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| Concerned with 20th century illustrated books. Includes a gallery for the exhibition of fine book and related arts, catalogues of books available for sale, and the Colophon Journal which is designed to explore the publishing paradigms created by the World Wide Web. | |
| US organisation established to encourage good practice in documentary editing by promoting cooperation and information exchange among editors. Responsible for setting standards regarding documentary editions, the group provides access to a range of projects, a quarterly publication entitled Documentary Editing, and news, events, and meetings of the group. | ||
| Database of over 150,000 international print and electronic publications including magazines, journals, e journals, newsletters, and monographs. Provides access to publication information including, titles, formats, publisher addresses, editor contacts, circulation data, and ISSN/ISBN numbers. | ||
| Provides access to online catalogues and subject specific information held by academic publishers. Subjects are arranged in categories such as Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Professional, Education, Reference, and Scientific, Technical and Medical. Also includes an alphabetical list of publishers. | ||
| Details of online and bibliographic resources on publishing and book development in Africa, journals and newsletters containing articles on various aspects of African publishing, and addresses of African publishers. | ||
| Publishers' web sites listed by country. Twenty eight countries are listed along with links to international and multinational sites, and other links related to publishing. | ||
| Association of UK magazine publishers. | ||
| Annual journal discussing interest in books and manuscripts, maps, printing, the graphic arts, bibliography and textual criticism. Full text of all issues from 1947 available. | ||
| Links to numerous online resources about Africa, African studies, and African publishing. | ||
| Information about principles for document identification, a mechanism for a publisher item identifier (PII) and the relationship between revised (1996) SICI and PII. | ||
| Founded in 1836, the Newspaper Society represents and promotes the interests of Britain's regional and local newspaper publishers. | ||
| Paper comparing the costs of traditional publishing methods with electronic opportunities. | ||
| Details of bestselling titles, careers information, and a guide to book publishing in Britain. Magazine archives available from 1995. | ||
| Information about the history and process of handpress printing. Documents printers who employ handpresses and their publications, and provides details of related exhibitions, study opportunities, workshops, and conferences. Also lists museums and libraries worldwide which have handpresses on display, with links to Web pages where available. | ||
| Extensive collection of resources on the history of print culture. | ||
| Offers original articles and features about publishing, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include book awards, copyright, events and associations, industry periodicals, magazine publishing, media contacts, online newspapers and publishing courses. | ||
| Trade association of around 80 Scottish publishers, founded in 1974, which helps its members to market their books and is a source of information about publishing in general for publishers, the media and the public. Online information includes the Scottish bestsellers list and a directory of all members, with web sites, postal addresses and telephone numbers. | ||
| ALPSP is a meeting point for those involved in the publication of academic and professional books and journals. | ||
| A not for profit research organisation with members from the publishing community. Aims to provide accurate and current research information about the industry for its members and others. Includes the BISAC Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Guide. | ||
| Contains articles on improving writing skills, the publishing industry, journalism, screenwriting, business writing, writing markets, Internet writing, and scholarly articles on related topics. | ||
| Biographies of journalists, publishers, illustrators, artists, and cartoonists, such as Charles Dickens, John Tenniel, William Blake, and William Hogarth. Also covers newspapers and journals, both national and provincial, including The Times, The Edinburgh Review, and Blackwood's Magazine, as well as radical 19th century publications like The Poor Man's Guardian and The Black Dwarf. | ||
| A representative body for book and journal publishers in the UK. Includes information on the associations specialist divisions, and contact details for the association. | ||
| Resource tracing the history of the printing industry, giving examples of decorative initials, which may be downloaded and used freely, and masterpieces in typography and page decoration from the days of Gutenberg and throughout the 17th century. Also provides information about the legend of Koster, thought to have invented printing, and offers examples of digital art and Web page designs. | ||
| Article evaluating the role of publishers in controlling and charging for the use of the material freely contributed by authors. It concludes that the state of science publishing is bad and getting worse, and that subservience is as corrosive in journalism as it is in academic research. | ||
| Article detailing a program established that enables authors to submit journal contributions electronically using SGML. Benefits and drawbacks of such a program for authors and publishers are discussed. | ||
| Biographical information on prominent British book and newspaper publishers. | ||
| The Society for Imaging Science and Technology is an international non profit society whose mission is to advance the understanding and application of imaging science and technology, with particular emphasis on image assessment in the areas of graphic arts, photo-finishing, non-impact printing, photo-polymers, silver halide, electronic imaging, image preservation, pre-press technologies, and hybrid imaging systems. Publications include the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology and the Journal of Electronic Imaging. | ||
| Full text version of the journal from 1997 onwards, available free of charge. Contains articles covering major publishing issues such as peer review, consortia, linking, copyright, and licensing, and offers an email alerting service for new issues. | ||
| Provides a listing of UK magazine publishers, together with a list of their titles and links to their webpages, an analysis of the industry structure, and details of magazine launches, closures, and events. | ||
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