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The Peter Lang Group partners with Zeitfracht Medien GmbH to continue their commitment of worldwide availability and distribution of their list for the DACH market.

“English literature is becoming more and more popular in Germany. As the largest and most modern book wholesaler in Germany, we want to serve local retailers and their customers quickly and reliably in this segment with as many titles as possible. Our print-on-demand process provides a considerable logistical advantage, protects the environment, and reduces transport distances. We already have more than 300,000 English titles from major non-fiction and specialist book publishers in our portfolio.
I am very pleased that with Peter Lang, we have the complete front- and backlist available to the German market, with over 50 percent in English, Spanish, and French language.” Kay Wissendorf, Leiter Print on Demand & Leiter operativer Einkauf 

Peter Lang Group CEO, Arnaud Béglé, states “The Peter Lang Group is thrilled to expand cooperation with Zeitfracht as a trusted business partner for print-on-demand supply of our titles in multiple languages.  The speed to market and excellent quality Zeitfracht provides will surely benefit the Peter Lang total customer experience whether it be bookshop, library, or individual.”

Contact Zeitfracht Medien GmbH to fulfill your order of Peter Lang titles today.

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The Peter Lang Group are excited to be attending the 2023 London Book Fair, with new collaborations onboard and projects underway. With a global leadership team that embodies the services and values of the company, the company continues to work towards meeting the digital needs of the changing world and supporting the dissemination of scholarly work in a sustainable way. The Peter Lang leadership team combines extensive experience across academic publishing with a strategic interest in investments, technology, and business strategy and is well-positioned to meet these goals.

With the recent opening of Peter Lang Pvt Ltd in Chennai, India, Peter Lang continues its commitment to expansion in the East and offering global publishing expertise at a local level. The regional team, Indrani Dutta acquiring in Social Sciences, and Nandini Ganguli for the Humanities list, will work closely with the global finance and sales teams. Together they offer the scholarly community regional distribution of academic content at INR market pricing.

Peter Lang continues to build pace with key projects and internal investments. As well as the recently announced increased title availability with Gardners Books Ltd and Zeitfracht for customer fulfillment in the UK, Germany, and beyond, there are now over 27,000 titles available via PoD and more than 18,000 eBooks.

The 2023 Emerging Scholars Competition recently announced its winners and Peter Lang is thrilled to be able to support exciting new voices in fields including Ethnography, Hispanic & Latin American Studies, and Utopian Studies. For the full list of winners visit: https://www.peterlang.com/winners-announced-for-the-2022-peter-lang-emerging-scholars-competition/

Continuing the focus on Open Access, Peter Lang remains committed to the Greenlight pilot project in collaboration with Jisc. Alongside this, the global sales team is investing in new offerings and packages for academic librarian customers to better support this important channel.

If you are attending the 2023 London Book Fair be sure to stop by the Peter Lang Group exhibit at stand 7E50 with IPG to speak with us about our new ventures.

Truly ‘All In’ as a global team, we’re passionate about the work that we do and the scholarly community and research we support.

Check out our video about Peter Lang at the 2023 London Book Fair and discover what the team is most looking forward to during the event.

Peter Lang is delighted to announce the results of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies:

Winner in Ethnography
Itzel Abril Tinoco González 
Mujeres centroamericanas en el centro de México: 
Trayectorias migratorias, violencias y circulación de cuidados  

Winner in Hispanic & Latin American Studies
Francisco José García Ramos
VIH y sida en el audiovisual español e iberoamericano.
Discursos y representaciones tras el cambio de siglo  

Joint Winners in Literature & Culture
Peyker Özler
Queer(ing) Practices of Women’s Temporalities: 
A Reflection on the Selected Works of Romana Petri, Simona Vinci, Elvira Dones, and Valeria Parrella  

Isabella Villanova
The Politics of Gender in Nigerian and Zimbabwean Women’s Fiction: 
Agencies and Strategies of Resistance  

Winner in Media & Communication
Charlin Nukul
The Third Sex: Beyond a Gender Binary in Thai Culture and Films  

Winner in Utopian Studies
Chiara Xausa
Intersectional World-Making in Climate Fiction:
Toward a Decolonial Ecofeminist Imaginary of the Environmental Crisis  

We congratulate our winners! Thank you to our distinguished editorial board and to all those who took part in the competition.

The Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. Please check back here for announcements about upcoming competitions next year.

For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Peter Lang Oxford. E-mail: l.plapp@peterlang.com.

The Peter Lang Group is pleased to announce increased title availability with Gardners Books Ltd for customer fulfillment in the UK and beyond.
As Gardners, located in Eastbourne, UK is a well-known provider of books and media products in Europe, their recent partnership with CPI UK allows for immediate service to clients locally and globally.
With over 25,000 Peter Lang titles available PoD via CPI UK, customers can now order direct from Gardners to meet market demands swiftly and accurately. 
Feel free to contact the Peter Lang Group (sales@peterlang.com) or Gardners (uksales@gardners.com) with any questions.

