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IOS Press

{{Short description|Publishing house}}

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| parent = Sage

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| founded = 1987

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| country = Netherlands

| headquarters = Amsterdam

| distribution = Books: Baker & Taylor (United States)
Co Info (Australia)
multiple distributors (Asia)
Journals: EBSCO (United States)
Globe Publication (India)
Maruzen, Kinokuniya (Japan)

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| publications = Books, Journals

| topics = Scientific, technical, and medical research

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| website = {{URL|https://www.iospress.com}}

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IOS Press is a publishing house headquartered in Amsterdam, specialising in the publication of journals and books related to fields of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research. It was established in 1987 by Einar Fredriksson{{cite web |title=IOS Press |url=https://www.dtls.nl/community/partners/list/ios-press/ |website=Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences.}}{{cite news |title=Popke Huizinga appointed director of IOS Press |url=http://www.stm-publishing.com/popke-huizinga-appointed-director-of-ios-press/ |work=STM Publishing News |date=February 7, 2014}} with a strong focus on computer science and artificial intelligence.{{cite book |last1=Snellen |first1=I.Th.M. |last2=Thaens |first2=M. |last3=Donk |first3=W.B.H.J. van de |title=Public Administration in the Information Age: Revisited |date=October 10, 2012 |publisher=IOS Press |pages=1–17 |isbn=9781614991373 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qh7vAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 }} IOS Press has since diversified to include basic sciences and medicine.{{cite journal |last1=Deinema |first1=Michaël |title=Amsterdam's re-emergence as a major publishing hub in a changing international context |journal=Paper Presented at the IXth International Conference on Urban History, Lyon, August 29th 2008. |date=2008 |url=https://www.academia.edu/574084}} 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.{{cite web |title=IOS Press |url=https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/benefits/journals-and-online-resources/ios-press |website=University of Cambridge |access-date=12 September 2023}}{{cite web |title=IOS Press |url=https://ooir.org/journals/index.php?publisher=IOS%20Press |website=Academic Publishers & Scholarly Journals}}

History

A subsidiary based in the United States (IOS Press, Inc.) was created in 1990, based in the Washington, D.C. area.{{cite journal |title=About IOS Press |url=https://content.iospress.com/page/about |website=IOS Press}}

In the 1990s, IOS Press partnered with Ohmsha Ltd. (Japan) and re-established the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA GmbH aka AKA-Verlag (Germany).{{cite news |last1=Fredriksson |first1=Einar H. |title=In Memoriam Seiji Sato, 1934 - 2012 |url=https://www.stm-assoc.org/2012_02_22_In_Memoriam_Seiji_Sato.pdf |work=STM Association |date=2012}} Other co-publishing and joint venture relationships have been formed to extend IOS Press' academic publishing coverage between Germany, Japan and China.{{cite web |title=Company Database: IOS Press |url=https://speciation.net/Database/Companies/IOS-Press/-;i1368a-1 |website=Evisa |access-date=12 September 2023}}

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.{{cite news |last1=Prinčič |first1=Alenka |last2=Belliard |first2=Frédérique |title=Towards a community-driven, open access university publisher |url=https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/towards-community-driven-open-access-university-publisher |work=Research Information |date=2 October 2020}}{{cite news |title=TU Delft Open Publishing has partnered with IOS Press |url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2023/library/tu-delft-open-publishing-has-partnered-with-ios-press |work=Delft University of Technology |date=14 June 2023}}

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{{cite news |title=IOS Press introduces Open Library to offer authors an open-access option |url=https://sciencex.com/wire-news/61901210/ios-press-introduces-open-library-to-offer-authors-an-open-acces.html |work=Science X |date=March 18, 2011}} and Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine.{{cite web |title=IOS Press journal, Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine transitions to full open access publication |url=https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/ios-press-journal-journal-of-pediatric-rehabilitation-medicine-transitions-to-full-open-access-publication/ |website=KnowledgeSpeak |date=January 18, 2023}}

IOS Press is a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM).{{cite web |title=Scholarly publishing action on climate change UN SDG 13: Climate Action Portal |url=https://www.stm-assoc.org/un-sustainable-development-goals-2/action-on-climate-change/ |website=International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers |access-date=12 September 2023}}{{cite web |title=Memberships |url=https://www.iospress.com/memberships |website=IOS Press}} IOS Press is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact,{{cite web |title=SDG Publishers Compact Members |url=https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact-members/ |website=United Nations Sustainable Development |access-date=18 July 2023}}{{cite web |title=SDG Publishers Compact |url=https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/ |website=United Nations Sustainable Development |access-date=20 July 2023}} and has taken steps to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the publishing industry.{{cite news |last1=Ricci |first1=Gabriela |title=IOS Press Pursues Sustainable Development Goals via the Publishers Compact |url=https://labs.iospress.com/news-blog/ios-press-pursues-sustainable-development-goals-publishers-compact |work=IOS Press Labs |date=12 January 2023 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805010526/https://labs.iospress.com/news-blog/ios-press-pursues-sustainable-development-goals-publishers-compact |archive-date= Aug 5, 2023 }}{{cite web |title=IOS Press Looking to the Future Sustainable Development Goals |url=https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-10/IOSPress_SDG-report_2022.pdf |website=IOS Press|date=2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805010526/https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-10/IOSPress_SDG-report_2022.pdf |archive-date= Aug 5, 2023 }}

In 2023 the company was acquired by Sage.{{cite web |title=Sage Grows Research Portfolio by Acquiring IOS Press |url=https://www.iospress.com/news/sage-grows-research-portfolio-by-acquiring-ios-press |date=1 November 2023 |publisher=IOS Press |access-date=26 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.iospress.com/about |publisher=IOS Press |access-date=26 January 2024}}

Journals

IOS publishes over 90 journals, including:

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.iospress.nl/}}

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