PRESS RELEASE
De
Gruyter Signs 10,000 Title eBook Agreement with YBP Library
Services
– Agreement
to add academic ebook titles to GOBI3 database
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CHARLOTTE,
N.C. – March 4, 2013 - De Gruyter, the international
academic publishing house, announced today that it has
signed an agreement with YBP Library Services (YBP), the
academic division of Baker & Taylor, whereby nearly
10,000 titles from De Gruyter’s eBook program, e-dition,
will be made available for purchase through GOBI3
(Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP’s acquisition
and collection management interface. De Gruyter publishes
more than 850 new titles annually in medicine, the
humanities, natural sciences and law, in addition to more
than 600 journals and digital media publications.
“We
are delighted to be taking this key step with YBP in making
De Gruyter content and that of our partner publishers easily
accessible to the library market in America and
internationally. As the market for electronic content
continues to grow, this capability will become even more
important. We are pleased to partner with YBP for the
benefit of our customers,” said Ben Ashcroft, Director
Global Sales at De Gruyter.
“This
partnership continues our long-term strategic initiative to
provide our customers with the broadest possible access to
leading scholarly content,” said Mark Kendall, Senior Vice
President of Sales and Operations at YBP. “Our collaboration
with De Gruyter offers our academic customers the
combination of De Gruyter’s highly-respected and quality
content and YBP’s value-added services to libraries and
consortia.”
Through
its partnerships with publishers (Böhlau
Verlag, Otto Schmidt Verlag, Detail) and
university presses (Harvard University Press) DeGruyter
offers a backlist of more than 60,000 titles, spanning 260
years of publishing history to academic institutions
worldwide.
Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
Tel. +49 (0)30-260 05 153
ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com
De Gruyter: The
academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on a
history spanning over 260 years. The Berlin-based group of
companies releases over 850 new titles each year in the
fields of medicine, the humanities, natural sciences, and
law, in addition to more than 600 journals and digital media
publications. www.degruyter.com