The Peter Lang Group is delighted to announce the addition of Peter Lang Pvt Ltd in Chennai. With the opening of this office in December 2022, we are continuing our commitment to the needs of Indian scholars and global expansion in the East.

Our local editorial team consists of Indrani Dutta, acquiring in Social Sciences, and Nandini Ganguli for the Humanities list. The Finance team is supported by Varsha Vijay. Together with the global sales team, the goal is to offer the scholarly community regional distribution of academic content at INR market pricing. The close collaboration between the global and local teams will be a key component as we continue to develop our regional strategy.

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The Peter Lang Group plans its return to the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair after several years restructuring and creating new collaborations. As the world has been in transition since the global pandemic, the Peter Lang Group has been busy reinventing themselves after facing serious challenges in their business. The scholarly publisher, established in 1970, is under the direction of the new global leadership team, with its headquarters based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Peter Lang is working in particular with Newgen KnowledgeWorks Pvt Ltd to help bring their mission of championing research, to realization.

This resolute team, most with a long tenure within the company, is practicing what they preach. They have been quietly making investments in technology, a shift to zero inventory fulfilment and adding key editorial staff. These changes allow the group to provide a set of advanced services to academics, libraries, researchers and students who share their dedication to the dissemination of scholarly work. Peter Lang continues its commitment to global expansion in the East with the opening of a new office in India – Peter Lang Pvt Ltd.
Currently the group is working towards digitizing its rich 40,000+ title backlist in the Humanities and Social Sciences to meet the digital needs of the changing world. The additional agreements with global print on demand distributors such as Ingram Publisher Services, Zeitfracht, Amazon, Books on Demand and Books International will ensure swift availability to the marketplace. The annual Emerging Scholars Competition has ensured Peter Lang’s editorial list includes research from some of the most exciting new scholars in the field. With the recent launch of the Greenlight pilot project in collaboration with Jisc, Peter Lang continues to build its Open Access programme and supports new business models for library collection.

Arnaud Béglé, Group CEO, emphasizes “The Peter Lang Group is focused on publishing unique academic research that empowers a community of dedicated authors to reach eager readers. Our worldwide partnerships coupled with our motivated team’s ‘All in’ attitude guarantee fast delivery of high-quality products on paper and beyond.”

As a top 10 ranking publisher with the Spanish National Research Council, Peter Lang is excited to promote titles in Spanish language, history and culture in honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s special guest, Spain. If you are attending the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair be sure to stop by the Peter Lang Group exhibit with LivreSuisse E15 in Hall 3.1 to speak with us about our new mission and the offerings we have for the academic community.

Please do check out our video about Peter Lang at the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair.

In collaboration with Jisc, Peter Lang has strengthened its commitment to Open Access publishing. A new pilot project called Greenlight offers institutions the opportunity to grow their lists and support Open Access publication in the Humanities and the Sciences.

The Greenlight package includes monographs by UK authors on current topics in medicine, technology, sexuality studies and environmental studies. Participating institutions pay a one-off fee to receive perpetual unlimited multi-user access planned for publication in the course of 2023.

Peter Lang offers more than 2,000 Open Access titles to date and is proud to support the dissemination of academic research to the global community.

To learn more about Greenlight and how to participate, visit https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2832 And to explore all of Peter Lang’s Open Access models, go to https://www.peterlang.com/our-services/open-access/

Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Proposals are invited from emerging scholars in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies and Sexuality Studies for single-author books to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. Proposals may be interdisciplinary or in any of the following disciplines: Cultural Studies, Education, History, Law & Economics, Literature, Media & Communication, or Politics. We also welcome projects representing regional perspectives (e.g. Irish or Swiss).

Proposals should be submitted to editorial@peterlang.com with the subject line ‘Emerging Scholars Competition’ by 15 October 2022 and consist of an abstract (including chapter synopses), a sample chapter (5,000 to 10,000 words in length), a CV, and a statement describing how you are an emerging scholar, in separate Microsoft Word documents. Proposals under review elsewhere should not be submitted.

The winner(s) will be offered a contract for a book with this distinction. Planned manuscripts should be from 60,000 to 100,000 words in length and written in English, French, Spanish or German. Authors will be expected to prepare the manuscript in accordance with the style guidelines provided.

Decisions will be made by 1 December 2022 and the winners will be notified shortly thereafter.

For more information, please contact our competition coordinators:

Dani Green (d.green@peterlang.com) and Laurel Plapp (L.PLAPP@peterlang.com)

Be sure to visit our dedicated page for more information: Emerging Scholars Competition – Peter Lang

On 4 September 2018, “cOAlition S”, an assembly of major European research funding organisations, supported by the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC), has signed an agreement to demand full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications funded by them as of 2020. The agreement that is known as “Plan S” will further accelerate the transition to open access in scientific publishing.

Dr. Laurence Pagacz, Publishing Director at Peter Lang Brussels, and Senior Commissioning Editor Thierry Waser share their views on the implications for academic book publishers in Alternatives Economiques. The full article (in French) is available here: « Comment rendre les publications scientifiques accessibles à tous ? L’édition scientifique face à un nouveau paradigme »