Happy International Women's Day! From medieval strategists to pioneering architects, women have always made their mark on society. This
#WomensHistoryMonth
, we're honoring them with a special online collection spanning the arts, humanities and sciences:
Ab 2023 digitalisieren wir das Bucharchiv des Akademie Verlags, des größten Wissenschaftsverlags der ehemaligen DDR. Wir danken der
@bbaw_de
für die Schenkung von über 20.000 Titeln. Eine wissenschaftliche Goldmine wird für Forschung und Öffentlichkeit jetzt digital verfügbar.
We are excited to announce that De Gruyter and Brill have reached an agreement to join forces and form De Gruyter Brill, the leading academic publisher in the
#Humanities
- learn more in our joint press release:
Completely unknown until the 1990s, the elusive and endangered Snub Nosed monkey lives in one of the most extreme environments of any non-human primate. Researchers have now followed the monkey's trail. Discover more here
#EndangeredSpecies
De Gruyter ist ein weltoffener Verlag. Wir stehen, auch aus historischer Verantwortung, zusammen für eine demokratische und plurale Gesellschaft und gegen jeden Rassismus.
#NieWiederIstJetzt
#LauteWissenschaft
You've finished your dissertation and now you want to turn it into a book that will captivate readers? In this week’s
#AskTheEditor
, Acquisitions Editor Rabea Rittgerodt provides useful tips for early career researchers on how to improve their writing style!
🤝 More exciting news! We're partnering with
@ResearchGate
, the professional network for researchers, to make all open-access content from 437 of our journals accessible on their platform. This will make a whopping 114,000 articles available to ResearchGate's 20 million users.
What is a
#museum
? It's a matter of hot debate as the museum community gathers for a major conference in Prague this weekend. Do museums simply exhibit our world heritage? Or should they contribute to social justice, global equality and planetary well-being?
#ICOMPrague2022
🧵1/7
On this day in 1862, our namesake Walter de Gruyter was born in Duisburg. The son of a Dutch-born coal merchant, he earned his PhD in German with a dissertation on the medieval poetry form of "Tagelieder," or "dawn songs," in which two star-crossed lovers part ways at daybreak.
📚 Our new eBound foundation's first round of funding will go towards the digitization of a collection of
#Syriac
and Eastern Christian books and manuscripts belonging to
@george_kiraz
, editor-in-chief of
@gorgiaspress
and senior research associate at
@the_IAS
, Princeton. 1/5
Jahrhundertelang wurden Frauen in der Geschichtsschreibung ignoriert oder systematisch unsichtbar gemacht. Doch mit „HerStory“ bringt
@JasminLoerchner
die Geschichten der Wegbereiterinnen von gestern wieder ans Licht.
@Herstory_pod
#frauengeschichte
✏️ So you've written an academic book and want to land a publisher? As part of our toolkit for authors and editors, publishing consultant
@lportwoodstacer
("The Book Proposal Book,"
@PrincetonUPress
) explains how to craft the perfect proposal.
🔎
📚 For World Digital Preservation Day, we're giving you a peek into our archives. Dating back to 1749, our collection of over 53,000 books has been painstakingly digitized and is now being reshelved by our librarian Florian Hofbauer.
#WDPD2022
Learn more:
We're very proud to announce a new partnership with the
@Arendt_Center
at
@BardCollege
, New York. The collaboration will include a series of annual lectures—the De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking—and a joint book series devoted to Hannah Arendt's legacy.
Die Tagebücher und das Fotoalbum von Lothar von Trota wurden nun erstmals veröffentlicht und geben bisher nicht erschlossene Einblicke in die deutsche
#Kolonialgeschichte
.
🔗Sie sind hier zu finden:
@dg_history
"From Windhoek to Auschwitz?" interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the 'racial state', and systems of forced labour as points of departure for comparative observation:
@JuergenZimmerer
In June, we celebrate
#Pride2023
! 🏳️🌈 We're proud to join communities from around the globe in promoting awareness for
#LGBTQIA
+ issues.
