IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced its

entrance into the book market as part of a long-term strategy to expand its

support to the research community by offering the broadest range of publishing

services to authors and readers.

The IOP ebook programme will provide an

additional content channel for authors looking to publish with a society

publisher. The programme has been designed to meet the demands of today’s

research community by delivering authoritative, high-quality books in physics.

The new portfolio will cover topics across the

physical sciences and will support the needs of physicists as well as

researchers from other disciplines who are working in interdisciplinary areas

of research.

IOP has had a long history in books publishing

and was one of the first publishers to experiment with ebooks. The company sold

the books division in 2005 to focus on its journals portfolio; however, since

then the landscape and demand for ebooks has changed dramatically. IOP is now

excellently positioned to serve the needs of the community.
 
This innovative e-first book programme is built

with the future in mind. As born-digital content, free of legacy issues, it is

designed to meet the needs of the research community in a changing publishing

environment.

IOP is also delighted to announce a strategic

partnership with Morgan and Claypool Publishers (M&C) to build a dedicated

collection as part of the overall ebook program. M&C have combined an

innovative editorial approach with an e-first model which has made them one of

the leading innovators in high-quality book publishing.

M&C’s publishing model – which already

serves the engineering and computer science communities with its Synthesis

Digital Library, and the life sciences community with its Colloquium Digital

Library – will be adopted to create a new physics collection.

M&C’s unique publishing model emphasizes the

rapid digital publication of short books on key research topics that can be

incrementally revised and expanded over time.  The model makes it possible

to publish tutorial works on active research areas much earlier than with

traditional print book models.  Its books provide access to advanced

research that is much more accessible than the original research literature and

provides extensive linked bibliographies for readers who wish to go further.

Olaf Ernst, Commercial Director of IOP

Publishing said: “It is a natural fit for IOP, through its close relationship

with the physics community, to launch a high-quality ebook programme that will

complement its existing journals portfolio. We have a shared vision with

M&C to serve the research community by delivering high-quality content

through an innovative publishing approach. This will form the basis of a strong

partnership and I very much look forward to working together on this.”

Michael Morgan, President and CEO of Morgan and

Claypool, said: “We are very enthusiastic to collaborate with IOP and to

benefit from its deep knowledge and commitment to the physics discipline in

jointly developing a resource that we both believe will be of significant

value.”

Commissioning content will begin immediately.

ENDS

Notes to Editors

For further information, contact Karen Watts,

Public Relations Manager at IOP Publishing on +44 (0)117 930 1110 or e-mail karen.watts@iop.org.