IOS Press

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IOS Press
Parent company Sage
Founded1987
Country of originNetherlands
Headquarters locationAmsterdam
DistributionBooks: Baker & Taylor (United States)
Co Info (Australia)
multiple distributors (Asia)
Journals: EBSCO (United States)
Globe Publication (India)
Maruzen, Kinokuniya (Japan)
Publication typesBooks, Journals
Nonfiction topics Scientific, technical, and medical research
Official website www.iospress.com

IOS Press is a publishing house headquartered in Amsterdam, [1] specialising in the publication of journals and books related to fields of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research. [2] It was established in 1987 by Einar Fredriksson [3] [4] with a strong focus on computer science and artificial intelligence. [3] [5] IOS Press has since diversified to include basic sciences and medicine. [1] [2] IOS Press publishes around 90 international journals and releases about 70 book titles annually, covering fields such as computer science, mathematics, the natural sciences, and topics within medicine. [2] [6] [7]

Contents

A subsidiary based in the United States (IOS Press, Inc.) was created in 1990, based in the Washington, D.C. area. [6] In the 1990s, IOS Press partnered with Ohmsha Ltd. (Japan) and re-established the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA GmbH aka AKA-Verlag (Germany). [8] Other co-publishing and joint venture relationships have been formed to extend IOS Press' academic publishing coverage between Germany, Japan and China. [9] [6]

IOS Press expanded to acquire the publications list of Delft University Press (Netherlands) in 2005, and has since explored open access initiatives for books and journals through TU Delft. [10] [11] IOS Press publishes a number of peer-reviewed open access journals, including In Silico Biology, Information Knowledge Systems Management, Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation [12] and Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine. [13]

IOS Press is a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). [14] [15] IOS Press is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact, [16] [17] and has taken steps to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the publishing industry. [18] [19] In 2023 the company was acquired by Sage. [20] [21]

Journals

IOS publishes over 90 journals, including: [7]

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  12. ↑ "IOS Press introduces Open Library to offer authors an open-access option". Science X. March 18, 2011.
  13. ↑ "IOS Press journal, Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine transitions to full open access publication". KnowledgeSpeak. January 18, 2023.
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