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De Gruyter
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Note: Editors can now either apply here, on Meta, or on the German Wikipedia. Please only apply in one place.

De Gruyter is a scholarly publisher specializing in academic literature in a variety of subject areas. They have generously offered the use of 1000 accounts to access all of the electronic resources available through De Gruyter Online, which include ebooks and journals in arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, theology/religion, medicine, mathematics, law and general reference. Their offerings include resources in English, German, and several other languages. All initial accounts will be issued for a full year.

Requirements

  • You have your preferences enabled to receive email messages on English Wikipedia or on your home wiki linked from your application; (see Special:Preferences)
  • You have an account that is a minimum of 6 months old
  • You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia
  • You are active in content generation, research, and/or verification work
  • You do not already have free access to De Gruyter resources through another avenue
  • You have made at least 10 edits to Wikimedia projects in the last month
  • You are not currently blocked from editing Wikipedia

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations

Approved editors may

  • Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content
  • Electronically save portions of restricted content
  • Print out single copies of portions of restricted content
  • Comply with any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the De Gruyter website they are accessing

Approved editors will not

  • Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties
  • Mass scrape or mass download De Gruyter content
  • Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose
  • Process data or datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles
  • Display any copyrighted images or pictures which are in De Gruyter works without permission of De Gruyter

Private and confidential information

  • You will need to have a confirmed email address to participate. By applying, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and De Gruyter. While Wikipedia Library coordinators are volunteers (not employees or contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation or De Gruyter), they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Private and confidential information

Citation

  • Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to De Gruyter resources.
  • Editors should not provide bare links to restricted De Gruyter pages
  • Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate
  • Respect the copyright of De Gruyter, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use
  • Make efforts to provide full citation information in line with the citation examples provided below, or with the examples provided by De Gruyter, where possible
Note that citation styles vary by article, and using every parameter in the example is not a requirement of access; editors can use the style most appropriate to the articles or projects they are working on.

Example

<ref> {{cite book |chapter=Indira Gandhi |title=Makers of Modern Asia |year=2014|editor=Guha, Ramachandra|author=Raghavan, Srinath|url=http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/harvard.9780674735781/harvard.9780674735781.c10/harvard.9780674735781.c10.xml|isbn=9780674735781|publisher=Harvard University Press| via = [[De Gruyter]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
  • Raghavan, Srinath (2014). "Indira Gandhi". In Guha, Ramachandra (ed.). Makers of Modern Asia. ISBN 9780674735781 – via De Gruyter.

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Further participation

You can help The Wikipedia Library share this partnership:

  • Add {{Wikipedia:De Gruyter/Userbox}} to your user boxes. This helps us share our project with other experienced users.
DGThis user has access to De Gruyter Online through The Wikipedia Library.

Applications

What to expect with TWL account processing
Make sure to read this before sending emails to account coordinators inquiring about your account status.

Step 1: Application screening

We will begin screening applicants within a few weeks of opening applications. An account coordinator will check your application against the requirements and make sure you've been actively editing the encyclopedia. If you signed up after the initial call for applicants, process may not happen immediately if accounts are not available.

Step 2: Email and Google Form

After you have received approval for an account, you will be contacted via a Wikipedia email from the account coordinator; be sure to check your spam folder. The email will contain instructions for filling out a Google form with the required information for access.

Step 3: Waiting for partners to activate accounts

There are several steps of subsequent processing, including waiting for a batch of users to submit information, emailing partners, and waiting for partners to activate accounts. Expect this process to take as long as two weeks; we try to make it take less time, but there are a lot of variables at play.

Step 4: Using access

Once the account is activated either the volunteer coordinator or the partner will send you an email with access information. Follow the given instructions, and make sure to actively use your access to improve Wikipedia content!
Interested in helping process accounts or coordinate Wikipedia Library activities? Apply at Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators/Signup to become a volunteer account coordinator.
Stuck or need help? Try our IRC channel #wikipedia-library

Add your username here using #{{user8|USERNAME|Project=code}} (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}

