Speaking for the IIC, Director of Publications Joyce Townsend announced at IIC’s AGM, held on Wednesday 19th January 2011: “I am pleased to welcome our new publishing partner, Maney Publishing, chosen for their professionalism and responsiveness in supporting societies as represented by their editors, reviewers and authors. Maney will provide a range of online publishing processes which will make it easier for both members and non-member readers around the world to find and use research results and to access the latest thinking on conservation, in our current and past publications.”
Studies in Conservation, the IIC’s flagship quarterly journal will be published by Maney Publishing from the start of 2012, where for the first time it will publish online (via IngentaConnect) as well as in full colour in print. One of the pre-eminent scholarly journals in conservation since its launch in 1956, and the only one in print which is fully cited, Studies in Conservation has continued to provide researchers and cultural heritage practitioners with novel results and significant thinking. Together with the recently incorporated Reviews in Conservation, published annually in print only by IIC 2000–10, the journal covers advances in conservation practice, novel methods of treatment, preventative conservation, issues of collection care, conservation history and ethics, examination methods for works of art, new research in the analysis of materials or mechanisms of deterioration, and conservation issues in display and storage.
In coming years Maney will digitise and make available to both IIC members and institutional subscribers the entire published archive of Studies and Reviews, with improved online search facilities.
IIC also publishes a long running and successful series of biennial conference proceedings that shall in future be integrated within the Journal to facilitate online access. News in Conservation, IIC's full-colour newspaper reporting opinion, stories, features, interviews and other articles as well as IIC Council and regional group news, and conference listings will be distributed quarterly alongside Studies.
Maney’s Business Development Manager, Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, said: “We are very excited to be working with IIC in a creative and mutually rewarding partnership. The Institute brings a top ranking journal and wealth of excellent content. We have a strong company tradition of partnering with membership organisations such as IIC and with this association we see lots of opportunity within a long term commitment to invest in and achieve the modernisation and innovations that these excellent publications deserve.”
Maney Publishing claims to be uniquely placed to offer IIC’s publications a strong sales platform with critical mass and global market reach in the two key areas that form its intersecting markets. One of Maney’s core subjects is heritage, best illustrated in its MORE Archaeology & Heritage E-journal Collection which is comprised of 20 titles including Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites.
Complementing this is Maney’s depth of publishing in materials science (as publishers of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM) portfolio of journals). A recently published special issue of Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology (Volume 45, number 5, 2010), for instance, bridges the gap between restoration workshops and scientific laboratories for the improvement of the preservation of ancient materials and demonstrates the cross-fertilisation of ideas between research communities that may be facilitated through these alliances.