#DeGruyterPride
kicks off with a specially curated collection of original research. Free access until July 10!
🔗
Auf Twitter protestieren Wissenschaftler*innen gegen prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen an Hochschulen. Doch die Probleme des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems sind größer als
#ichbinhanna
, sagt Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier (
@S_Mittermeier
) in ihrem Meinungsbeitrag!
From Kenneth Clark to Mary Beard, the complete collection of the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts is live on ! With our partners
@PrincetonUPress
, we're thrilled to offer exclusive digital access until July 1st, 2023.
#arthistory
🤝 De Gruyter is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Manchester University Press, which will allow us to host and distribute the complete frontlist and backlist collections of over 2,000
@ManchesterUP
titles.
We want to know! At De Gruyter, we’re driven by curiosity – for research, ideas and the brilliant people behind them. That’s why we’re launching
#AskTheEditor
today. As
@RabeaRi
explains, we want to answer all your burning questions about the wide world of academic publishing.
Our editor Myrto Aspioti has been helping PhD and early-career researchers navigate the world of publishing! Here she is delivering her workshop, "Getting Published" for the
@DAAD_UK_Ireland
Summer School at
@KingsCollegeLon
last week.
The first De Gruyter-
@Arendt_Center
Lecture in Political Thinking kicks off this Thursday at
@BardCollege
. As part of a larger conference on "Judgment, Pluralism and Democracy," Linda Zerilli of
@UChicago
will address "
#HannahArendt
and the Problem of Democratic Persuasion."
We're reinventing ourselves! From tomorrow, De Gruyter Conversations will become De Gruyter Official. You'll still receive updates from our blog, along with the latest news from across our publishing house – on our authors, titles, events, and career opportunities. Stay tuned!
In the US, 250,000 deaths per year are caused by medical error. What causes these errors in the chaos of emergency departments where interruptions are frequent? In their new study, researchers set out to find out why …
#diagnosis
@degruyter_med
🐰 Spring has finally sprung in Berlin. After a snow flurry last week, the fragrance of blossoms and birdsong are in the air, and we can't wait for a good egg hunt.
💐 Happy
#Easter
from everyone at De Gruyter! And to our staff, thanks for making this such a special place!
What's a public historian? Someone who applies history to real-world issues. As experts in the field gather at the International Federation for Public History conference in Berlin, we're proud to sponsor this year's proceedings. Learn more about our portfolio below!
#IFPH2022
“Let everyone pursue their love, uncorrupted and free of prejudice.” On the 100th anniversary of his death, we can’t think of more suitable words to celebrate the life of our namesake, Walter de Gruyter, whose passion for publishing lives on in everything we do at De Gruyter.
👩🔬 Forscherinnen kommen in Print, TV & Radio deutlich seltener zu Wort.
Zum Internationalen Tag der Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft berichtet das Team von „
#Wissenschaftlerinnen
in die Medien“
@bmbfwim
von seiner Mission, genau das zu ändern.
👉
It's the "Sagrada Família" of dictionaries: the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae – the most authoritative scholarly
#Latin
lexicon in the world and still a work in progress after 125 years. Have a look behind the scenes with Dr. Adam Gitner (
@thesaurosaur
)!
For World Digital Preservation Day (
#WDPD2023
) we're taking the opportunity to highlight De Gruyter's digitization of the complete book archive of Akademie Verlag, the largest academic publisher of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). 📸📚
@dpc_chat
@dg_history
🧐 Did you know that we publish the world's most comprehensive
#dictionary
of ancient
#Latin
, the "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae"? Its editors are asking you to choose the first-ever Ancient Latin Word of the Year.
@hypothesesorg
@badw_muenchen
Vote here! 👇
🆕 Es ist so weit: die erste Folge des neuen De Gruyter Podcast WAGNIS WISSEN ist online. Nadine Kreuzahler und Moritz Baßler sprechen über Popliteratur, populären Realismus und Midcult. 🎧 Jetzt reinhören!
