2 May 2019
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 items from the De Gruyter Book Archive (DGBA). Over the space of ten months, 27 titles per month will be made available to anyone who might be interested.
The DGBA project seeks to digitise the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries. The items that are being made available include mostly German-language titles in theology, philosophy and medicine such as Traumaticismus und Infection edited by the medical pioneer Rudolf Virchow, the correspondence between theologians Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Gustav Brinckmann, and Gottfried Wilhelm Fink’s Häusliche Andachten. These titles can be found on the DGBA website.
The DGBA project, begun in 2018, will be completed in 2020. At that point – after three years of digitising activity – 50,000 additional titles will be accessible to researchers around the world.