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.
Our Core Values
We are a values-driven organization, guided by our mission to deliver exceptional products and services creating lasting value and positive impact for our community.
How do we do this?
Listen
We listen with an open mind so new ideas can come forward and flourish.
Respond
We respond with curiosity, purpose, and transparency in dialog with our community.
Collaborate
We collaborate with integrity, leading by example to build trusted partnerships.
Innovate
We innovate with an agile mindset, turning ideas into action.
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๏ฌt aggregate and to convey cooperative advantagesโso 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 $59.4 million to membership societies to achieve their scientific missions.
39
Society Publishers
2.4k
eBooks
4.6m
GeoRef Records
53
Journals
213k
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:
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.
Get to Know GSW
GSW was founded as the collective vision of seven independent publishers, and we’ve since grown to encompass 39 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. There are many people and organizations that make GSW what we are today.
GSW Publishers
History of Earth Sciences Society
Societa Geologica Italiana
GSW Staff
Phoebe
McMellon
CEO
GSW Board of Directors
CHAIR
Colin P.
North
University of Aberdeen
vICE CHAIR
Linda
Musser
The Pennsylvania State University
SECRETARY
Bridgette
Moore
Geological Society of America
TREASURER
Anna
Salt Troise
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
MEMBER
Ann
Benbow
Mineralogical Society of America
MEMBER
Howard
Harper
SEPM – Society for Sedimentary Geology
MEMBER
Richard
Hughes
Geological Society of London
MEMBER
Nathan
Suurmeyer
Xeek
MEMBER
Sharon
Tahirkheli
MEMBER
Zhiming
Yang
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
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