Elsevier partners with Peking University

Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its publishing partnership with Peking University. Under the agreement, Elsevier will publish the Proceedings of the Beijing Forum from 2004 to 2008 in Procedia.

Procedia is Elsevier's e-only product dedicated to publishing high quality conference proceedings. Procedia enables fast dissemination so conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on ScienceDirect, which will then be made freely available worldwide.

Initiated in 2004, the aim of the Beijing Forum is to promote the study of humanities and social sciences globally.

Mr. Guoyou Zhang, Vice President of Peking University, commented, "We are very pleased that Elsevier will publish the Proceedings of the Beijing Forum. The new publishing arrangement with Elsevier will enable the Proceedings to reach a wider audience throughout the world and help the global recognition of the forum."

Martin Tanke, Managing Director, Elsevier S&T Journal Publishing, added, "Peking University's Social Science program is internationally renowned, and as a leading publisher in social science, partnering with them is just one of the ways we are helping to foster research in China."

Hugo Zhang, Managing Director of Elsevier S&T China noted, "We are very proud to be able to work the Beijing Forum and are delighted to further strengthen our partnership with Peking University, where we have an established author workshop program and more than 30 faculty members sit on the editorial boards of journals we publish."

Source: Elsevier