on De Gruyter Online, when they write articles for Wikipedia.
De Gruyter is looking at ways to further enhance the use of scholarly content. It is expected that external links from Wikipedia into De Gruyter content as well as usage will increase from this cooperation.
The Wikipedia Library and De Gruyter have agreed on measures to secure not only its copyright, but also on clear rules of who will get access to De Gruyter’s scholarly content.
