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 Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) has chosen to streamline and optimize the journal production workflow for its flagship publication, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH), by partnering with Sheridan to handle all of its production and online hosting services. Sheridan’s unique offering integrates the production and online hosting stages, eliminating the traditional hand-off between the composition vendor and a third party online hosting platform to further accelerate the publishing process.
The comprehensive 5-year agreement, starting in 2021, includes copyediting, composition, author billing, online hosting, printing, subscriber services, reprints, and content sales. With all services consolidated under one company, with one contract, and one relationship, ASTMH is joining a growing number of association and society publishers who are simplifying supplier management, extricating themselves from coordinating multiple vendors, eliminating the delays associated with vendor hand-offs, and containing costs with Sheridan.
Published monthly, AJTMH is among the top-ranked tropical medicine journals in the world. With internationally distributed authorship, and an emphasis on population, clinical and laboratory science and the application of technology in the fields of tropical medicine, parasitology, immunology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, basic and molecular biology, virology and international medicine, AJTMH is a key resource for the publication of critical research on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Managing Editor of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Cathi Siegel, commented on the combined services agreement: “We have worked with Sheridan since 2002, but online hosting always required a separate arrangement and a separate contract. Any time we wanted to incorporate something new we would have to coordinate the project and communications between two separate vendors. Starting next year, any time we want to incorporate a change or add a new feature, we’ll call Sheridan and they will work it out internally. This will improve service to our subscribers as well. There will no longer be a gap between subscription services at Sheridan and the hosting platform―Sheridan will be handling both sides of it for our subscribers. During this challenging year, a combined services agreement also allowed us to leverage our full spend on all services to contain costs moving forward.”
Said Mike Hepp, VP and Division Sales Director, Sheridan Journal Services: “The 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. We’re confident that these integrations will allow ASTMH to see immediate benefits for their publication and their staff, and that ongoing investments we’re making across all of our platforms and services will continue to deliver efficiencies and advancements for the future.”
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.
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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 seven 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 the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, founded in 1903, is the largest international scientific organization of experts dedicated to reducing the worldwide burden of tropical infectious diseases and improving global health. They accomplish this through generating and sharing scientific evidence, informing health policies and practices, fostering career development, recognizing excellence, and advocating for investment in tropical medicine/global health research. www.astmh.org
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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
Hanover, PA— ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) has selected Sheridan PubFactory as online host provider for their book program, which encompasses a wide variety of clinical, professional development and management references and textbooks that serve as essential pharmacy practice resources. ASHP also named Sheridan as its provider of composition and editorial services as well as its print provider.
ASHP is the collective voice of pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory clinics, and other healthcare settings spanning the full spectrum of medication use.
ASHP first sought a comprehensive, full-service workflow through Sheridan Journal Services and single source print for its books through Sheridan’s print facilities in Michigan. The need expanded to build an online hosting platform through Sheridan PubFactory, achieving ASHP’s goal of partnering with a single provider for production and dissemination of their extensive book program, both in print and online. While Sheridan began managing ASHP’s composition, editorial services, and print production in January, the new hosting platform is scheduled to launch archival and new content this summer. ASHP expects to expand their book program output by growing their front list, and creating new products from existing ASHP content repositories.
“We are pleased to have editorial, composition, and print services underway with Sheridan and are excited about launching the next phase of our online presence through the PubFactory platform,” said Daniel J. Cobaugh, Pharm.D., ASHP Vice President of Publishing. “PubFactory will enable ASHP to provide cutting-edge reading experiences for purchasers of our internationally-recognized drug information, educational, and professional development content.”
Mike Hepp, VP and Division Sales Director, Sheridan Journal Services further commented: “The opportunity to provide ASHP with the full complement of Sheridan services allows us to deliver a range of benefits resulting from the seamless interaction and integration of our entire business. Our proven editorial, composition, and print services plus our innovative and mature online publishing platform will serve ASHP and its users well, and we’re excited and honored to add ASHP to the Sheridan family of customers.”
Sheridan 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 end-to-end combination of Sheridan publishing services, print, and online publishing via the PubFactory platform has also been adopted by other prestigious publishers such as the American Society of Nephrology, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group, Harborside, and the American Society for Horticultural Science.
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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. Sheridan is also the provider of the scholarly publishing platform, PubFactory. www.sheridan.com / www.pubfactory.com
About ASHP
ASHP represents pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in acute and ambulatory settings. The organization’s nearly 55,000 members include pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. For more than 75 years, ASHP has been at the forefront of efforts to improve medication use and enhance patient safety. For more information about the wide array of ASHP activities and the many ways in which pharmacists advance healthcare, visit ASHP’s website, ashp.org, or its consumer website, SafeMedication.com.
Contact: Susan Parente, Sheridan, Publications Marketing Manager, susan.parente@sheridan.com
