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.

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.

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.

The Oxford and Dublin offices of Peter Lang are delighted to announce the 2017 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in the fields of Irish Studies and Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Proposals are invited from early career scholars in each field for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. The winner of each competition will receive a contract to publish the volume with Peter Lang.

Find out more about the competition here.

Peter Lang has been included in OAPEN’s newly introduced list of book publishers that comply with the open access requirements for books resulting from research funded by OAPEN-partners European Research Council (ERC), Wellcome Trust and Austrian Science Fund (FWF). As official member, Peter Lang can deposit OA publications funded by these partners directly in the OAPEN Library, a platform for full text hosting, deposit, dissemination and preservation of OA books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Listen to Julien Mirvel’s TEDx talk on positive communication. Dr. Mirivel shares a model to “inspire change in personal communication and ignite the co-creation of better social worlds.” His latest book with Peter Lang Publishing The Art of Positive Communication: Theory and Practice delves into this topic and is ideal for courses and research on interpersonal communication.