Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press was founded in 1933 to aid in
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's purpose of furthering the advance and spread of scientific knowledge.
CSHL Press publishes monographs, technical manuals, handbooks, review volumes, conference proceedings, scholarly journals and videotapes. These examine important topics in molecular biology, genetics, development, virology, neurobiology, immunology and cancer biology. Manuscripts for books and for journal publication are invited from scientists worldwide.
Revenue from sales of CSHL Press publications is used solely in support of research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Journals
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.
Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...
s published by CSHL Press:
* ''Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies''
* ''Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology''
* ''Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine''
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Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
''Cold Spring Harbor Protocols'' (formerly ''CSH Protocols'') is an on-line scientific journal and methods database for biologists, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Protocols are presented step-by-step and edited in the style that ...
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Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
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Genes & Development
''Genes & Development'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering molecular biology, molecular genetics, cell biology, and development. It was established in 1987 and is published twice monthly by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in associa ...
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Genome Research
''Genome Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Disregarding review journals, Genome Research ranks 2nd in the category 'Genetics and Genomics' after Nature Genetics. The focus of the jou ...
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Learning & Memory
''Learning & Memory'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the neurobiology of learning and memory. It was established in 1994 and is published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. The editor-in-chief is John H. Byrne (Univers ...
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Life Science Alliance
''Life Science Alliance'' is a peer-reviewed, open access and not-for-profit journal for the biomedical and life sciences. EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press jointly established the journal in 201 ...
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RNA
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Monographs
The Cold Spring Harbor Press monograph series is a series of advanced comprehensive volumes giving the state of the art on the most important
model organisms
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and systems for research in molecular biology. The series began in 1970 with ''The Lactose Operon'' edited by
David Zipser
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and
Jonathan Beckwith
Operation centers
CSHL Press has two operation centers. The main office is located in
Woodbury, New York, near Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where editorial, marketing & advertising, composition, and fulfillment & distribution functions are performed. An additional book fulfillment & distribution operation is handled by NBN International in
Plymouth
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United Kingdom
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. Its current executive director is John R. Inglis.
References
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