November 3, 2021 – De Gruyter is pleased to announce its global strategic partnership in eBook distribution with Central European University Press (CEUP). De Gruyter will host and distribute the press’s entire publishing portfolio through degruyter.com, close to 500 frontlist, backlist and archive titles. Around 100 previously unavailable archive titles will be digitized as eBooks by De Gruyter.
CEUP was founded in 1993 and is known for its thought-provoking books on communism and the history, politics, culture and economy of central and eastern Europe. The press is committed to publishing works that analyze the transition to democracy in the region and offers a local perspective on some of the global issues of today. Its growing fields of interest also include subjects such as gender and Romani studies. The Central European University campus relocated from Budapest to Vienna in 2018 after coming under pressure from the Hungarian government and the Press now maintains a presence across both sites.
This partnership brings together De Gruyter’s proven eBook distribution strategy with CEUP’s innovative approach to open access publishing. CEUP will join 18 other university presses in De Gruyter’s University Press Library, an eBook acquisition model that is focused on the complete digital output from publisher partners at the collection level, with no DRM and no multi-user access restrictions.
“We are proud to partner with a press that engages in new initiatives,” says Steve Fallon, Vice President of Americas and Strategic Partnerships, De Gruyter. “Adding CEUP to our University Press Library strengthens our History and Political Science portfolio by including content on the history of communism and dictatorship. We are privileged to offer CEUP worldwide visibility and distribution of content in line with De Gruyter’s values and mission. More exciting things are to come, and we are beyond thrilled to celebrate this much-awaited partnership.”
“Our partnership with De Gruyter will bring a distinct offer of the complete CEUP collection of almost 500 titles into the market, including recently digitized titles of historical importance that were previously unavailable as eBooks,” says Emily Poznanski, Director of Central European University Press. “CEUP is committed to moving its monograph frontlist into equitable open access with a dedicated group of partners through Opening the Future. As a small press with a large mission, we need to diversify our revenue streams during the transition to open access, and De Gruyter’s University Press Library enables this shift.”
De Gruyter publishes first-class scholarship and has done so for more than 270 years. An international, independent publisher headquartered in Berlin — and with further offices in Boston, Beijing, Basel, Vienna, Warsaw and Munich — it publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 900 journals in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law. The publishing house also offers a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books. The group includes the imprints De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkhäuser, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Saur, Düsseldorf University Press, Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) and Jovis Verlag, as well as the publishing services provider Sciendo. For more information, visit: www.degruyter.com
Contact Dr. Pablo Dominguez Andersen, Director Communications | Tel: +49 30 260 05 424 | pablo.dominguez@degruyter.com | www.degruyter.com
Central European University Press is uniquely positioned between east and west and has established itself as a leader in the history of communism and the transitions to democracy. It is widely seen as the leading English language university press dedicated to research connected to and coming out of Central and Eastern Europe with a distinctive regional flavor. Reflecting the intellectual strengths and values of its parent institution, since 1993 the CEUP has published books by authors from around the world in a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences, including political philosophy and practices of open society, history, Jewish studies, economics, medieval studies, literature, legal studies, nationalism, human rights, political science, international relations, higher education policy, gender studies, media studies, and art history. For more information, visit: ceupress.com/
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