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Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. It currently publishes more than 6,000 new publications a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals.
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Atypon® is setting new standards for digital content delivery, discovery, and monetization. Literatum, the company's flagship publishing platform, is used to host more than 11 million journal articles, more than 25,000 eBooks, and many other types of professional and scholarly content. For more information, visit www.Atypon.com.
QScience.com an integral part of Qatar Foundation, is a multidisciplinary online journals portal. We publish academic and scientific research, peer-reviewed to the highest standards in order to connect the international research community to one of the fastest growing research and development centres in the world. QScience.com adopts the gold open access publishing model and initially hosts ten scholarly journals covering subject areas such as: cardiology, information & librarian studies, engineering, education, healthcare, law, design and Islamic studies. QScience Connect is a new multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic and scientific journal that aims to provide a home for ALL research considered to be valid, ethical and correct. QScience.com offers advanced technology to make research findings readily accessible and searchable and provides a central resource for databases and repositories. QScience.com can accept submissions in all languages, delivers abstracts in both English and Arabic and includes interactive polls and discussion forums to allow readers to post comments, which can be linked to social media accounts. Our aim is to reflect the burgeoning research environment of Qatar to the wider world and to foster scientific and scholarly communication in the 21st century.
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a global rights broker for the world's most sought after materials, including millions of in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, images, blogs and e-books. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, today CCC promotes the seamless sharing of knowledge by creating innovative licensing solutions that let academic institutions and businesses quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials whole compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works. For more information, visit www.copyright.com
River Valley specializes in typesetting STM journals and books. They have an automated workflow whereby PDFs are generated from XML/MathML with 100% automation. The workflow has taken some 12 years to develop, and is based around free open source software.
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. www.sagepublications.com
Thomson Reuters support all aspects of a scholarly association’s workflow. Our industry-leading citation index, Web of ScienceSM, is the platform of choice for more than 20 million researchers, increasing the discoverability of your content. ScholarOne® workflow solutions, trusted by more than 365 publishers and societies, streamline your meeting, book and journal peer review process to help you get your content to market faster. Customized mailing lists from Web of Science Author Connect® help ensure your marketing reaches the right people. And you can measure your results - and monitor the competition - with our continuum of Research Analytics content, tools and services.
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Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research. Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise 45,000 titles covering academic research, professional development, over 300 research journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible publishing. Playing a leading role in today’s international market place, Cambridge University Press has more than 50 offices around the globe, and it distributes its products to nearly every country in the world.
For further information, please go to: http://www.cambridge.org
CrossRef (www.crossref.org) is a not-for-profit membership association of publishers. Since its founding in 1999, CrossRef has provided reference linking services for 45 million content items, including journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, reference entries, technical reports, standards, and data sets. CrossRef's goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistant, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.
DataSalon is the leading provider of customer insight solutions for academic publishers. Our core product MasterVision integrates all of your subscription, author, usage and registration data into a complete 360º view for every individual and institution, creating business insight for your whole organisation and high-value intelligence for leads, cross-selling and renewals. MasterVision is fully managed and hosted, and is backed by first-class service and support. We're pleased to count many of the most innovative publishers among our clients, including AIP, BMJ, IOPP, OUP and RSC. Visit www.datasalon.com for more info.
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes a range of Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. Scientific American became part of NPG in 2009, and is at the heart of NPG's newly-formed consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. For more information, please go to www.nature.com
Portland Customer Services (PCS) offers a wide range of efficient cost-effective solutions to publishers, academic societies and membership-based organizations to meet their fulfilment and distribution needs. From fulfilling journal subscriptions and collecting membership dues to online hosting and book distribution Portland Customer Services can provide the complete package. PCS is a division of Portland Press Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical Society. Further information is available on www.portland-services.com or contact adam.marshall@portlandpress.com
PODW are a single copy print on demand and short run digital book and journal printers offering high quality, affordable mono and colour print from as low as one copy. We use the latest digital printing and finishing equipment available in the market today. In addition, we offer a global print and distribute model via our alliance printers in the USA, Australia and Brazil (new for 2012). This has been extended to include a growing worldwide network of re-sell channels for POD titles. We offer e book conversion and one of the most comprehensive and competitive multiple e resell channels in the market today.
Publishing Technology is the largest supplier of software and services to the publishing industry. Our enterprise applications, online hosting platforms and sales and marketing services are tailored to support evolving digital strategies and enable information providers globally of any size or discipline to capitalize on the full potential of their content.
RSC Publishing is one of the largest and most dynamic publishers of chemical science in the world. Located in offices in Cambridge (UK), Philadelphia (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing and Shanghai (China).
With a history dating back to 1841, today RSC Publishing is globally recognised as a publisher of high impact journals, cutting-edge books and award winning magazines. Our innovative technology enables us to deliver and link our content through an advanced content delivery platform and the award-winning ChemSpider (our free chemistry database resource).
We are a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Committed to advancing the chemical sciences, any surplus is reinvested in supporting the global scientific community.
Swets is the global market leader in managing professional information. We develop and deliver innovating services that enable the use of knowledge to its full extent. From more than twenty offices around the world we actively serve clients and publishers in over 160 countries. Our active role in today’s complex information marketplace has led E-Content Magazine to award us regularly in their annual “100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry.” We are the only information agent to be ISO 9001:2008 certified on a global basis, which pays testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures (www.swets.com).
Turpin Distribution is an international fulfilment and distribution company providing services to the academic, scholarly and professional publishing industry. We provide solutions for book, journal and online publishers that include:
• Global fulfilment and distribution
• UK and US offices with multilingual customer care advisors
• Order and renewals processing
• Billing and account collection
• Comprehensive warehouse services with global distribution for books and journals
• Full subscription management for print and online journals with e-commerce ordering
• Online sales reporting with data manipulation for analysis and customer management
Turpin can accommodate any business model and pricing policy, enabling publishers to retain control of their products; develop collections; set multiple pricing options; use a variety of routes to market; and manage their customers successfully. For more information about our services please contact Neil Castle and he will be delighted to discuss how Turpin can assist you with your distribution and subscription management requirements.
Neil Castle - Operations Director (email; T: + 44 (0) 1767 604868) www.turpin-distribution.com
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific medical, technical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes 1,500+ peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works, and laboratory protocols. For more information, please visit our award-winning online platform, Wiley Online Library, one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.
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At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides digital content development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire partners with influential societies, university presses, and other publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and producing the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. The underlying infrastructure of HighWire's electronic publishing platform is Web-services-oriented, flexible, and permeable, allowing publishers to easily layer new software and services to their sites that will meet the ever-changing needs of today's online and mobile readers. (http://highwire.stanford.edu)