About GSW

A unique nonprofit committed to earth science research

Our vision is to be the essential resource for and partner to the earth and planetary science community, advancing knowledge, discovery, and insights for all.

As a unique nonprofit collaborative, our mission is to aggregate and disseminate information to advance earth science and to strengthen the sustainability of our society partners.

Founded in Collaboration

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) was founded in 2004 with a mission to enable geoscience societies to better serve their discipline and community through collaboration. The goal of our co-founders was to bring together peer-reviewed society research online in a nonpro๏ฌt aggregate and to convey cooperative advantagesโ€”so that smaller organizations would be uplifted and supported by their larger colleagues. 

Today, we work with societies, institutions, and researchers around the world and provide a single source of access to preeminent scholarly journals and eBooks with specialized and map-based search capabilities and links to a broad scope of curated Earth Science research.

Through our Society Services program, we provide innovative products and shared services to help societies reduce costs and increase efficiency. Recently, GSW expanded its expertise into open-access publishing in alliance with seven participating societies. Since our founding in 2004, GSW has returned more than $59.6 million to membership societies to achieve their scientific missions.

37

Society Publishers

2.3k

eBooks

4.5m

GeoRef Records

53

Journals

210k

Articles

A Unique Nonprofit 

GSW’s founding societies envisioned a means to provide shared technologies, economies of scale, and access to global dissemination and institutional sales in order to extend advantages that otherwise might be restricted to commercial deals, which they believed might jeopardize societies’ long-term prospects as independent publishers.

What makes us successful:

  • A founding vision of a nonpro๏ฌt aggregate to bene๏ฌt both small and large geoscience societies and the geoscience research community
  • A business model that contributes more than 90% of earnings back to societies
  • An unbiased, independent staff with a mission to sustain all partners
  • Board representation from libraries, industry, the research community, and both small and large societies, all of whom support the founding mission
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at GSW

At GSW, we celebrate and support geoscientists around the world.  Diversity and inclusion are central to our mission to provide high-quality geoscience information for a global research community.  We are committed to developing and advancing a culture of belonging where all individuals are treated with kindness, dignity and respect. We believe this directly aligns with our mission and best meets the needs of our people, partners, and the global geoscience community we serve.

“Only by better understanding the historical process of the earthโ€™s evolution can we predict its future changes more accurately.”
Liu Zhifei
Section Editor, Lithosphere

Get to Know GSW

GSW was founded as the collective vision of seven independent publishers, and we’ve since grown to encompass 37 diverse Earth Science societies. Since our founding, GSW’s dedicated staff has continued to grow and evolve, with our rotating Board of Directors keeping us focused on that founding mission. These are many people and organizations that make GSW what we are today.

GSW Publishers

GSW Founding Organizations

GSW Staff

GSW Board of Directors

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