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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 (see Special:Preferences)
You have an account that is a minimum of 1 year old
You have a minimum of 1000 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

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.

Citation

Editors should always provide original citation information, in addition to linking a De Gruyter resource, as recommended at W:EN:WP:V and W:EN:WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT
Editors should not provide bare links to non-free De Gruyter pages
Editors should note "(subscription required)" in the citation (either through the "|subscription = " variable in start-cite-end templates or start-subscription required-end), where appropriate

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]]|subscription=yes}}</ref>

Raghavan, Srinath (2014). "Indira Gandhi". In Guha, Ramachandra. Makers of Modern Asia. ISBN 9780674735781 – via De Gruyter. (subscription required (help)).

Further participation

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Applications

Please apply at either German or English Wikipedia.