eBooks

eBooks at De Gruyter

De Gruyter offers libraries and vendors excellent titles across 29 subject areas, a deep backlist, and partnerships with prominent publishers. Our Book Archive contains over 50,000 titles spanning our 270-year history, from 1749 until today. Our search options help you find the works you want - and discounts start already for orders of 20 books or more.

Current ebook collections

De Gruyter offers a vast collection of eBooks across a wide range of subjects. Our eBook collections provide access to the latest research and are available to libraries via flexible purchase options.

De Gruyter Book Archive

De Gruyter has digitized its entire backlist, going all the way back to 1749. Discover the treasures of the De Gruyter Book Archive.

Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA)

Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) allows you to make purchase decisions based on usage data - a highly effective way of building your library collection.

Akademie Verlag Book Archive

De Gruyter is digitizing the complete book archive of Akademie Verlag, the largest academic publisher of East Germany (the former GDR). By 2025, more than 15,000 books in the humanities and sciences, some of them out of print, will be available electronically for the first time.

One-click downloads of single chapters or complete ebooks

All titles in PDF and EPUB format

MARC records and COUNTER statistics for all items

De Gruyter introduces simplified eBook pricing for institutions

To make purchasing eBooks easier and more transparent for librarians, De Gruyter is introducing simplified eBook pricing for institutions as of October 15, 2022.

More than 50,000 eBooks published by De Gruyter and available on degruyter.com are now divided into seven categories, with one set price per category. You can find the new standard pricing here on degruyter.com.

By introducing this simplified and more predictable pricing structure, De Gruyter aims to increase transparency by providing fixed prices that customers can rely on and plan with more easily.

You can find out more about the debate surrounding ebook pricing models in Research Information, 'Searching for the right ebook business models.'

“Against a background of volatile print book pricing we believe it is time to move to a future-oriented price structure that offers librarians greater stability and predictability and reflects the benefits eBooks bring to patrons who increasingly expect round-the-clock access to a library’s holdings on and off-campus. Removing the link to print prices enables us to eliminate outdated models such as textbook multipliers, recognizing that for many libraries and users the eBook is the primary format”

Ben Ashcroft, Vice President, Commercial at De Gruyter.

Your Purchasing options

Single titles
Pick-and-choose collections
Subject area collections and special packages
EBA / EBS

More Information for Librarians

Our Publisher Partners

Since launching our Publisher Partner Program in 2012 with Harvard University Press, we have continued to expand the program globally and now have over 20 partners.

University Press Library

The University Press Library is the culmination of a five-year pilot project that addresses the predictability and sustainability problem for university presses while providing a non-restrictive acquisitions business model for academic libraries.

FAQs for Librarians

Want to know how to access your usage reports or update IPs? Find a list of the most frequently asked questions and answers for librarians here.