‘Border Crossing «Brothas» Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space’, published by Peter Lang in 2016, has been named a 2017 Critics’ Choice award by the American Educational Studies Association. Each year, a committee of AESA members selects a number of titles it regards as outstanding books that may be of interest to those in educational studies. The Critics’ Choice Award serves to recognize and increase awareness of recent scholarship deemed to be outstanding in its field and of potential interest to members of the Association.

Paul Ian Campbell’s book, Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club, has been shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize. The publication, which won the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize earlier this year, is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. The winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize will be announced at the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) annual conference at the University of Worcester on 1-2 September 2017.

With immediate effect, Peter Lang stores its entire collection of current and future eBooks and eJournals with Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation and electronic archiving service. The partnership acts as an additional safety feature, ensuring that digital content from Peter Lang is preserved for the future. By placing all primary source collections into Portico’s digital preservation service, libraries and their clients have guaranteed access to the digital content they acquire from Peter Lang regardless of ongoing technology changes.

Peter Lang congratulates Jefferson Pooley, for winning the 2017 James W. Carey Media Research Award for his publication “James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University’s Margins” (Peter Lang, 2016). The award is given by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research for works on topics that were central to James W. Carey’s scholarship.

Professor Henry A. Giroux received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) on Tuesday 4 July 2017. Professor Giroux, who was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period, has published several books with Peter Lang, including the bestselling title “Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism”. You can read his commencement speech here.

At the beginning of 2018, the headquarters of Peter Lang GmbH will move from Frankfurt to Berlin. Founded in 1971, the current location in Frankfurt is the oldest office of the Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group. The decision to relocate results from the need for expansion of the existing business premises. Berlin has continued to grow as a publishing centre in recent years, and by relocating, Peter Lang GmbH intends to further expand its close relationship to the German and Eastern European academic community. The publishing house supports academic authors from Germany, Austria, Eastern Europe and Turkey, with its editors in Vienna, Warsaw, Istanbul and other German cities. Editors currently working outside of the Frankfurt office will not be impacted by the move.

Within the framework of a new strategic partnership between Peter Lang and the international book-printing group CPI, all Peter Lang’s front-list titles will be printed at and distributed from the German CPI location in Birkach as of September 2017. Starting in summer 2018, CPI also takes over on-demand production of all Peter Lang backlist titles. To provide fast delivery to individual markets, Peter Lang will also cooperate with regional PoD suppliers such as Hachette Distribution Services in French-speaking markets. These steps eliminate the need for central warehousing and the availability of Peter Lang titles worldwide is significantly improved.

As of May 2017, Ute Maren Schubert assumes responsibility for global media production at Peter Lang. From the group’s Frankfurt office, she heads the 12-strong international production team and is responsible for book and journal production, global print on demand and media-independent data storage.

The online trading platforms for rights and licenses, PubMatch and IPR License, simplify the search for available usage rights and enable automated tendering, negotiation and the conclusion of contracts. The inclusion of titles from the front and backlist of Peter Lang on these platforms is expected to increase searchability and support the growth of the licensing business.

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