✍️ Whether it’s your first book or your fifteenth, there is always room to improve your academic writing! In this week’s
#AskTheEditor
, Acquisitions Editor Myrto Aspioti answers one of the most common questions put to our editorial team.
📣 De Gruyter is using a new
#OpenSource
font in its books and journals! If you didn’t notice, then our project team has done a good job. Learn more about the reasons for this change and how the font was developed in our new blog post.
#Typography
👉
Our
#STEM
author Sebastian Seiffert (
@sci_ffert
) has won one of Germany's highest accolades for university teaching, the Ars Legendi Faculty Award for Mathematics & Natural Sciences, in the category of
#chemistry
. Congratulations!
More at
@stifterverband
:
📚🔍Join us this
#PeerReviewWeek
as we unveil insights by our editors on this year's topic: Peer Review and the
#FutureOfPublishing
🤔What is the peer review process fit for the future? Can we trust AI with a role in it? How do we make it sustainable?
#DeGruyterPRW
@PeerRevWeek
These days, networking at academic conferences happens online as well as offline. Amid fast-moving and jam-packed feeds, how can you get noticed and reach the right audience? Editorial Communications Manager
@sandrakoronkai
has some top tips on how to boost your online presence.
You’ve done the research, you’ve written the book. You’ve even found the perfect publisher to make this dream a reality. But for many writers, the hardest part is yet to come… That’s right, this week on
#AskTheEditor
we’re talking about promoting your book on social media!
Attention authors! 📢 Want to know how to navigate the publishing world and find the best press for your book? Our very own Manuela Gerlof has all the tips and tricks. Don't miss her comprehensive guide in
#FeedingTheElephant
@HNetBookChannel
.
🔗
Last week,
@IdanDershowitz
caused a sensation by arguing that the supposedly forged Shapira Scroll might have been real after all. (Check out the
@nytimes
report by
@jennyschuessler
!) We talked with Idan about the context and implications of his discovery.
We’re pleased to see that the new English translation of
@JuergenZimmerer
's “From Windhoek to Auschwitz?” was reviewed by
@hanskundnani
in this week’s
@TheTLS
:
We also thought it would be a good occasion to mention that this title is fully
#OpenAccess
!🔓
Wow!🥂🥂My "From Windhoek to Auschwitz?" has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. 🙏
@hanskundnani
What else is there to live for...😉
@dg_history
😻 Nothing better than a De Gruyter
#law
book when you need to rest your weary feline head. Thanks to Rhea Nachtigall for the great shot of her purrr-fect paralegal!
🔗 "Fallbuch Asylrecht" (eds. Johanna Mantel,
@nachtigall_rhea
&
@Wasnick_Lars
):
🎮 In this month's book talk, our history editor
@RabeaRi
speaks to
@EstherWrigh_
of
@cardiffuni
. In "Rockstar Games and American History," she examines notions of the Western and noir genres in "Red Dead Redemption" and "L.A. Noire."
📺🎧 Full talk:
Relationships between humans & other animals are multi-faceted, often intimate, and frequently ambivalent. Most of all, they are deeply historical. The surging field of
#AnimalHistory
aims to tell these stories.
@DocRoscher
@BrettMizelle
@Andre_Krebber
🎄 'Tis the season, and to cap off the year, we've put together our favorite
#HolidayReads
for you!
🎁 Even better, we're raffling them off one by one. Enter by liking, retweeting and tagging a friend. Watch this space, starting tomorrow! ✨
🏺 Our author Lara Weiss recently led an excavation in
#Egypt
that uncovered ancient tombs dating back over three millennia. Decorated with ornate reliefs and artwork and statues, they offer fascinating clues to the lives of the area's former inhabitants.
✏️ Toolkit time! Who doesn't struggle with their writing sometimes? Academics are no exception. Help is on hand though. Our editor
@AspiotiMyrto
has gathered her top tips for academic writing in one handy blog post for you!
