Professional Association Streamlines Publishing Operations

Non-profit Publisher Outsources Production Process as Part of Single-source Publishing Solution

Challenge

Over the years, a leading professional association has forged an impeccable reputation as a major publisher of books, journals and databases. While the association's primary mission continues to be to advance the chemical sciences in Europe, publishing is an important means to that end, funding some three-fourths of the society's overall charitable spending.

As a publisher of more than a dozen scientific journals, 40 books and other publications, the association also finds itself in the same competitive landscape as major commercial publishers. The society is under constant pressure to find more cost effective ways to deliver content to its audiences and improve revenue from its publishing operations...