Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press was founded in 1933 to aid in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. The Laboratory has a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences. It...

 purpose of furthering the advance and spread of scientific knowledge.

CSHL Press publishes monographs, technical manuals, handbooks, review volumes, conference proceedings, scholarly journals and videotapes. These examine important topics in molecular biology, genetics, development, virology, neurobiology, immunology and cancer biology. Manuscripts for books and for journal publication are invited from scientists worldwide.

Revenue from sales of CSHL Press publications is used solely in support of research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

s published by CSHL Press:

• CSH Perspectives
• CSH Protocols
  CSH Protocols
  ]CSH Protocols is an on-line scientific journal and methods database for biologists, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Protocols are presented step-by-step and edited in the style that has made Molecular Cloning, Antibodies, Cells and many other CSH manuals essential to the work of...
  
  
• Genes & Development
  Genes & Development
  Genes & Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of molecular biology, molecular genetics, cell biology and development. Founded in 1987, the journal is published twice monthly by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press from editorial offices in Woodbury, New York, USA, in...
  
  
• Genome Research
  Genome Research
  Genome Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. The focus of the journal is on genome-wide studies in any organism, including single gene studies that are placed in a genomic context. This scope includes both experimental and computational...
  
  
• Learning & Memory
• RNA
  RNA (journal)
  RNA is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that focuses on all aspects of RNA molecules; both their structures, metabolism, functions and evolution. The journal was first published in March 1995 by Cambridge University Press, then from 2003 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. It is published on...
  
  

CSHL Press has two operation centers. The main office is located in Woodbury, New York

Woodbury, New York

Woodbury is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York:*Woodbury, Nassau County, New York*Woodbury, Orange County, New York...

, near Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where Editorial, Marketing & Advertising, Composition, and Fulfillment & Distribution functions are performed. An additional Book Fulfillment & Distribution operation is handled by NBN International in Plymouth

Plymouth

Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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Its current Executive Director is John R. Inglis, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh Medical School, 1976.

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• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press