#AcademicTwitter
#AcWri
🔗
📢 The publishing industry's movers and shakers are due to descend on the Frankfurt
@Book_Fair
next week—and we're thrilled to be part of it again after three years!
🥂 Come join us at our reception on 19 Oct at 5pm at Booth 4.2/H9:
#FBM2022
🚀 Calling all wordsmiths out there, with an understanding of academic mindsets, a way with words and people, and the creative vision to oversee our complex social media landscape.
📅 One-year maternity cover, starting May 1st
📌 Based in Berlin
🌎 Native English, German a plus
🌟 Happy holidays, everyone! Thanks for following us this past year. Cheers to a wonderful holiday season and a sparkling new year! To celebrate, brush up on some festive facts courtesy of our "Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception." 1/2
A gray
#wolf
living a
#dog
's life? 🐺🐶 Learn more about an unlikely group of canid companions living in the mountains of southwestern Bulgaria 👉👉👉
@nywolforg
@Howling4Wolves
One of the world's most influential thinkers was born
#OTD
205 years ago:
#KarlMarx
. Love him or hate him, if you want to truly understand his thought, we've got his definitive and complete works, the Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) edition, for you here:
It's International Open Access Week! 🌐🔓
#OAWeek
is an opportunity to celebrate the principles of shared knowledge. But it also raises the question: how do we find a fair, inclusive and sustainable way to open up scholarship for all?
Introducing
#DG2O
:
Blogging is a great way to show off the real-world applications of your research and engage a broader audience.
Discover our 6 tips & tricks for crafting a compelling piece that will undoubtedly spark a “eureka!” moment for your readers.
🔗
🧐 Whether you’re a scholar of physics, medieval studies or economics – chances are that your friends and family have no clue what you actually do for a living. So, what is the best way to turn your cutting-edge research into a compelling story? Blogging, of course!
For this week's
#AskTheEditor
, our Content Editor Ute Skambraks gives her top tips on what to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript for submission.
If you also have questions about publishing, feel free to post them in the comments or send us a message!
👩🔬 Measuring scientific impact is all about citations? Not anymore!
#Altmetrics
(short for alternative metrics) are increasingly complementing
#bibliometrics
by capturing social media and online mentions.
Learn more from Dirk Tunger of
@fz_juelich
:
It's
#BlackHistoryMonth
, and we'll be amplifying some of our authors' voices and titles in the coming weeks. What better way to start than with Dominique Haensell's "Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism."
Relationships between humans and other animals are multi-faceted, often intimate, and frequently ambivalent. Most of all, they are deeply historical. The surging field of
#animalhistory
aims to tell these stories.
👉👉👉
⚔️ Our
#WomensHistoryMonth
special continues with an interview about the fascinating life and times of Christine de Pizan (1364–c. 1429), a medieval writer and strategist at the court of King Charles VI of France.
#DeGruyterWHM
Controversial terms like critical race theory or gender performativity are often misunderstood. Since they originated in the humanities, Irene Kacandes' new discussion series "Humanities for Humans"
@1014nyc
aims to reclaim & explain them.
Full interview:
Join Us for our Webinar on the latest developments in
#OpenAccessPublishing
We are glad to introduce our speakers Scott Warren, Christina Lembrecht, and Colleen Campbell.
Date: Thursday, 28th September 2023
Time: 2:00pm BST/3:00pm CEST
Register here:
🆕Heute erscheint die zweite Folge unseres Podcasts WAGNIS WISSEN! Gast
@_AnnaSeidel
spricht über Popfeminismus und die Frage, ob feministische Positionen und Mittel des Pop – also Politik und Kommerz – zusammenpassen. 🎧 Jetzt reinhören!
