News

Upgraded research portal part of enhanced production workflow, to also include
self-service author proofing

Boston, MA—January 21, 2021—The American Meteorological Society (AMS), the leading scientific and professional organization promoting the advancement of atmospheric, oceanic and hydrologic sciences, has launched its new online journals platform on KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL)’s PubFactory platform.

The new AMS website (journals.ametsoc.org) hosts all content from the Society’s 11 prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). Following an extensive review of site requirements with AMS leadership, KGL PubFactory managed the comprehensive web development project and site migration process for the full archive of 117,000 journal articles dating to 1920.

In addition to the online hosting platform, AMS is now working closely with KGL to streamline and optimize its journal production workflow and processes, adding services such as web-based proofing to help accelerate publication, contain costs, and improve the author experience.

Brian Papa, Associate Executive Director at AMS, stated: “Working with PubFactory has honestly exceeded our expectations and we are very excited about this latest chapter in our 15-year relationship with Sheridan and now KGL. We were anxious about going live right before the end of the year, but the team did a great job meeting milestones and keeping to schedule. We are particularly looking forward to maximizing our newly integrated journal workflow which offers a dynamic, real-time online approach to proofing that will be of huge benefit to our authors.”

José Fossi, VP of Client Services for KGL PubFactory, added: “The American Meteorological Society is one of the most important Society publishers on our roster, with a high volume of journal content being regularly produced and an extremely active researcher and author base at its heart. The Society and its global community deserve a cutting-edge hosting platform which caters to all their needs, and on the back end, journal production which facilitates quick and pain-free publication. We are confident that this expanded relationship delivers on both these fronts and we look forward to serving the AMS community long into the future.”

KGL’s end-to-end proposition for scholarly publishers includes project management, AI-powered language analysis and copyediting, XML composition and proofing, digital and print production, and online hosting. The PubFactory platform hosts over 2,300 journals and 400,000 books, numerous databases, and reference works.

About AMS

The American Meteorological Society, founded in 1919, is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service. AMS advances understanding through high-impact, peer-reviewed scientific publications, creates community among atmospheric scientists, professionals, students, authors, educators, researchers, and weather enthusiasts from around the world, and is an active outreach organization for the benefit of society. For more information, please visit www.ametsoc.org.

About KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) is the premier industry provider of editorial, production, online hosting, and transformative solutions for every stage of the content lifecycle. KGL serves the journal, educational publishing, and eLearning markets from content creation through distribution of print and digital products. A division of CJK Group, Inc., KGL unites the content and technology expertise of Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning with Sheridan Journal Services and Sheridan PubFactory. The combined company brings over 200 years of experience serving the publishing market and is powered by state-of-the-art, intelligent automated solutions and delivery platforms including Smart Suite and PubFactory. For more information, please visit www.kwglobal.com and www.pubfactory.com.

Contact: Mike Groth, Director of Marketing, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., mike.groth@kwglobal.com

In the latest installment of the KGL blog, Marketing Director, Mike Groth interviews PubFactory’s technical and creative leader Tom Beyer to find out what it’s like to join the new company, what makes the platform different, and where online hosting technology is taking scholarly publishers and their users.

Read more at kwglobal.com/blog

Brainerd, MN – September 8, 2020—CJK Group, Inc. announced today that it has acquired content services business Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning from Cenveo Worldwide Limited, and will be merging them with its own content business Sheridan Journal Services and hosting platform Sheridan PubFactory to form KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL). The combined entity employs approximately 1,500 people globally with offices in Boston, MA; Richmond, VA; and Waterbury, VT in the US; Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, and Noida in India; and London, UK.

KGL (www.kwglobal.com) will operate under the leadership of Atul Goel, formerly President of Cenveo Publisher Services, and he will report to Chris Kurtzman, CEO of CJK Group.

Chris Kurtzman said, “The combination of these two organizations, both of whom have strong reputations and venerable histories, will create an important new entity within CJK Group, positioned for growth while delivering value for customers.”

