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ChronosHub has chosen The Charlesworth Group to represent them in China. Charlesworth's dedicated national sales team is well placed to represent ChronosHub with their deep insight into bringing publishing solutions for universities to market in China.

This webinar will discuss the growth of APC funded open access publishing, the development of new local open access journals, and moves by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) towards a transformative model. 

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have signed the largest transformational open access (OA) publishing agreement in China to date. As a local third-party representing the specific requirements of ACM and CAS, The Charlesworth Group helped facilitate this transformational open access agreement for ACM in China.

Building upon the success of the World Microbe Forum, an international meeting hosted by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), in collaboration with 8 other microbiological societies, ASM continues to expand its global footprint by partnering with the Charlesworth Group to establish a WeChat account that will broaden the reach and accessibility of ASM Journals in China. With the goal of fostering this international community of microbiologists, research published in ASM Journals will be translated to Chinese and promoted on a biweekly basis on WeChat, a Chinese multi-purpose messaging and social media platform.

The Charlesworth Gateway is a dedicated platform that creates an enhanced experience for authors, by integrating STM publishing tools into WeChat. Charlesworth’s unique platform has now successfully integrated Researcher app, delivering personalised notifications to Researcher’s China-based users. 

Researcher has over two million users around the world, who engage with over 18,000 peer-reviewed journals, preprints, conference proceedings and industry content on the app. With over 25% of their users based in China, the ability to receive regular notifications through WeChat will help these researchers to monitor the latest research articles they need to read. Through this intuitive functionality, Charlesworth aims to increase Researcher’s China-based users’ use of, and engagement with, the Researcher app. 

The Academy of Management have exclusively partnered with Charlesworth Author Services to provide English language editing services for their authors from peer review to publication.

The Charlesworth Group renews and expands its partnership for China sales representation with seven major publishers

IOP Publishing recently partnered with The Charlesworth Group to integrate their article tracking feature into WeChat via the Charlesworth Gateway.

Our case study outlines how the integration was achieved within four weeks to provide an improved user experience for authors in China. 

Future Science Group, has chosen The Charlesworth Group for their WeChat Account Management solution. The Charlesworth Group is the leading sales and marketing agency specialising in providing digital marketing and social media services to STM publishers in China. Charlesworth’s dedicated team is made up of experienced digital marketing specialists, who have expert knowledge of launching and developing new WeChat accounts in the STM space. Charlesworth will support Future Science Group in creating a dedicated author community within WeChat for their China-based authors.

The Charlesworth Group is excited to announce a new strategic partnership in China with Researcher.

Under this partnership, The Charlesworth Group will provide Researcher with a package of digital marketing support services, market insight and advertising sales collaboration to support the growth of Researcher app in China. Researcher has over 1.8m users, with 30% of the active userbase s in China and is looking to accelerate its growth rate in this market.

The Charlesworth Group is pleased to announce that IOP Publishing’s (IOPP) article tracking feature ‘track my article’ has been integrated into WeChat using its proprietary WeChat Gateway product. 

LONDON: 9th November 2020: One of the leading publishers in health sciences, Karger Publishers, has chosen The Charlesworth Group for their WeChat Account Management solution. 

WeChat Account Management is delivered and managed by The Charlesworth Group's Beijing-based digital marketing team. It will enable Karger Publishers to deepen their existing connection with their health sciences communities in China by providing localised and tailored content within a Karger-branded WeChat environment. 

Leading open access publisher Hindawi has extended their partnership with The Charlesworth Group to include digital author marketing in China. 

The services provided by The Charlesworth Group form part of a holistic package of solutions across the entire publication journey to support Hindawi’s author engagement strategy in China. Through this partnership, The Charlesworth Group are now providing Hindawi with comprehensive digital marketing, including a new Chinese website and search marketing campaigns. Charlesworth have provided WeChat account management services and media monitoring to Hindawi since early 2018 and have recently begun offering Hindawi authors optional expert editing services through Charlesworth Author Services.

London, September 2020: Portland Press Limited has partnered with Charlesworth Author Services to provide Portland Press’ global biosciences author community with English language editing and publication support services through English and Chinese local-language web portals. Portland Press is the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society and publishes both journals and books in cellular and molecular life sciences.  Charlesworth currently provide Portland Press with sales representation in China.

Discover and understand the impact of the Chinese research evaluation changes and why the impact factor may no longer be so important.

In response to the rapid growth of the Chinese scholarly publishing market, The Charlesworth Group and Aries Systems have partnered to integrate the WeChat Gateway platform with Aries' Editorial Manager. Join Charlesworth and Aries for a Q&A style webinar as we discuss how publishers can improve the way they engage with Chinese authors.

LONDON: 29th June 2020: ICE Publishing has chosen China experts The Charlesworth Group for their WeChat Account Management solution. The relationship was established eight years ago with sales representation in China and since 2018 Charlesworth has provided editorial and publication support services to ICE Publishing authors. 

The Charlesworth Group are delighted to announce that the Charlesworth WeChat Gateway has been shorlisted as one of the finalists for the prestigious 2020 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. Applications for the award were open to any new development, product, service or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. The Charlesworth WeChat Gateway submission aimed to demonstate originality and innovation, significance and value to the STM publishing community, utility and long-term viability.

LONDON May 2020: The Royal Society of Chemistry has selected The Charlesworth Group to provide English language editing and publication support services in Chinese and English local language as part of an exclusive, enhanced service to their science community. 

London 8th June 2020: Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions supplier to the scholarly publishing community, is pleased to announce their partnership with The Charlesworth Group.