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fr 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.
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.
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.
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.