AAAS Science Special Collections Launch Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct™ | The Sheridan Group

Hunt Valley, MD – Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct™, introduced to the publishing community last year, is now an active feature of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's flagship publication, Science online.

Introduced with the October 2, 2009 issue of Science, AAAS's custom publishing option features several publisher-compiled collections of important new research about early human evolution. This groundbreaking research is being made available to AAAS readership for research or educational purposes, via links on the site that initiate custom print or electronic orders.

With Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct™, selected articles can be compiled and produced to suit the reader's need – print copies of a custom journal or a secure electronic version – via a straightforward e-commerce system.

Sheridan's Custom Publishing system has several key advantages:

• The easy-to-use interface lets users search and select directly from multiple points of content.
• New content is immediately available to readership.
• Publisher-compiled collections (such as the AAAS collections mentioned above) can be offered to purchasers to actively market important content.

Whether the publisher prepares special collections or permits their readers to compose their own custom publications from available articles on the publisher site or online host repository, employing the Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct™ solution extends the life and revenue potential of essential copyrighted content.

The Sheridan Group, located in Hunt Valley, MD, is comprised of six printing companies based in the United States. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of a full range of printing and publishing services to publishers, associations, and university presses.