ABOUT US
Our goal is to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience.
As a major international publisher of academic and research journals, we publish well over 200 journals, many in partnership with the world’s leading prestigious learned societies.
Our collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.
Enduring values
At Oxford Journals, the following principles inform everything we do, think, and create.
Quality
We aim for excellence, sustained by a responsible and professional approach to journal publishing.
Value
Through fair pricing policies, we ensure the affordability and wide distribution of the research we publish, while never undervaluing it.
Sharing knowledge
Fair pricing, proactive marketing programmes, and exploration of new publishing models allow us to maximize the reach and impact of the research we publish.
Innovation
We use online technology, in an intelligent and imaginative way, to develop more efficient ways of sharing research, and to provide even better value service.
Partnerships
By developing strong partnerships with societies, libraries, and authors, we use our combined expertise and content to create new opportunities for sharing learning and ideas.
Future vision
We are continuously improving access to our journal archives, content, and research services.
We have the drive to realize exciting new horizons that will benefit not only the academic community, but society itself.
We also have views on the future of our industry. The emergence of the online medium as the predominant vehicle for the ‘consumption’ and distribution of much academic research has led to some conflicting and often confusing indications of the likely future role of both the traditional academic journal and the traditional academic journal publisher.
On the one hand, the role of a large well respected publisher has never seemed so essential, as we witness the growing demand for sophisticated online journal features and functionality, for very long-term secure electronic archiving and perpetual availability, and for the sales, legal, and IT resources to negotiate with the ever more influential and demanding library purchasing consortia worldwide.
On the other hand, the mounting pressure for institutions to create, fund, and maintain their own institutional repositories to house the output of their own researchers, the growing influence in some quarters of the ‘open access’ movement, the increasing sophistication of authoring software, the accelerating speed of the Internet, and the ‘Googlization’ of the means of discovering and retrieving research information are all suggesting a trend towards the democratization of the research information distribution process which some believe may dilute or even eliminate the role of the academic research journal and its publisher.
At Oxford Journals, however, we believe that two things are quite certain:
- Good quality academic research will continue to be funded and conducted
- A significant number of key functions involved in the validation, distribution, marketing, and preservation of this research will still need to be organized effectively and professionally
The exact mix of models whereby these key functions will be performed is currently in a state of experimentation and evolution. We recognize this. That is why, in our controlled experiments with open access, our participation in Institutional Repository ventures such as SHERPA in the UK and subject-based repository ventures such as PubMed Central in the USA, we are supplementing our traditional journal publishing skills with a growing proficiency in managing the same processes within other models. We look forward to sharing the fruits of our experience with all our partners in publishing, and together facing a future with a confidence born out of diligent anticipation and preparation for whatever new publishing conventions eventually take root and flourish.
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