Peter Lang is pleased to co-operate with Women in German Studies (WIGS), a scholarly organization for female Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland established in 1988. At the occasion of the WIGS’ 30th anniversary, Peter Lang sponsors the WIGS’ Book Prize 2018 for first books on any topic within German Studies, in either English or German. The prize, which is open to all WIGS members, will be presented by Peter Lang at the annual WIGS conference in November. For details about the prize and how to enter, please click here.

As part of its commitment to support the widest possible dissemination of knowledge, Peter Lang participated in the 2017 program of the library crowdsourcing platform Knowledge Unlatched. All ten monographs that were selected for KU’s list of recommended titles were awarded funding. They will be made available in Open Access in the course of 2018 under a CC BY-NC license without extra charges for the authors. «Mediaevistik», the journal that Peter Lang submitted to the KU Select 2017 journal collection, was also chosen to receive Open Access funding for three consecutive years.

Peter Lang has engaged Quantum Publishing Solutions Ltd as a representative to further broaden its distribution in the UK and Irish markets. Quantum will represent the group’s entire list of print publications, including non-English language content, to bookshops, libraries and other channels in the area.

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Clare Stainthorp (‘Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet’), Maria Morelli (‘Queer(ing) Gender in Contemporary Italian Women’s Writing: Maraini, Sapienza, Morante’), Nina Valbousquet (‘Rome, Zion, and the Fasces: Italian Catholics and Antisemitism in Europe 1918–1946’) and Mercedes del Campo (‘Alternative Ulsters: Troubles Short Fiction by Women Writers, 1968–1998’) are the winners of the 2017 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition. Their outstanding works in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Modern Italian Studies and Irish Studies, respectively, will be published by Peter Lang between 2018 and 2019. Peter Lang has awarded the prize annually since 2011 to postgraduate students working in fields across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The National Communication Association NCA has honoured Volunteering and Communication – Volume 2 with its 2017 Distinguished Edited Book Award. Published by Peter Lang, the title is the second volume of a two-volume work edited by Michael W. Kramer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, Laurie K. Lewis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Rutgers University, and Loril M. Gossett, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to this, the work’s first volume Volunteering and Communication: Studies from Multiple Contexts, received the Distinguished Edited Book Award in 2014.

Peter Lang announces its participation in the Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC) Republication Service. By using this service, rights acquisition professionals can quickly secure print and digital permissions from hundreds of participating rights holders in a single transaction. The Peter Lang Group will enlist all its titles that were published in 2002 and going forward. Publishers, universities and others interested in securing permissions to republish this content in new works can access the platform at www.copyright.com to search for individual publications, quickly check available rights, review the terms and conditions, and select and pay for the rights they need.

Edited by Graeme Davis and David Jacques from the University of Buckingham, ‘Studies in the British Mesolithic and Neolithic’ is a new series published by Peter Lang Oxford. It takes its inspiration from the editor’s excavations at Blick Mead in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Books published in the series present the results of fieldwork and excavation as well as works of interpretation from all perspectives on the British Neolithic revolution. The series’ first volume ‘Blick Mead: Exploring the ‘first place’ in the Stonehenge landscape’ will be published in January 2018.

Peter Lang and ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics have completed an Open Access agreement to make almost 600 titles from Peter Lang’s Economics program freely accessible to scholars worldwide. The titles will be available internationally via a CC-BY license from Spring 2018, on www.peterlang.com, ZBW’s platform EconStor, the OAPEN library, as well as other Open Access platforms. The agreement signals Peter Lang’s ongoing commitment to supporting Open Access publication models.

Peter Lang has signed an agreement with Book Network Int’l Limited (NBNi) on the distribution of all of its eBooks and metadata to major international eBook retailers and discovery websites. Among others, this means that Peter Lang eBooks can be bought from the Amazon eBook store Kindle. Through this agreement, Peter Lang significantly accelerates and improves the availability of its growing eBook-collection (9,000+ titles) to end users worldwide.

The European Society for the Study of English ((ESSE) has honoured “Journeys in the Sun: Travel Literature and Desire in Balearic Islands (1903-1939)” by Dr. Eduard Moyà Antón with the 2018 ESSA book award in cultural and area studies, category B. The €1,500 prize is granted each year to a junior scholar for a first research book published in English. In its statement, the jury describes the work as “a brilliant comparative and cultural research project which rereads the ‘south’ and the concept of ‘travelling south’ in search of identity”. The book was published by Peter Lang in 2017 in co-production with Edicions UIB, the publishing house of the Universitat de les Illes Balears. More information on the award: http://essenglish.org/esse-book-awards-for-2018/