About GSW
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 46 preeminent scholarly journals, 2,120+ 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. Since 2005, GSW has returned more than $38 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
Alix Vance
CEO/Executive Director
vance@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851
Christopher Straub
COO/Deputy Executive Director
straub@geoscienceworld.org
P: 800-341-1851
M: 703-855-4798
Brett Rubinstein
Chief Commercial Officer
rubinstein@geoscienceworld.org
Angie Anderson
Director of Human Resources, Administration, and Legal
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
Our Board of Directors
Richard Hughes - ChairExecutive Secretary
Geological Society of London
Eugene Rankey - Treasurer
Hubert H. and Kathleen M. Hall Professor of Geology
Department of Geology
University of Kansas
Paul Cleverley - Secretary
Visiting Professor of Information Science & Technology
Researcher and Corporate Consultant
Robert Gordon University
Brian Hoal
Executive Director
Society of Economic Geologists
Matt Hudson
Publications Manager
Geological Society of America
Christopher Keane
Director of Communications and Technology
American Geosciences Institute
Anna Salt Troise
Chief Education Strategist
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Colin P. North
Senior Lecturer in Petroleum Geology
University of Aberdeen
Linda Musser
Distinguished Librarian and Head Earth and Mineral Sciences Library
The Pennsylvania State University
Ann Benbow
Incoming Executive Director
Mineralogical Society of America
