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GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Earth Sciences. GSW works with societies, institutions, and researchers around the world and provides a single source of access to 49 preeminent scholarly journals, 2,200+ eBooks, and over 4 million GeoRef records with specialized and map-based search capabilities and links to curated earth science research around the Web. Through its Society Services Program, GSW also serves as a platform for cost-effective hosting for independent society sites, providing a scalable and efficient global presence for societies, authors, and members. With the re-launch of the journal Lithosphere, GSW expanded its expertise into open access publishing in alliance with seven participating societies. Since 2005, GSW has returned more than $43 million to membership societies to achieve their scientific missions.

Our Mission

To be a comprehensive, widely-accessible, easy to use, integrated, and cost-effective online resource for research materials in the geological and Earth sciences;
To operate independently and not for profit, with policies and practices that respect and support the needs of publishers, authors, educators, researchers, and librarians;
To respond effectively to evolving research, presentation, education, and technology opportunities in the electronic information age for the creation, maintenance, operation, dissemination, and preservation of geoscience information and interactive facilities;
To protect the viability and independence of society publishing programs while constantly exploring and incorporating valuable economic and strategic benefits of collaboration.

Our Vision

Our vision, as nonprofit collaborative, is to lead by advancing and promoting geoscience information for researchers and their societies. We will identify and meet emerging demands for digital services and will seek innovative methods for sharing knowledge among a growing global audience. We will continue to add high-quality scholarship and interactive capabilities to our research platforms and to develop tools that improve resource discovery and use, in order to support the work of next generations of geoscientists.

Founding Organizations

American Association of Petroleum Geologists • American Geosciences Institute • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of London • Mineralogical Society of America • Society for Sedimentary Geology • Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Our Staff

Phoebe McMellon
CEO
P: 800-341-1851

Christopher Straub
COO
straub@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851

Angie Anderson
Director of Human Resources, Administration, and Legal
anderson@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851

Lauren Comi
Circulation and Customer Service Manager
comi@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-905-5832

Christy Iredell
National Sales Director
iredell@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851

Marc Segers
Director of Publishing Technologies
segers@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851

Alistair Reece
Product Manager
reece@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851

Helen Cooke
Sales Manager UK/Europe
cooke@geoscienceworld.org
P: +44 7824 552322

Adrian Vigil
Accounting/Customer Service Representative
vigil@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851

Our Board of Directors

Richard Hughes - Chair
Executive Secretary
Geological Society of London

Colin P. North - Vice-chair
Senior Lecturer in Petroleum Geology
University of Aberdeen

Anna Salt Troise - Treasurer
Chief Education Strategist
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Paul Cleverley - Secretary
Founder, Infoscience Technologies Ltd
Visiting Professor of Information Science & Technology Robert Gordon University

Ann Benbow
Executive Director
Mineralogical Society of America

Howard Harper
Executive Director
SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology

Brian Hoal
Executive Director
Society of Economic Geologists

Matt Hudson
Director of Publications, Communications, and Marketing
Entomological Society of America

Christopher Keane
Director of Communications and Technology
American Geosciences Institute

Linda Musser
Distinguished Librarian and Head Earth and Mineral Sciences Library
The Pennsylvania State University

Our Publishers

AASP - The Palynological Society • American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) • Pacific Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists • Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists • Cambridge University Press • Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum • Canadian Science Publishing • Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists • Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research • E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Science Publishers • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute • Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society • European Association for Geochemistry • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of London • Geological Society of South Africa • Gulf PetroLink • Micropaleontology Project • Mineralogical Association of Canada • Mineralogical Society of America • Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland • Novosibirsk State University • Paleontological Society • Seismological Society of America • SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology • Società Geologica Italiana • Société Géologique de France • Society of Economic Geologists • Society of Exploration Geophysicists • Soil Science Society of America • University of Wyoming

Our Initial Sponsors

Major Sponsor: AGI Foundation
Founding Sponsors: ExxonMobil Exploration • Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin ConocoPhillips • Saudi Aramco • Shell
Other Sponsors: AAPG Foundation • Anonymous • EOG • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of America Foundation • Priority Oil & Gas • Rocky Mountain Geology, University of Wyoming • SEPM Foundation Inc • Stanford University Libraries • The Geological Society of London • Veritas DGC Inc.