Partners with the research community
Progress through partnership - Taylor & Francis has long understood one of the basic principles of scholarly communication - that we prosper when we provide publishing services that advance and improve communication of the results of the research process. We have made our publishing partners' publications sustainable through significant financial support over the decades, via payments of editorial and administrative expenses, royalties and profit shares where appropriate, donations of prizes and awards, and support for attendance at academic and practitioner conferences, seminars and workshops.
Advancing information about research development - We believe in launching innovative new journals which help nascent research groups mature into established communities. Our lineage begins with Philosophical Magazine in 1798 and runs through Journal of Natural History in 1841 and International Journal of Remote Sensing in 1980, to the award-winning Jazz Perspectives in 2007. Where possible, our launches are in partnership with learned societies, to maximise engagement with the community.
World class author services - Our aim is to create a satisfying and efficient author experience - and, in the process, to promote more effective scholarly communication. We have invested in ScholarOne Manuscripts and CATS to reduce refereeing and publication times, and continue to innovate with accelerated production workflows and standard Rapid Publication Online. Many of our Science and Engineering journals now publish copy-edited, typeset articles within six weeks of receipt, and some as quickly as three weeks. We have a dedicated website and internal team who look after the needs of our authors.
Our policies are scholarship-friendly, allowing authors to retain their own copyrights where they wish to, to use articles for teaching purposes, and to post pre-prints and post-prints in institutional repositories and on departmental websites. We are experimenting with variable posting embargos to ensure the sustainabilty of our publications, and providing author article electronic deposit services to an increasing range of bodies, such as the NIH and The World Bank, so that authors can comply with funder mandates.
We offer a broad range of author options, enabling authors if they so wish to publish their material in Open Access journals which have good reputational factors in their communities and a high degree of peer review integrity.
We enable time-limited free access to our journals for emerging researchers to ensure that they have access to key current literature under our STAR programme.
Trust in peer review - Despite heated debate over many long years, peer review is still the Gold Standard of quality research. We have introduced Peer Review declarations for our journals to show authors our commitment to robust refereeing. We will shortly be introducing the Cross-Mark stamp demonstrating our stewardship of peer review integrity and designator of the version of record.
What should I do next?
We are always happy to discuss new publishing partnerships. To learn more about transforming your journal with Taylor & Francis, contact:
David Green, Global Journals Publishing Director
'A history of Taylor & Francis is a history in microcosm of a very important aspect of science - how scientists make known to each other and to the wider public what they are doing and the results they achieve.'
Sir Nevill Mott
Nobel Laureate in Physics 1977,
Chairman of Taylor & Francis (1970-1975)
and President of Taylor & Francis (1975-1997)
