Announcement

De Gruyter presents new open access pricing model to prevent “double dipping”

Berlin, 8 October 2015

De Gruyter is introducing a new pricing model that prevents “double dipping” with open access publications. Double dipping is when publishers are paid twice for articles in hybrid journals, on the one hand through charging for the open access publication itself and, on the other hand, through the journal subscription price.

Jacek Ciesielski, Vice President Open Access at De Gruyter, says: “Double dipping was a weak point in the publication process for open access. The price reductions that we are introducing at De Gruyter from 2016 will enable us to eradicate these weak points, offer our customers fair prices and thereby create greater acceptance for open access publications.”

If 5 % or more of the articles published in one of De Gruyter’s subscription journals are open access articles, the subscription price for the journal will be proportionally reduced.

As part of consortium agreements, De Gruyter also offers to offset APCs (article processing charges) from the subscription price. Both reductions apply to the following year in accordance with the number of issues and required expenditure for the previous volume.

Contact

Ulrike Lippe

Public Relations Manager

Telephone: +49 (0)30-260 05 153

ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com

About De Gruyter: The independent academic publisher De Gruyter can look back at an over 260-year history. Headquartered in Berlin, De Gruyter publishes over 1,300 new titles each year in the humanities, medicine, natural sciences, and law, more than 750 journals, and a broad range of digital media. The De Gruyter Group owns the imprints De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkhäuser, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Open, and De Gruyter Saur. http://www.degruyter.com/