Meet the winners of our 10-year open access anniversary competition! This book by art and design historian Alexandra Chiriac (
@arthistorynomad
) looks at the contributions of the Jewish avant-garde in 1920s and 1930s Romania to the wider modernist movement:
Migratory animals rely on seasonal cues to time their movements. But what happens when these cues are no longer reliable?
Learn more in this new blog post by Dr. Andrew Davis from
@UGAEcology
👇👇👇
#climatechange
#animalmigration
#arctic
Due to popular demand from libraries and authors, we're converting several additional subscription journals to open access via the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. Last year, our portfolio of 11 S2O journals allowed us to publish over 500 articles in immediate gold
#OpenAccess
.
🎄 Deck the halls! We're getting into the festive spirit here in Berlin. Our very own St. Nick, Ivica Masic, has spruced up the courtyard, and next week it's time for our office party. Our staff choir has especially regrouped for the first time since the pandemic. 🎵 Ho, ho, ho!
Es wird kalt: Heute erscheint mein Buch "Kälte-Pop"!
Man sieht es mir zwar nicht an, aber ich bin sehr glücklich (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes) endlich das Ergebnis meiner Forschung in den Händen zu halten.
Ein paar Einblicke in das Phänomen "Kälte-Pop" gibt's hier drunter ⬇️
A great and auspicious beginning to our new partnership with the
@Arendt_Center
at
@BardCollege
! Watch Linda Zerilli's inaugural De Gruyter - Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking:
Thanks to
@Roger_Berkowitz
,
@nm_dunn
& everyone who made it happen!
To all our authors, readers, partners and Twitter-followers: Happy holidays and a prosperous New Year from everyone at our publishing house! 🎄
See you in 2024.
🧀 Some of our UK colleagues have flown in for meetings, and guess what they spotted on last night's restaurant menu? Potato gratin De Gruyter! The waiter insisted De Gruyter was a
#cheese
. Did they mean Gruyère? Or is there a mystery Dutch cheese out there we don't know about?
Mit großer Freude geben wir die
#Zukunftsgestalter
in Bibliotheken 2023 bekannt!
Im Rahmen der
#111BiblioCon
in Hannover wurden gestern Tanja Schleyerbach, Axel Blase, Barbara Glaser und Katja Schultz-Nisi von der Stadtbibliothek Reutlingen für ihr Projekt ausgezeichnet.
📚🌍 Libraries are key players in achieving the UN Sustainability Development Goals (
#SDGs
), says Barbara Lison (
@bagilun56
), President of
@IFLA
.
We talked to her about the 17 goals, actionable steps librarians can take & the importance of advocating.
🔗
🥼 Die
#Physik
gilt als ein seit Jahrhunderten männerdominiertes Fach, doch in der
#DDR
eröffneten sich für Frauen im Forschungsbetrieb neue Möglichkeiten. Die Wende brachte ungeahnte Probleme für ihre Karrieren, wie Heike Amos vom
@Leibniz_IfZ
schreibt:
“Pride Month is a reminder that queer history is everywhere, and that its subjects have always existed.”
New in our
#Pride2023
blog series:
@manwithoutatan
tells the story of Paula C., a transgender woman and sex worker in 1960s London.
🔗
#DeGruyterPride
📚 Diverse reading experiences matter! At De Gruyter, our accessibility working group is dedicated to enhancing eBook
#accessibility
for all, especially those with visual impairments. Learn more about their work on our blog:
#alttext
#publishing
#eBooks
We've got something really special for you today: "Making
#BlackHistory
" by Dominique Haensell, editor-in-chief of
@Missy_Magazine
. Like, retweet or tag a friend by Dec 19, 3pm CET to win a copy! Also available in
#OpenAccess
.
@degruyter_lit
Europe faces multiple crises – an urgent call for new directions in
#EuropeanStudies
. In our webinar on June 14, an expert panel discusses the past, present and future of this interdisciplinary field.
Find out more and register here:
We're pleased to see Doris Sung's "Women of Chinese Modern Art" in such good company – check out
#ArtHerstory
's latest round-up of new books about women artists! 👇