IOS Press is a

publishing house Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

headquartered in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

, 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 with a strong focus on

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

and

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

. IOS Press has since diversified to include basic sciences and medicine. IOS Press publishes around 90 international journals and releases about 70 book titles annually, covering fields such as

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

, the

natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

s, and topics within medicine.

History

A subsidiary based in the United States (IOS Press, Inc.) was created in 1990, based in the Washington, D.C. area. In the 1990s, IOS Press partnered with Ohmsha Ltd. (Japan) and re-established the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA GmbH aka AKA-Verlag (Germany). Other co-publishing and

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relationships have been formed to extend IOS Press'

academic publishing Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes Research, academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or Thesis, theses. The part of academic written output that is n ...

coverage between Germany, Japan and China. IOS Press expanded to acquire the publications list of Delft University Press (

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

) in 2005, and has since explored open access initiatives for books and journals through TU Delft. IOS Press publishes a number of peer-reviewed

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

journals, including ''In Silico Biology'', ''Information Knowledge Systems Management'', ''Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation'' and ''Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine''. IOS Press is a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). IOS Press is a signatory of the

SDG Publishers Compact The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact open to publishers, associations, booksellers and other organizations involved in the publishing industry, in support of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development ...

, and has taken steps to support the achievement of the

Sustainable Development Goals The ''2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'', adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" – wh ...

(SDGs) in the publishing industry. In 2023 the company was acquired by Sage.

Journals

IOS publishes over 90 journals, including: * '' Biorheology'' * '' Fundamenta Informaticae'' * '' ICGA Journal'' * ''

Information Services & Use ''Information Services & Use'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the area of information technology, especially information management and applications. It is peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more peop ...

'' * '' Journal of Alzheimer's Disease'' * '' Journal of Huntington's Disease'' * '' Journal of Parkinson's Disease'' * '' NeuroRehabilitation'' * '' Journal of Neutron Research'' * ''

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References

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