KGL will provide content services to publishers of journals, books, magazines, corporate learning, and other content-centric organizations. Services range from project management, content development, editorial, peer review management, art and design, rights and permissions, translations, accessibility, production, and online hosting―all supported by customer-facing and internal state-of-the-art technologies. With the expanded scale of the combined organization and backed by the resources of CJK Group, KGL will offer customers industry-leading quality, schedules, and enhanced publishing workflows.

Atul Goel commented, “KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. is poised to be the premier industry provider of editorial, production, eLearning, and hosting solutions. Powered by advanced automation and delivery platforms like Smart Suite and PubFactory, KGL unites wide-ranging talent and over 200 years of experience to offer a true end-to-end content delivery platform.”

About CJK Group, Inc.

CJK Group, Inc. is a national portfolio of print and publishing related services, fulfillment, and technologies serving book, magazine, catalog, and journal publishers. Headquartered in Brainerd, MN, the CJK Group portfolio includes: Bang Printing – Brainerd, MN; Hess Print Solutions Brimfield, OH; KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. – Boston, MA; Richmond, VA; and Waterbury, VT in the US; Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, and Noida in India; and London, UK; Sinclair Printing Company Los Angeles, CA; Sheridan – Chelsea, MI, Grand Rapids, MI, Hanover, NH, Hanover, PA, Versailles, KY; and Webcrafters, Inc. – Madison, WI. For more information, visit www.cjkgroup.com

Media Contact: Brianna Blazek, General Counsel, CJK Group, +1.218.822.2151 brianna.blazek@cjkgroup.com

Hanover, PA—The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has chosen to streamline and optimize its journal production workflow by partnering exclusively with Sheridan for all stages between accepted manuscripts and online hosting. Sheridan’s unique offering integrates production and online hosting, eliminating the traditional hand-off between the composition vendor and a third party online hosting platform to further accelerate the publishing process.

The new 5-year agreement between AMS and Sheridan, beginning in 2021, adds automated XML composition, web-based author proofing, and a fully integrated online hosting platform to the long-standing production and print services provided by Sheridan. The inclusion of online hosting in the new agreement will result in all of the AMS publications transitioning away from the Silverchair platform (currently provided via Allen Press) to Sheridan in December 2020. With all services and publications now consolidated under one company, with one contract, and one relationship, AMS is poised to contain costs, simplify vendor management, and support accelerated publication for AMS authors.

Entering its second century of service to the meteorological and atmospheric science community, the AMS remains committed to continuous enhancement for its high impact, high quality journals program. The decision to introduce web-based author proofing and editing in conjunction with an integrated hosting platform is another step forward in the ongoing AMS initiative to publish faster and improve the author experience with AMS Journals.

AMS Associate Executive Director Brian Papa shared his thoughts on the agreement:  “While we’ve enjoyed a successful relationship with Sheridan for over 15 years, we are enthusiastic about what will effectively become a new workflow for AMS Journals next year. We’re choosing to eliminate hand-offs, move ourselves out of the role of managing a separate hosting arrangement, and remove delays that were inherent to our processes in the past:  Instead of annotating and transmitting PDFs back and forth, authors will be able to input comments and corrections online in real time. Instead of having one company prepare articles for another company’s hosting platform, we will have one company prepare and host our content, which will help us reduce time to publication while also reducing costs in this challenging year.”

Mike Hepp, VP and Division Sales Director, Sheridan Journal Services added: “The ongoing integration of Sheridan’s production and online hosting platforms is enabling us to offer a unique advantage for our clients that combines schedule, quality, and cost enhancements, all while delivering better author and subscriber experiences. Building on the investment in the PubFactory platform and the growth in Sheridan hosting clients, these integrations will allow AMS to take advantage of the efficiencies and advancements available now and in the future by working with one company to meet all of their publishing needs.”

