Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that Oxbow Books will be transferring its journal publishing operation to Maney, effective from 2013. Primarily a publisher of books, Oxbow Books is a publisher, distributor and retail bookseller for everything on archaeology, prehistory, the Classical world, the Middle Ages, Egyptology, Near Eastern studies, and related environmental and heritage topics.
Maney benefits from Oxbow's reach to core markets for the books and series it publishes on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund and the British Archaeological Association.
Recognising Maney's success in building an international portfolio of journals, Oxbow Books has licensed three of its journals - Landscapes, the Journal of Wetland Archaeology and Childhood in the Past – to Maney so that they achieve full exposure to a global, institutional library market and can be sold flexibly within the MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Archaeology & Heritage and History collections. Both companies have grown as a result of collaborative and cooperative business models, working with societies, professional organisations and institutes to provide a viable route to market.
