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Oxford Journals announces partnership with The Gerontological Society of America

11 August 2008

Today Oxford Journals and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) announced a new publishing partnership for GSA’s three journals: The Gerontologist, and The Journals of Gerontology: Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences and Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Oxford Journals will be publishing the three GSA journals from 2009. First published as one journal in 1946, The Journal of Gerontology was the first journal on ageing to be published in the United States. Over the years, the journal grew tremendously and, in 1961, became three separate publications (Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, and The Gerontologist). The Journals of Gerontology, Series A and Series B, cover a broad range of approaches. The Gerontologist is a bimonthly journal that provides a multidisciplinary perspective on human ageing through the publication of research and analysis in gerontology, including social policy, program development, and service delivery.

Both readers and librarians will be pleased to know that Oxford Journals is digitizing the back archive of The Gerontologist and The Journals of Gerontology. Content dating back to volume one, issue one will be included in the Oxford Journals Archive in 2009.

Steven Zarit, GSA’s Task Force on Publications Chair, said the collaboration will open new possibilities for the Society. “We will have the benefit of the resources of a large publisher of scientific journals, who will help us get our journals into more libraries and will provide the latest technology for the editors and authors,” he said. “At the same time, Oxford shares with us the academic goals of high quality scholarship. All decisions about content will be, as in the past, the responsibility of editors appointed by GSA. This partnership assures the continued success of our journals in a competitive marketplace.”

Charlotte Brabants, Editorial Director at Oxford Journals, comments, “we are proud to be publishing these prestigious journals and look forward to working with the GSA to help them build upon the strong foundations they have already established and to serve their 5000 members.”

The Gerontologist and The Journals of Gerontology join Oxford Journals’ prestigious collection of journals which is strong in social sciences, medicine, biological sciences, and public health, and includes complementary titles in the field of ageing. According to the recent 2007 Journal Citation Reports, one fifth of this collection is in the top 10% and over two thirds in the top 50% of their subject category.



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For further information please contact:
Kirsty Luff
Senior Communications and Marketing Manager, Oxford Journals
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Notes to Editors
The Gerontological Society of America is the nation's oldest and largest multidisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. The principal mission of the Society - and its 5,000+ members - is to advance the study of aging and disseminate information among scientists, decision makers, and the general public. Read more about GSA

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