  1. Ubiquity (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Active contributor in a variety of subjects; more than 20,000 edits over the last decade. Approved
  2. The Discoverer (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Approved
  3. Jfhutson (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Approved
  4. Hnaluru (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have been an active user and contributor of Wikipedia for more than a decade and as I started inching towards more content development, I began to look at sources, De Gruyter offers to provide such a platform and I am keen to be a part of this library. My interests include India, Archaeology, History, Science and Politics. Thanks for considering. Hnaluru (talk) 18:11, 1 September 2016 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  5. YohanN7 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am an experienced editor focusing on mathematics and physics, with fair access to journals and textbooks. I used to have access to the De Gruyter's physics and mathematics related material (via Wikipedia), but my privileges seem to have expired (user id still there). I'd be very happy if they could be renewed. YohanN7 (talk) 08:22, 19 October 2016 (UTC) I will look into that. Sorry for the incoveniance.--Saehrimnir (talk) 08:22, 21 December 2016 (UTC) Oh, nothing has gone wrong, it is just that a year (more) has passed. YohanN7 (talk) 08:49, 21 December 2016 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  6. Banjo (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) 59k+ edits and Sysop at gl.wikipedia. Other than admin dutires, I focus my work both in translations/adaptations and improvement of GA/FA to galician wiki and improving already created content and article referencing in galician wiki. Lately focused on history related articles, but I usually work on a vast array of topics. Access to these resources would be really helpful in these tasks and in improving the general referencing of gl.wiki articles. Banjo (talk) 19:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  7. InformationvsInjustice (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Approved
  8. Daniele.tampieri (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have been already granted access to De Gruyter's physics and mathematics related material via Wikipedia Library in 2015, and got renewed by token in 2016. From the first of February my access rights expired, as expected, and I'd like to be granted again the access to such an important and complete resource. Best Regards, Daniele.tampieri (talk) 16:33, 5 March 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  9. DR (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Same for me. Granted 2015, renewed 2016, expired now. According to de:Wikipedia Diskussion:De Gruyter#Verlängerung des Zuganges it shoud be a general problem. --DR (talk) 12:24, 13 March 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  10. ca$e (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) My token expired. Unfortunately, on DE.WP the process seems to be delayed, thus my application here. I am mostly active on DE.WP in areas of philosophy and religious studies with >40k edits. Thanks in advance, Ca$e (talk) 08:38, 20 March 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  11. Kober (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Since 2004, I have made nearly 40,000 edits on English Wikipedia and created more than 1,400 new articles, mostly pertaining to geography, culture, and history of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. The titles offered by De Gruyter such as this and this are on my top 10 "most wanted" list.--KoberTalk 20:03, 9 April 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  12. Froaringus (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) As others, I was granted access in 2015 and was renewed in 2016. While responsibilities don't let me be as active as I was in the past, I would certainly like to be granted access again. Thanks in advance.--Froaringus (talk) 19:26, 7 May 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  13. Eperoton (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I'm an active editor working primarily in the area of Islamic studies. The De Gruyter subscription has been useful and it has expired. I'd like to renew it. Thanks. Eperoton (talk) 01:10, 16 June 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  14. Jfblanc (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I'm an active editor working primarily in the area of history and romance linguistics (Occitania & Occitan, Occitan, French, English wikipedias). My De Gruyter subscription hasexpired. I would like to renew it. Thanks in advance. --— J. F. B. (me´n parlar) 09:50, 31 August 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  15. Zunkir (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Active editor on French Wikipedia, writing mostly about Ancient History. De Gruyter offers a lot of articles relating to this period. Thanks. Zunkir (talk) 21:43, 8 October 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  16. Justlettersandnumbers (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I previously had access to this and found it useful. I've hesitated to ask for renewal because I thought my use of it had not been very extensive. Now I see that there are plenty of accounts, so I would like to ask for one. Thank you to all who have helped to make this possible! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  17. KarlV (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) This would facilitate the many times I have to check literature in German DE to verify the information in historical articles and validate the correctness! Approved
  18. Seraphim System (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) This database has some excellent theology resources that would help me improve Christianity related articles Seraphim System (talk) 14:07, 30 December 2017 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  19. Iselilja (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I edit in a variety of humanities/society articles and know this base has a lot of valuable sources. I had a De Gruyter subscription previously, and unfortunately cut back on editing soon after that, but now I am back editing and I really miss access to more sources. Iselilja (talk) 19:17, 4 February 2018 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  20. Gazal world (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am a regular contributor on Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange. This access will help me to perform well on WP:RX. It also help me in citation and in cross verification. Thanks.Gazal world (talk) 19:48, 16 July 2018 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  21. Dmartyn80 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am main author of 73 feautered articles, include 15 this year. --Dmartyn80 (talk) 15:06, 18 December 2018 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  22. Kober (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I've been editing Wikipedia since 2004. The De Gruyter database has a lot of quality sources which I would like to use to contribute to the topics of my interest — Georgia, the Caucasus, and Middle East.--KoberTalk 15:58, 27 January 2019 (UTC) Approved[reply]
  23. Winged Blades of Godric (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)-- Taking several articles to GA; esp in the domain of India-Pakistan stuff or terrorism. ∯WBGconverse 05:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC) Approved[reply]
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