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Our databases comprise of a wide range of digital products, from ahead-of-print published reference works (partly open access) to digital only online resources.

Reference works (e.g., encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks), bibliographies, directories and editions are the pillars of De Gruyter’s diverse database program.

With powerful search features and filters, our platform offers fast and simple access to single titles but also across all databases within specific subject areas.

Reference works and databases at De Gruyter

Find out more about our databases and how you can publish in a digital reference work by visiting our dedicated pages.

Your Digital Product at De Gruyter

De Gruyter publishes highly acclaimed bibliographies, online dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, and digital editions with thousands of entries.

Contribute to our Reference Works

Add your expertise to our comprehensive, high quality reference works.

Database Portals

Our database portals enable users to perform a comprehensive and therefore time-saving search across all database products from a specific subject area.

Databases and Online Reference Works

From the humanities and the natural sciences to medicine and architecture, De Gruyter’s databases and online reference works are full of outstanding resources. Receive access to original sources, text collections, reference works, and bibliographies.

How to publish in our Reference Works

All of our reference works follow the same basic publishing process from writing and submitting an entry, to review, revision and copy editing, and ending with the publication of your entry in one of our databases.

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About De Gruyter

De Gruyter publishes first-class scholarship and has done so for more than 270 years - learn more about our publishing house, our imprints, history, mission and vision here.

Our Vision and Mission

De Gruyter has been a publisher of excellent scholarship since 1749 - and our mission and vision are the foundation of everything we do.

History

Steeped in the history of Berlin, De Gruyter’s roots go back to Frederick the Great and the Königliche Realschule’s bookstore. Learn more about the story behind the publishing house here.