News Announcements | 2024
March 2024
KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. Expands Smart Review® to Accelerate the Peer Review Process
Part of Smart Suite 3.0® publishing platform, advanced tool automates common peer review tasks to speed up manual processes, preserve editorial quality, and improve author, reviewer, and editor satisfaction. [read more]
February 2024
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Selects KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. for Full-Service Journal Production
Smart Publish® automated workflow enables industry-leading article turnaround times for the publisher’s portfolio of specialist journals, with production management, copyediting, and composition delivered using KGL Smart Suite®. [read more]
January 2024
KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. Joins Benetech's Global Certified Accessible (GCA) Program
A global social enterprise nonprofit, Benetech focuses on providing equitable opportunities for all learners and issues this certification to vendors who produce files that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support the needs of all readers, including those with disabilities and learning differences. [read more]
News Announcements | 2023
June 2023
VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium, Partners with KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. to Develop Open Educational Resources
This innovative partnership ensures the production of high-quality grant-supported open textbooks, open monographs, and other Open Educational Resources (OER) for use in Virginia higher education institutions. [read more]
January 2023
GetFTR welcomes American Meteorological Society and KGL PubFactory as new partners for 2023
KGL PubFactory becomes the latest platform provider to facilitate access to GetFTR as American Meteorological Society (AMS) becomes the first publisher to join GetFTR in 2023. [read more]
April 2023
KGL Advances Author Care and Rapid Publication with the Release of Smart Suite® 3.0
January 2023
CJK Group Acquires Allen Press, Adding a Printing Facility to the Sheridan Family as well as Key Editorial Capabilities to KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
CJK Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed an agreement to acquire the assets of venerable print and publishing services company Allen Press, located in Lawrence, Kansas. This acquisition is unique for CJK Group in that it will supplement and expand services and capabilities to both the Sheridan print operations in addition to its KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) content solutions company. [read more]
News Announcements | 2022
November 2022
Brill Renews Hosting Partnership with KGL PubFactory, Continuing Growth and Enhancement of Publications Site
KGL PubFactory, the online hosting division of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), has announced another longstanding customer contract renewal, this time with international social science publisher, Brill. Having doubled its web business over the past six years, Brill will continue to take advantage of the latest enhancements of the PubFactory platform in an extended relationship. [read more]
June 2022
Bristol University Press Launches New Unified Book and Journal Platform with KGL PubFactory
Bristol University Press, and its imprint Policy Press, have gone live on a new, integrated scholarly portal on the KGL PubFactory platform. Bristol University Press Digital now hosts its full collection of books and journals with global and social impact in a single site, searchable across all content types. [read more]
September 2022
American Accounting Association Selects KGL for Full-Service Journal Production
The American Accounting Association (AAA) has selected KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) to deliver a full-scale production workflow for its journal program, extending its Sheridan print relationship to consolidate copyediting, composition, and author proofing on KGL Smart Suite.[read more]
June 2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Renews Longstanding Relationship with KGL PubFactory, Launches Upgraded Site
KGL PubFactory is pleased to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing has extended its longstanding hosting relationship, which started in 2011, by another five years. The contract renewal is marked by the launch of an upgraded Elgar portal, using the latest version and enhancements of the PubFactory platform. [read more]
News Announcements | 2021
December 2021
American Podiatric Medical Association Selects KGL for Integrated Journal Composition and PubFactory Hosting
APMA has selected KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. and its subsidiary KGL PubFactory to produce and host the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association as part of an integrated publishing workflow. The new journal site has launched this month following a rapid migration to KGL's platforms. [read more]
November 2021
American Veterinary Medical Association Journals Launch on KGL PubFactory
AVMA has launched a new portal on KGL PubFactory for its two influential peer-reviewed journals, the flagship Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) as well as the American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR). [read more]
June 2021
KGL PubFactory Launches New Video Features
SiteGen Module and integration with Cadmore Media platform offer publishers new delivery options and an enhanced user experience, kicking off with innovations from Human Kinetics and Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group. [read more]
February 2021
‘The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’ Launches on KGL PubFactory
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) has launched its flagship journal on KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL)’s PubFactory platform as part of a one-stop production and hosting solution. [read more]
