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fr Peter Lang is proud to announce The American Journalist in the Digital Age: A Half-Century Perspective by Lars Willnat, David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit was granted a Sigma Delta Chi Award 2017. This award was given from the Society of Professional Journalists, the largest and oldest association of U.S. journalists which has honored exceptional contributions to professional journalism in various categories since 1932. The work, published by Peter Lang in 2017 as volume 17 of its Mass Communication and Journalism series, documents the changes that have occurred in U.S. journalism in the past decade, due to the rise of new communication technologies and social media. It was the only book distinguished with a Sigma Delta Chi Award 2017 in the ’Research about Journalism’ category.
Peter Lang series Women in German Literature, edited by Prof. Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly at the University of Oxford, is expanding its remit to broadly cover German cultural production and to now include studies relating to gender and sexuality. The series first launched in 1998 offering monographs and edited collections in German and English on women’s issues in German literature. As of volume 21, the series will continue under the new title Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture. Its broadened focus will foreground excellent research by scholars working in Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Sexuality Studies within a German context, thereby expanding on and complementing the existing volumes in the series.
23 editors and senior management representatives from Renmin University Press, East China University of Science & Technology Press, Peking University Press, Beijing Normal University Press and Guangdong Economy Publishing House gathered in Oxford on April 6 as part of a three-day study tour organized by Renmin University Press and Ian Taylor Associates Ltd. The group discussed trends in international publishing, book and rights sales in international markets and opportunities for cooperation with Adam Gardner (Peter Lang Group Commercial Director) and Na Li (Peter Lang Commissioning Editor China). Peter Lang represented the publishing sector within the programme, which included training, practical sessions and exchange of experiences and opinions at an international level.
Peter Lang has signed an agreement with Jisc, the UK’s higher education and skills sectors’ organization for digital services and solutions, to make Peter Lang’s e-book collections available for purchase through the agreements Jisc has negotiated for its members. The partnership provides universities and colleges in the United Kingdom with access to Peter Lang’s entire collection of 10,000+ DRM-free e-books by registering interest via the Jisc Collections platform at https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/index/2815.
Histoire, Forme et Sens en Littérature. La Belgique francophone – Tome 2 : L’Ébranlement (1914–1944) by Marc Quaghebeur has been selected as one of four titles nominated for the 2018 prize of the Académie des littératures 1900-1950. The prestigious award is granted annually to an outstanding work on literature from the first half of the twentieth century in French or French translation. The nominated title is the second volume of a collection of books on Belgian literary texts from the 20th century and was published by Peter Lang in 2017. Marc Quaghebeur is director of the Archives and Museum of Literature in Brussels, chairman of the Association européenne des Études francophones and editor of the Peter Lang series Documents pour l’Histoire des Francophonies.
Effective immediately, Peter Lang is featured in the SHERPA/RoMEO database, a suite of free scholarly communication resources where authors and funders can research the self-archiving and open access policies of publishers. Besides listing all Peter Lang’s serials and journals, the database provides information on Peter Lang’s general repository policy. The SHERPA/FACT tool allows researchers to see if serials or journals in which they wish to publish their works comply with their funder’s requirements for open access research. Peter Lang is classified as a RoMEO yellow publisher (allowing authors to self-archive a pre-print publisher’s version/PDF) but is open to comply with different funder policies upon request.
As part of Peter Lang’s ongoing commitment to Open Access in academic publishing, the publisher will transition eleven of its subscription-based scholarly journals to full open access. Free online access to articles from these journals will be available on the new Open Access platform IngentaOpen, starting with each journal’s first issue of 2018. All content will continue to undergo a robust peer review process. A liberal CC-BY license will be applied to published articles, unless otherwise requested by authors.
Prof. Dr. Wei Liu has joined Peter Lang as new co-editor of its Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten. The series, previously edited by Xiuli Jin, has published studies on the translation, mediation and reception of German-language literature in China and Chinese literature in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Under the new joint editorship of Xiuli Jin and Wei Liu, the series will change its name to Europäische Kulturen in China und chinesische Kultur in Europa. Übersetzung – Vermittlung – Rezeption / European Cultures in China and Chinese Culture in Europe. Translation – Communication – Reception. It will also broaden its focus to include English, Romance and Slavonic Languages & Literature, History and Sociology.
Prof. Liu studied German philology at the University of Tübingen and earned his doctorate at the University of Salzburg. He is deputy dean of the College of Foreign Languages and Literature at Fudan University, Shanghai and he is a Professor for German Literature.
Peter Lang will host a Society for Scholarly Publishing Regional Event at the Peter Lang Berlin offices examining how to increase the discoverability of Open Access books for researchers. How do OA books get discovered? Through which channels? How can we make sure that they are living up to their full potential? How can we work better with different stakeholders to ensure the maximum visibility for OA books? What changes in workflows are needed? A panel of experts: Agata Morka (Springer Nature), Max Mosterd (Knowledge Unlatched), Benedikt Fecher (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) and Prof. Michael Seadle (Humboldt University), will discuss these and other questions on 9 March 2018 (6-8 pm). For more information and to register, visit www.sspnet.org.
Peter Lang has signed an agreement with Yewno, Inc., a leading provider of AI-driven knowledge discovery solutions. Under the agreement’s terms, all digitized content from Peter Lang’s English and German language books and journals is now discoverable on the Yewno Discover platform. The tool uses computational semantics, graph theory, and machine learning to extract concepts from scholarly publications and to displays search results in a graphical interface that displays the interrelationships between concepts. Used by universities and libraries worldwide, it allows researchers and learners to easily and intuitively explore a visual set of connections across multiple concepts, even in unfamiliar interdisciplinary fields. By partnering with Yewno, Peter Lang supports researchers in their content discovery and opens new channels through which knowledge can be found.