Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Mission & Goals

Headquartered in Berlin since 1749 -- and with offices in Boston, Beijing and across Europe -- family-owned academic publisher De Gruyter uses its global reach to promote, disseminate and advance knowledge. Its portfolio makes De Gruyter one of the world’s largest and most reputable humanities publishers while extending to subject areas like natural and social sciences, economics, technology, mathematics, architecture, design and more. Eight highly respected publishing brands –- De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, De Gruyter Saur, Birkhäuser, Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV), Jovis Verlag and Ubiquity –- are part of De Gruyter. De Gruyter publishes over 120 gold open access journals and is one of the largest independent open access book publishers. Over 150.000 eBooks and 850.000 journal articles make degruyter.com one of the most comprehensive digital platforms for high-class scholarly content in the world.