January 2021
American Meteorological Society Journals Launch on KGL PubFactory
The new AMS website hosts all content from the Society’s 11 prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals. Upgraded research portal is part of an enhanced production workflow, to also include self-service author proofing. [read more]
November 2021
KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., a CJK Group Company, Acquires Kaufman Wills Fusting & Company
CJK Group, Inc. announced today that it has acquired publishing consultancy and editorial services provider, Kaufman Wills Fusting & Company (KWF) and integrated it with its existing, comprehensive content solutions subsidiary, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL). [read more]
July 2021
CJK Group Expands the Sheridan Brand to Encompass All CJK Group Company Print Facilities
CJK Group, Inc. has announced that it has rebranded three of its print facilities as Sheridan sites. Bang Printing is now Sheridan Minnesota, Hess Print Solutions is now Sheridan Ohio, and Webcrafters Inc. is now Sheridan Wisconsin. [read more]
May 2021
KGL Consulting Launches 2021 Journal Editorial Compensation Benchmark Study
Change is accelerating across our industry—and nowhere has the effect been more profound than in journal editorial offices. Are you following best practices in terms of editor compensation and responsibilities? Our Editorial Compensation Longitudinal Benchmark Study can provide you with data-driven answers to these and other questions that are crucial for setting editorial strategy. [read more]
March 2021
Bristol University Press Selects KGL PubFactory for Unified Book and Journal Platform
Bristol University Press, and its imprint Policy Press, have chosen KGL PubFactory to build its first unified hosting platform. The prestigious UK academic publisher is seeking to aggregate delivery of its book and journal programs as it embarks on a period of significant business growth and expanded international reach. [read more]
February 2021
American Veterinary Medical Association Selects KGL PubFactory
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has chosen KGL PubFactory to build a new hosting platform for its two peer reviewed journals, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) and the American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR). [read more]
February 2021
ASHP Launches New Publications Portal on KGL PubFactory
The new site hosts all of ASHP’s (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) available ebooks, offering pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians the full range of ASHP’s authoritative clinical, educational, and drug information resources on a state-of-the-art platform. [read more]
News Announcements | 2020
September 2020
CJK Group Acquires Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning, Forms KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
CJK Group, Inc. announced today that it has acquired content services business Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning from Cenveo Worldwide Limited, and will be merging them with its own content business Sheridan Journal Services and hosting platform Sheridan PubFactory to form KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL). [read more]
July 2020
American Meteorological Society Expands Agreement with Sheridan and Adopts New Workflow Solution that Integrates Production and Online Hosting
The new 5-year agreement between AMS and Sheridan, beginning in 2021, adds automated XML composition, web-based author proofing, and a fully integrated online hosting platform to the long-standing production and print services provided by Sheridan. [read more]
February 2020
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics celebrates its 100th anniversary and launches a new publications platform with Sheridan PubFactory
NCTM reaches a major milestone in turning 100 and achieves a strategic goal of bringing all of their books and journals onto a single, integrated online reading platform. [read more]
January 2020
Akadémiai Kiadó grows their Open Access program and relaunches its 60+ journals on PubFactory
Akadémiai Kiadó has moved the whole of their AKJournals program—60+ peer-reviewed STM titles—onto Sheridan PubFactory’s online hosting platform as they pursue continued growth in Open Access and Open Science initiatives. [read more]
August 2020
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Consolidates Production and Online Hosting with Sheridan
Sheridan’s unique offering integrates the production and online hosting stages, eliminating the traditional hand-off between the composition vendor and a third party online hosting platform to further accelerate the publishing process. [read more]
June 2020
ASHP chooses Sheridan’s editorial, composition, print, and online hosting services for their robust book program
Sheridan began managing ASHP’s composition, editorial services, and print production in January, and the new hosting platform is scheduled to launch archival and new content this summer, allowing ASHP to expand its book program output and create new products from existing ASHP content repositories. [read more]
June 2020
Sheridan and Scholarly iQ to launch PubFactory Reporting and Business Intelligence Platform
This addition to its expanding network of partner associations enables the launch of a dedicated Reporting and Business Intelligence Platform for PubFactory, offering the opportunity for PubFactory publishers to gain important insights into how and where their content is used. [read more]
February 2020
2019 Marked Significant Growth and Success for Sheridan PubFactory
PubFactory’s customer base has more than doubled since it was acquired by Sheridan in 2017; and 2019 saw many important achievements for the business unit. [read more]