Our licensing models
What do we offer?
GRIN is Germany’s largest provider of academic texts. Our portfolio spans all academic disciplines, from african studies to veterinary medicine. With over 260,000 texts and 26 years of publishing experience, we offer a wealth of knowledge.
To make this extensive collection easily accessible for educational institutions, libraries, companies, clinics, and care facilities, we provide various volume licensing models tailored to your needs.
Our licenses at one glance
Campus licenses
For students at educational institutions, universities, and libraries, our campus licenses provide access to the full spectrum of GRIN’s knowledge.
Advantages:
Cost Savings
- Volume Discounts: As an educational institution, you can purchase our texts for a large number of users at a reduced price, lowering the cost per user.
- No individual license fees: Instead of paying for each individual license, a campus license covers all users on campus.
Remote access:
- Our campus licenses allow all students and staff to access the required texts and e-books anytime, anywhere—be it on campus or from home. We register the IP addresses of the institution to enable seamless access.
- Simultaneous access: An unlimited number of students can access our texts simultaneously, ensuring flexibility in both time and location, and avoiding peak times for individual titles.
Attractiveness for students and staff:
- Competitive advantage: Universities that offer a wide range of current and innovative literature can be more appealing to students and researchers.
- Better education: Access to up-to-date academic texts enables students to learn with relevant, practical knowledge.
- Ever-growing collection: With the license, we continually update the content. GRIN publishes up to 1,000 new academic texts each month, expanding the available resources.
- Printing and download by chapter, keyword and full-text search: We provide all our titles as PDF files, allowing students and staff to print or search within the text.
Company license
For companies, coaches, clinics, and care facilities, we offer customized licenses that provide your employees with access to a tailored portfolio of academic texts.
Advantages:
- Customized package: Choose to access the entire portfolio or focus on specific subject areas that are most relevant to you—you decide.
- Up-to-date literature: GRIN’s texts are highly current and up-to-date. Plus, you’ll have continuous access to the newest releases.
- Volume discounts: As a company, you can offer your employees access to comprehensive knowledge at an attractive price.
- Intranet: We can provide access to the purchased texts through your company’s intranet or Sharepoint system.
- Printing and download by chapter, keyword and full-text search: We provide all our titles as PDF files, allowing employees and staff to print or search within the text.
Theme packages
Looking to purchase titles from specific subject areas? Our theme packages offer a convenient option. We offer seven theme packages for the following subject areas:
Package 1: Media, business studies and law
- Theses and textbooks
- Publications from 2023 and 2024
- 251 texts: Overview
Package 2: History, philosophy and theology
- Theses and textbooks
- Publications from 2019 to 2024
- 280 texts: Overview
Package 3: Literary studies, mainly German and English studies
- Theses and textbooks
- Publications from 2019 to 2024
- 279 texts: Overview
Package 4: Health topics (medicine, health sciences, nursing sciences, sport, biology, health economics)
- Term papers, case studies and theses
- Publications from 2019 to 2024
- 485 texts: Overview
Package 5: Psychology and social work
- Theses and textbooks
- Publications from 2019 to 2024
- 280 texts: Overview
Package 6: Political science and sociology
- Theses and textbooks
- Publications from 2019 to 2024
- 240 texts: Overview
Package 7: Pedagogy and didactics
- Theses and textbooks
- Publications from 2021 to 2024
- 300 texts: Overview
Package 8: English theses and text books
- Publications from 2019 to 2024
- 172 texts: Overview
All packages contain titles in both German and English language. The files we provide offer an overview of the included texts and the diversity of topics. The last two columns inform you whether the text falls into a specific category:
Imprint “Academic Plus”: Our imprint provides a platform for outstanding theses from subjects such as business, media, humanities, history, pedagogy, law, computer science, and health. These theses are meticulously researched and present innovative approaches that are of interest beyond their specific fields. In addition to societal analyses and studies of current issues, our authors provide practical recommendations. All theses published under our imprint “Academic Plus” have received excellent ratings from their universities and have been thoroughly reviewed by our editorial team.
GRIN Anthology: Our anthologies compile works from various authors that are thematically connected. This helps us highlight different perspectives on specific topics while also featuring shorter texts. All of our anthologies consist exclusively of good to excellent essays and term papers.