Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced that it will publish the natural sciences journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (ZfN), starting in 2015. The journal was originally founded in 1946 by Hans Friedrich-Freksa and Alfred Klemm at the Tübingen institutes of the Max Planck Society (formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm Society).
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung will be published both in print and online in three parts – Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Biosciences.
De Gruyter publishes over 1,300 new titles each year in the humanities, medicine, natural sciences, and law, more than 650 journals, and a broad range of digital media. The Group owns the imprints De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkhäuser, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Open, and De Gruyter Saur.