Maney Publishing is an independent Academic publishing

Academic publishing

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 company specialising in peer-reviewed

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 academic journals in materials science

Materials science

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 and engineering

Engineering

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, the humanities

Humanities

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, and health science. The company has offices in Leeds and London in the United Kingdom, and in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States. Maney publishes extensively for learned societies, universities, and professional bodies. In 2007, Maney Publishing (USA) was incorporated, to attract work from North American bodies.

Maney currently (2009) employs over 50 staff and publishes over 100 journals. The company offers an open access option (MORE OpenChoice) to all authors.

History

Maney Publishing was formed in 1997, from a specialist typesetting and printing company, W.S. Maney & Son Ltd, which had been founded in Leeds in 1900. Maney's transition from printing to publishing was based on a series of long-standing relationships with learned societies and academic bodies. The oldest such partner is the English Goethe Society, with which Maney has worked since 1947. Newly joined organisations with publishing agreements in the 21st century include the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

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, for whom Maney has published journals and books since 2001.

Selected list of journals published by Maney

• The Imaging Science Journal
  The Imaging Science Journal
  The Imaging Science Journal , formerly The Journal of Photographic Science, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering both fundamental and applied scientific aspects of imaging, including conventional, analogue chemical, electronic, digital and hybrid imaging systems...
  
  
• International Wood Products Journal
  International Wood Products Journal
  The International Wood Products Journal , formerly The Journal of the Institute of Wood Science , is published by Maney Publishing on behalf of The Wood Technology Society of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining...
  
  
• Public Archaeology
  Public Archaeology (journal)
  Public Archaeology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2000 and published by Maney Publishing. It covers the relationships between practical archaeology, archaeological theory and cultural heritage management models, and the involvement of wider civic, governmental, and...