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De Gruyter ‘changes entire business’ with 67 Bricks digital upgrade


De Gruyter has completed a digital transformation that it says has changed the 270-year-old publisher’s entire business. The company has announced the launch of degruyter.com, a digital research platform built by software development consultancy 67 Bricks. Using cloud technology, the platform aims to provide researchers around the world with fast, stable and secure access to more than 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles from De Gruyter, its imprints and publisher partners. Degruyter.com went live on 1 February


after user testing in close co-operation with leading academic libraries and institutions. 67 Bricks says the platform enables the publisher to upgrade and innovate its digital services quickly and responsively. User benefits include faster page load times, enhanced website uptime, maximised security and an improved overall experience, the company says. The platform’s development and launch form part of the publishing house’s strategic decision to invest heavily in its digital infrastructure and


ramp up in-house digital expertise. Carsten Buhr, managing director at De


Gruyter, said: ‘The new degruyter.com is an important milestone in our 270-year history of serving academic communities and making knowledge accessible – and a big step forward in our digital transformation.’ Managing director of 67 Bricks, Sam Herbert, said: ‘These are uncertain


STM reasserts the importance of research data


The international publishers’ organisation STM has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting and supporting the wider sharing of research data with the establishment of a permanent research data programme. At the 16th Academic Publishing in Europe Conference (APE) in January, STM’s director of research integrity Joris van Rossum explained how the programme will emphasise how research data is key to advancing Open Science and research, while highlighting how the improved sharing of data promotes transparency, reproducibility and leads to additional opportunities for scientific discovery and collaboration. STM highlighted how publishers connect researchers, their research


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and the wider world, and how they innovate to add value to an increasingly digital and interconnected environment. In doing so, they have created vital data infrastructure and founded programmes that assist researchers to share, cite, and link their data with all forms of research output. The continued development of these initiatives will play a vital role in making science more transparent and improving the reproducibility of research, as well as having the potential to be a driving force for scientific discovery, he said. The research data


programme follows a yearlong Research Data Year in 2020, with STM working alongside publishers and partners to boost the effective sharing of research data. Over 12 months the programme tracked that


the average number of journals with data policies across participating publishers went up 80 per cent (from 29 to 52 per cent) while the number of articles that contained data availability statements (DASs) more than doubled, from 7 to 15 per cent. STM says it is aiming to


continue to build on these foundations over 2021 and beyond by exploring how research data sharing can positively impact the wider scholarly ecosystem – from funders and research institutes, to data repositories, data services and wider international collaborations (such as the European Open Science Cloud). STM’s new research data function will also seek to advance progress on artificial intelligence and how data can


be made ‘AI-ready’, as well as widening support for both open science and FAIR data principles.


Speaking of the


establishment of the new research data division, Ian Moss, STM’s CEO, said: ‘Publishers have held a long-standing commitment to sharing data and STM is continually expanding our efforts to ensure that the wider sharing of research data, the adoption of leading-edge tools and increasing transparency continues.


‘I am delighted that Joris will be heading up our new research data programme and leading the further development of community standards and principles, around which the wider sharing of research data can be best achieved.’


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times in publishing and forward-thinking companies like De Gruyter are looking really hard at how the world is changing and what they do. ‘Digital transformation is a world away


from just putting books and journals online, and requires some radical mindset shifts. De Gruyter has shown great nerve and commitment and we are delighted to be partnering with them on their journey.’


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