About
Guided by core values that strive to meet the highest professional standards, our goals and business practices are straightforward, transparent, and ethical. We offer specialized services and products that elevate the quality, accessibility, and impact of research.
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VISION
To contribute in a meaningful and innovative way to a trustworthy scientific ecosystem that furthers our understanding of the world.
Company Story
IOS Press is an independent international scientific, technical, medical (STM) publishing house established in 1987 in Amsterdam. We produce around 90 journals and 70 books annually in a broad range of subject categories, primarily specializing in health and life sciences (including neurosciences, medical informatics, cancer research, and rehabilitation) and computer sciences (including artificial intelligence, data science, and semantic web). In addition, we offer specialized services that support scientific advancement.
Discover the key milestones in our company's journey
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IOS Press is founded, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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IOS Press Inc. is established in Washington, DC, USACo-publishing relationship is established with Ohmsha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan |
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IOS Press and Ohmsha re-establish the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (AKA) GmbH in Berlin, Germany |
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Joint venture between Science Press (Beijing, China), Ohmsha (Tokyo, Japan), and IOS Press is establishedIOS Press becomes official publisher for the NATO Advanced Study Institutes and Partnership subseries |
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AKA merges with Infix, publisher of German-language books in artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science |
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IOS Press launches IOS Press Content Library; all journals are now published online in addition to print |
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IOS Press acquires Delft University Press |
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IOS Press launches its digital book platform, IOS Press EbooksIOS Press co-founds the first of the Academic Publishing in Europe conference series in Berlin |
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IOS Press acquires Millpress Science Publishers |
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Launch of Semantic Web, our first fully open and transparent peer review journal |
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IOS Press launches the Open Library, an open access program that offers authors the option to publish open access in all our journals and books |
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All journal articles are published in a full text HTML format, in addition to PDF and print |
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IOS Press publishes its 1000th ebook |
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IOS Press celebrates its 30th anniversary with a symposium in Amsterdam |
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IOS Press launches LD Connect, a linked data portal containing machine-readable metadata for all IOS Press digital publications |
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Back archive scanning project is complete; journals digitized from their first paper issue onwards, where possible |
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IOS Press publishes its 100,000th journal articleIOS Press launches Labs, a virtual meeting place where information is shared about what is happening behind the scenes at the company |
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IOS Press gets a major rebrand and launches its new corporate website |
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IOS Press celebrates its 35th anniversary with a symposium in Amsterdam and recorded contributions from editors, friends, and colleagues – view all on the IOS Press YouTube channel |
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