Imperial College Press
Encyclopedia
Imperial College Press was formed in 1995 and is a partnership between Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London and World Scientific
publishing.
This publishing house was notably awarded the rights, by The Nobel Foundation, Sweden
, to publish The Nobel Prize: The First 100 years, edited by Agneta Wallin Levinovitz & Nils Ringertz and is one of their current bestsellers. Imperial College Press has published about 400 books and 8 journals to date, including works by a number of leading academic authors such as the Nobel Prize
winner Ahmed H. Zewail, Paul C. W. Davies, Freeman Dyson
, and the Nobel Prize
winner Gerard 't Hooft
.
Their publishing mission is to represent leading areas of teaching and research at Imperial College, notably: Chemistry
, Computer Science
, Economics
, Finance
& Management
, Engineering
, Environmental Science
, Life Sciences
, Mathematics
, Medicine
& Healthcare, and Physics
.
In 2007, the offices of ICP hosted a speaking panel event entitled "A marriage made in heaven or hell? Do scientists and the media make good bedfellows?"
World Scientific
World Scientific Publishing is a publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. The company was founded in 1981 and now employs more than 200 staff at its headquarters in Singapore, with offices worldwide in New Jersey, California, London, New Delhi, Tianjin, Sydney, Hong...
publishing.
This publishing house was notably awarded the rights, by The Nobel Foundation, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, to publish The Nobel Prize: The First 100 years, edited by Agneta Wallin Levinovitz & Nils Ringertz and is one of their current bestsellers. Imperial College Press has published about 400 books and 8 journals to date, including works by a number of leading academic authors such as the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner Ahmed H. Zewail, Paul C. W. Davies, Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson FRS is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
, and the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner Gerard 't Hooft
Gerardus 't Hooft
Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G...
.
Their publishing mission is to represent leading areas of teaching and research at Imperial College, notably: Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
& Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, Environmental Science
Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
, Life Sciences
Life sciences
The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, like plants, animals, and human beings. While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of...
, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
& Healthcare, and Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
.
In 2007, the offices of ICP hosted a speaking panel event entitled "A marriage made in heaven or hell? Do scientists and the media make good bedfellows?"
Selected journals
- Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational BiologyJournal of Bioinformatics and Computational BiologyThe Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology was founded in 2003 and is published by Imperial College Press. The journal covers analysis of cellular information, especially in the technical aspect.- Abstracting and indexing :...
- Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
- International Journal of Innovation ManagementInternational Journal of Innovation ManagementThe International Journal of Innovation Management is the official journal of the International Society of Professional Innovation Management. The journal, founded in 1997, is published by Imperial College Press...
- Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and ManagementJournal of Environmental Assessment Policy and ManagementThe Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal covering policy and decision-making relating to environmental assessment, with the aim of exploring "the horizontal interactions between assessment and aspects of environmental management .....