Academic publisher De Gruyter is providing sponsorship for the Directory of Open Access Books to celebrate the launch of the De Gruyter Open Access Book Library on degruyter.com which is intended to draw attention to the growing number and growing importance of open access books. The Library contains all the open access books of De Gruyter and its publishing partners.
According to various industry analysts, approximately 10,000 open access books are currently available. That makes De Gruyter the largest independent publisher of original content open access books. Of the almost 900 titles, approximately half are De Gruyter titles, with the other half being supplied by publishing partners, but available on degruyter.com. In terms of disciplines, over 40 percent of the open access book titles are in history, social sciences and philosophy, ten percent are STM books and the remaining 50 percent distributed among other humanities.
In earlier 2017, De Gruyter announced a reorganisation to better align its peer-reviewed open access activities more closely within Editorial activities.
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