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Academic publishing group Peter Lang has entered a new distribution agreement with NBN International (“NBNi”), a UK-based physical and digital book distribution company that is part of the Ingram Content group. Under its terms, NBNi will handle trade sales and distribution for all Peter Lang books in print, regardless of language, in the UK, British Commonwealth and non-German and French speaking European countries. Peter Lang is committed to the fastest and widest distribution of high-quality academic research and by using NBNi’s extensive distribution network, the publishing group guarantees optimal distribution and visibility of its publications to libraries and booksellers in these regions.
Effective today, 1,235 monographs published by Peter Lang have been made available as Open Access content in the OAPEN library. They cover all areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences with a strong focus on Economics, Finance, Business and Management. The books are available under a Creative Commons license as fully downloadable PDF files at no cost to libraries or users.
The Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collaborative initiative to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe. With a total of 1,235 titles made freely available on the platform, Peter Lang is pleased to become the largest Open Access publisher on OAPEN and to send a strong signal for its continuing dedication to support the broad dissemination of high-quality academic research.
To search for Peter Lang books in the OAPEN library, click here
To learn about Open Access publishing at Peter Lang, see www.peterlangopen.com
The Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition was established in 2011 to recognize outstanding early career researchers for their contribution in different fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Peter Lang has always been committed to supporting those at the beginning of their academic careers and the establishment of this prize is further evidence of this commitment. The publishing group is delighted to announce the winner of the 2018 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Comparative Literature:
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick for her monograph “The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation”
Peter Lang is also pleased to announce the runner-up in the competition:
Marco Malvestio from the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua for his work “The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction”
Both books will be published in the New Comparative Criticism book series, edited by Dr. Florian Mussgnug.
We congratulate the winner and runner-up and also thank the prize committee for the time and effort spent reviewing the submissions!
Expanding its Open Access program, the Peter Lang publishing group launches a new peer reviewed Open Access book series: Images of Disability. Literature, Scenic, Visual, and Virtual Arts / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional. Literatura, artes escénicas, visuales y virtuales aims to shed light on cultural representations of disability and the ways in which disability has been portrayed in aesthetic texts over time. Edited by Prof. Susanne Hartwig (University of Passau, Germany) and Prof. Julio Enrique Checa Puerta (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain), the series comprises edited volumes and monographs in Spanish, English and German. Each publication will be published online in Gold Open Access with a CC BY license and is available through the publishers’ website and the OAPEN library. More information.
For more information on the series, hear Prof. Hartwig speak about its conception and genesis in this video by Peter Lang Open and Latest Thinking: https://lt.org/publication/how-disability-portrayed-contemporary-culture
To submit a proposal for consideration, please contact Dr. Benjamin Kloss, Senior Commissioning Editor at Peter Lang: b.kloss@peterlang.com
Peter Lang celebrates a milestone in its Open Access programm: With almost 1400 peer-reviewed academic books freely available on www.peterlang.com, the group becomes one of the major Open Access book publishers for the Humanities. The books in English, German and other languages cover all areas of HSS with a focus on Economics, Linguistics and Literature Studies. They are available free of charge under different Creative Commons licenses on Peter Lang’s own platform and will soon be released to the OAPEN library.
Jisc Collections has agreed the terms of a license to renew access to Peter Lang’s DRM-free eBook collection of more than 10,000 titles. Starting on January 1, 2019 and for the next three years, the monographs, conference proceedings and reference works are again available for purchase through the agreements JISC has negotiated for its members. The books that include nearly 4,000 English language titles are available as subject collections, mini collections, evidence-based selection collections or standalone titles across all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The initial agreement is still in force until the end of 2018 and to celebrate its continuation, JISC grants an additional 5% discount for any orders placed before 14th December 2018. More information.
Peter Lang has closed an agreement with French media group Hachette Livre to increase the availability of Peter Lang books in Francophone markets. The agreement is scheduled to start in autumn 2018 and covers two main aspects: Through its print on demand service with Lightning Source France, Hachette will print and distribute all new titles released by Peter Lang’s Belgian publishing office P.I.E. Peter Lang SA. Through its Hachette Livre Distribution division, Hachette will distribute Peter Lang’s entire French Language front- and backlist from all five Peter Lang publishing offices in the Francophone countries. Through this agreement, Peter Lang expands significantly its global presence in Francophone markets and ensures optimum international distribution for its growing portfolio of French language titles.
Peter Lang collaborates with Knowledge Unlatched (KU) in a cross-publisher initiative to promote the availability of academic research in Romance Studies. Unter the terms of the agreement, Peter Lang and the publishers Iberoamericana Vervuert and Walter de Gruyter will release a total of 12 titles from their backlists in Open Access. Published in the years 2012-2017, the monographs, collected volumes or dissertations must be written in either French or Spanish and cover the areas of French or Spanish Linguistics or Literary Studies.
In the project’s second phase, starting in 2019, Peter Lang will publish five frontlist titles in Romance Studies per year in Gold Open Access, using the Knowledge Unlatched crowdfunding model to raise the publishing costs through libraries around the world. The titles will be selected by an independent editorial board and must fulfill the above-mentioned criteria. The agreement is scheduled to run for three years, from 2019-2021.
Peter Lang has closed an agreement with Rakuten OverDrive, Inc., a leading full-service digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, music, and streaming video. Under its terms, Peter Lang’s entire eBook collection is made available to OverDrive’s customer base of more than 30,000 libraries and schools in 40+ countries, including public, college and corporate libraries. By partnering with OverDrive and adding them to its list of eBook distributors, Peter Lang opens new channels for its growing eBook collection and helps authors reach new audiences worldwide.