De Gruyter Brill is expanding its Subscribe to Open program DGB2O with three new titles in 2027. The total number of journals in the program – and expected to switch to open access through collective library support in 2027 – will be at 126.
The three journals joining are HTM / Journal of Heat Treatment and Materials, a key bilingual forum for heat treatment, materials technology, and process engineering, Radiochimica Acta, a renowned international journal covering all chemical aspects of nuclear science and technology, and Historische Anthropologie, a leading German-language journal for transdisciplinary research at the intersection of history, culture, and social practice.
The inclusion of Historische Anthropologie, published by Böhlau, marks the start of the program’s expansion to Brill and its imprints. First piloted at De Gruyter in 2021, DGB2O will play a key role in De Gruyter Brill’s joint, mixed-model open access strategy, with more journals from more Brill imprints expected to join in the coming years.
DGB2O is the world’s largest single-publisher Subscribe to Open program and has established itself as a key initiative for the open access transformation of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Under DGB2O, existing library subscriptions collectively fund open access for all readers and all authors in participating journals, without author-facing publication fees of any kind. The program is particularly successful in the humanities and social sciences, where grant-based funding for APCs is limited and where it has driven open access transformation at a scale that APC-based models have been unable to match. De Gruyter Brill is an active member of the S2O Community of Practice.
Many libraries and consortia support DGB2O as part of DGB Unlimited, De Gruyter Brill’s flagship institutional open access agreement. DGB Unlimited provides institutions with unlimited reading access and unlimited open access publishing rights across the entire De Gruyter Brill journal portfolio – spanning all open access models – under one agreement and one annual fee.
With DGB2O at its heart, DGB Unlimited offers a direct route to supporting open access publishing for all authors at participating institutions, regardless of funding source, career stage, or geographical location. DGB Unlimited agreements (formerly called “All Inclusive” agreements), are already in place with research institutions and consortia worldwide, including the Max Planck Society, SURF in the Netherlands, IrEL in Ireland, JISC in the United Kingdom, BIBSAM in Sweden, among many others.
“Since 1993, Historische Anthropologie has been investigating how people lived and made sense of their world. With the move to open access, our articles will be available wherever historical anthropology is researched, taught and debated, and we look forward to attracting new readers. Publishing with us remains free of charge for authors. This transition is possible thanks to the support from libraries as well as the Austrian Science Fund, which we greatly appreciate,” said Simone Derix, Michaela Fenske and Charlotte Zweynert, Managing Editors of Historische Anthropologie.
“We are excited about growing our successful Subscribe to Open program DGB2O into a fully integrated De Gruyter Brill initiative,” said David Celano, Vice President Global Institutional Sales at De Gruyter Brill. “The expansion underlines the program’s momentum and the confidence and dedication of libraries who continue to support it.“
