Affiliations and Membership

CrossRef is a non-profit association of about 2000 voting member publishers who represent 4300 societies and publishers, including both commercial and non-profit organizations. It was launched as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable persistent crosspublisher citation linking and is an official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency of the International DOI Foundation. Atlantis Press is a member of Crossref.

iThenticate is the premier tool for researchers and professional writers to check their original works for potential plagiarism. With an easy to use submission process that checks for similarity against the world’s top published works, researchers and institutions can feel confident that their academic reputation will be protected.

CLOCKSS participants have the opportunity to be deeply involved in all aspects of our industry and help to keep the community’s best interests at the forefront. CLOCKSS participates in the community and represents the shared interests of libraries and publishers on industry policies and practices

The Council of Science Editors (CSE) is an international membership organization for editorial professionals publishing in the sciences. Our purpose is to serve over 800 members in the scientific, scientific publishing, and information science communities by fostering networking, education, discussion, and exchange. Our aim is to be an authoritative resource on current and emerging issues in the communication of scientific information.

NISO is where content publishers, libraries, and software developers turn for information industry standards that allow them to work together. Through NISO, all of these communities are able to collaborate on mutually accepted standards—solutions that enhance their operations today and form a foundation for the future.

NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, is a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). We identify, develop, maintain, and publish technical standards and recommended practices to manage information in today's continually changing digital environment.

CHORUS is creating a future where the output flowing from funded research is easily and permanently discoverable, accessible and verifiable by anyone in the world.

By providing the necessary metadata infrastructure and governance to enable a smooth, low-friction interface between funders, authors, institutions and publishers in a distributed network environment, CHORUS can minimize open access compliance burdens while increasing access to literature and data in support of funder mandates worldwide.

STM Aims

• To assist publishers and their authors in their activities in disseminating the results of research in the fields of science, technology and medicine;
• To assist national and international organisations and communications industries in the electronic environment, who are concerned with improving the dissemination, storage and retrieval of scientific, technical and medical information;
• To carry out the foregoing work of the Association in conjunction with the International Publishers Association (IPA) and with the national publishers associations and such other governmental and professional bodies, international and national, who may be concerned with these tasks.

ALPSP is the international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them. Membership of ALPSP is for the whole organization so all employees can take advantage of the benefits on offer. We are proud to have nearly 300 member organizations across 30 countries.

IRRO IRRO is a copyright society established in the year 2000 under Section 33 of the Copyright Act, 1957. It represents the rights of authors and publishers of literary works, and has global affiliations with international organisations like IFRRO.

Registered by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, IRRO is exclusively permitted to commence and carry on the copyright business of “reprographic rights in the field of literary works” in India. It is the sole licensing authority to issue licenses to users of copyrighted works of its members, collect royalties on the behalf of rights owners and distribute them.

The Federation of Indian Publishers is the representative body of publishers in English, Hindi and other regional languages with its membership from all over India, representing more than 80 percent of the publishing industry. All the leading publishers of the country are its direct members, other publishers being represented through various local associations.

Delhi State Booksellers' and Publishers' Association came into being by force of circumstances. It was as early as 1942 (during the II World War) when the Government of India promulgated an ordinance called "Antiprofiteering" ordinance. Under this ordinance the trade people were allowed just 15% margin of profit, over the landed cost.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is the pace of change in publishing is rapid and dramatic. Publishers, authors, and agents need to reach global markets quickly. When they need innovative licensing and content solutions, powerful open access management tools, and world-class custom solutions created by technology experts, publishers around the globe turn to Copyright Clearance Center (CCC).

Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. They can include (but are not limited to) peer reviews on Faculty of 1000, citations on Wikipedia and in public policy documents, discussions on research blogs, mainstream media coverage, bookmarks on reference managers like Mendeley, and mentions on social networks such as Twitter.

Sourced from the Web, altmetrics can tell you a lot about how often journal articles and other scholarly outputs like datasets are discussed and used around the world. For that reason, altmetrics have been incorporated into researchers’ websites, institutional repositories, journal websites, and more.

TrendMD is a content recommendation platform used by publishers and researchers in the academic and medical fields. It provides personalized article recommendations to readers based on their interests and browsing behavior.

TrendMD's algorithm analyzes user engagement data and content metadata to deliver relevant articles from a network of publishers. These recommendations appear as suggested articles or related content widgets on websites, allowing readers to discover and access articles that align with their interests.

Portico is a digital preservation service designed to ensure that scholarly content remains accessible and usable for future generations. It archives academic journals, books, and other scholarly resources, safeguarding them against potential loss or damage.

Portico works with publishers, libraries, and other institutions to provide long-term preservation of digital content, ensuring that it remains available even if the original sources become unavailable or are no longer maintained.

This service is crucial for the academic and research community, maintaining the continuity and integrity of scholarly communication.

Last Updated: 10^th July, 2024