Only Sheridan offers journal production services, printing services, and a wholly owned online hosting platform, enabling the provider to expand its one contract–one company offering to a growing number of association and society publishers.

—-

About Sheridan

Sheridan is a leading provider of print, publishing services, and technology solutions to publishers, societies, associations, university presses, and catalogers. A division of CJK Group, Inc., Sheridan has six U.S. production facilities; each location has a market specialty that supports scholarly journals, books, magazines, reprints, or catalogs. www.sheridan.com / www.pubfactory.com

About AMS

The American Meteorological Society, founded in 1919, is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service. AMS advances understanding through high-impact, peer-reviewed scientific publications, creates community among atmospheric scientists, professionals, students, authors, educators, researchers, and weather enthusiasts from around the world, and is an active outreach organization for the benefit of society.

www.ametsoc.org

Contact: Susan Parente, Sheridan, Publications Marketing Manager, susan.parente@sheridan.com

Hanover, PA—Sheridan PubFactory is excited to announce a new partnership with industry-leading analytics and reporting specialist Scholarly iQ (SiQ). This addition to its expanding network of partner associations enables the launch of a dedicated Reporting and Business Intelligence Platform for PubFactory, offering the opportunity for PubFactory publishers to gain important insights into how and where their content is used.

Established in 2002, SiQ offers services for scholarly publishers in four categories: COUNTER Compliance, Business Intelligence and Insight, Data Management, and Strategic Consulting Services. SiQ also provides COUNTER and SUSHI reporting access to librarians.

SiQ has maintained COUNTER compliance since 2003―essentially since the inception of COUNTER standards―and is an authorized compliant vendor to the latest COUNTER R5 and Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) standards through NISO.

Stuart Maxwell, Scholarly iQ COO commented: “We are very pleased to be partnering with the Sheridan PubFactory team on a dedicated PubFactory Reporting and BI platform through SiQ. Their significant and growing book of business is a perfect fit for the services we offer to the scholarly publishing community, and we look forward to not only ensuring their compliance requirements, but delivering a deeper usage data experience on which to guide better business decisions.”

Sheridan’s José Fossi, VP of Client Services for PubFactory added: “Bringing the expertise, experience, and services of Scholarly iQ to our clients means they will be able to mine not only vital extended information about their business, but they can be assured of continuing COUNTER compliance. Scholarly iQ services give publishers the confidence that they can address their reporting needs with credible, definitive answers.”

Sheridan PubFactory is the only industry service provider that can guide and support publishers at any point during the content development and publication process, from manuscript acceptance to online publishing. The PubFactory platform and publishing services have been adopted by prestigious publishers like Oxford University Press, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group, American Society for Horticultural Science, and the Society for Endocrinology’s Bioscientifica Ltd. Today, the PubFactory platform is host to 2,300+ journals, 300,000+ books, numerous databases, reference works and other scholarly content.

—-

About Scholarly iQ

Scholarly iQ provides independent, trusted eBusiness solutions to the academic publishing market. Leaders in usage reporting since 2002, SiQ services integrate and deliver meaningful data accurately and on time for better business decisions.

SiQ leverages leading technologies and has a solid team of professionals in online publishing, web analytics, database integration, and website development, providing legendary client support 24×7 with energy, enthusiasm and commitment. This combination ensures that SiQ continuously provides exemplary customer centric solutions with industry leading people, processes and technologies.

www.scholarlyiq.com

About Sheridan

Sheridan is a leading provider of print, publishing services, and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. A division of CJK Group, Inc., Sheridan has six U.S.‐based production facilities; each location has a market specialty that supports scholarly journals, books, magazines, reprints, or catalogs. Sheridan is also the provider of the scholarly publishing platform, PubFactory.

www.sheridan.com / www.pubfactory.com

Contact: Susan Parente, Sheridan, Publications Marketing Manager, susan.parente@sheridan.com