Atlantis Press

What Atlantis Press does

Atlantis Press is an open-access publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) content, founded in Paris in 2006 and operating since March 2021 as a subsidiary of Springer Nature. The company publishes three core product lines: conference and workshop proceedings published as series volumes, peer-reviewed STM journals, and academic books (monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks) co-published with Springer Nature and distributed via the Springer Link platform. Its content platform hosts more than 140,000 open-access articles and 25 million-plus downloads annually, and the corpus is indexed in Scopus, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, DOAJ, and Clarivate with content metadata registered through Crossref.

Underlying technology centers on a digital publishing platform with standardized article metadata, semantic web applications for content linking and discovery, content-metrics analytics, and open-archive compliance; the company runs the Meteor online submission system for conference partners and has adopted the Editorial Manager system from Aries Systems for journals, alongside iThenticate for plagiarism checking and ORCID for author identification. Atlantis Press earns revenue primarily through Article Publication Charges (APCs) paid by authors upon acceptance, book co-publishing with Springer Nature (one-time licensing on Springer Link), and fee-based publishing services and consultancy delivered through its Amsterdam subsidiary to third-party STM content owners such as learned societies and universities. Primary customer segments are the global STM research community, learned societies, academic institutions, and society-at-large readers of open-access scientific content; offices are maintained in Dordrecht (Netherlands), Paris (France), Zhengzhou, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

Name

Atlantis Press

Legal name

Atlantis Press SARL

Website

https://atlantis-press.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Atlantis Press is an open-access STM publisher offering proceedings, journals, and books, now operating as a subsidiary of Springer Nature. It serves authors, learned societies, universities, and the global research community via APCs, co-publishing, and publishing services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Article Publication Charges (APC): Authors pay non-refundable Article Publication Charges for publication of their articles in Atlantis Press journals and proceedings. Payment must be made within the stipulated period on the invoice.
2. Book Publishing: Academic research monographs, edited volumes and textbooks co-published with Springer Nature and available on the Springer Link platform
3. Publishing Services: Publishing services provided to third-party STM content owners such as learned societies and universities, including journal publishing services and consultancy services

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Atlantis Press publishes open access scientific, technical and medical (STM) content across three core product lines: conference/workshop Proceedings published as volumes in a series, peer-reviewed Journals in major STM disciplines, and academic Books (monographs, edited volumes, textbooks) co-published with Springer Nature. Authors pay non-refundable Article Publication Charges (APCs) to publish in journals and proceedings, while the company also sells publishing services and consultancy to learned societies and universities through its Atlantis Press International B.V. subsidiary. Manuscript handling is supported by the Meteor submission system and the Aries Systems Editorial Manager workflow.

Product overview

Atlantis Press is an open access publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) content offering three core product lines: Proceedings (conference proceedings published as volumes in a series, open access and indexed), Journals (peer-reviewed STM journals, open access and indexed with COPE/TOP adherence), and Books (academic monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks co-published with Springer Nature). The company also provides publishing services through its Meteor platform for manuscript submission and review. The entire portfolio of over 140,000 articles is freely accessible on their content platform, generating more than 25 million downloads per year.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Proceedings

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 25 million downloads annually from open access content
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (FAHZU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 June 2020Atlantis Press signed a contract with FAHZU to provide publishing services for their new journal Intensive Care Research (ICRES). This is the 2nd partnership journal from China in the Atlantis Press portfolio.
• Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology (ARTERY)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 September 2019Atlantis Press signed an agreement with ARTERY to publish their official journal Artery Research. The journal transferred from its current publisher Elsevier effective immediately.
• Springer NatureflagshipOthersAtlantis Press was acquired by Springer Nature in March 2021. Springer Nature is the largest STM open access publisher and largest STM books publisher in the world. Atlantis Press books are co-published with Springer Nature and available on the Springer Link platform.
• STM AssociationcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerAtlantis Press is a member of the STM Association, the world's leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers with over 170 members in more than 20 countries.
• Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerAtlantis Press is a member of SSP, a non-profit organization promoting and advancing communication among all sectors of the scholarly publishing community.
• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerAtlantis Press became an Associate Member of ALPSP, an international membership trade body supporting not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content.
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAtlantis Press adheres to COPE principles and guidelines for publication ethics across all publication types.
• Aries SystemscoreTechnology or IntegrationAtlantis Press adopted Editorial Manager, the industry-leading cloud-based manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system for scholarly journals, reference works, books and other publications.
• COUNTERcoreTechnology or IntegrationAtlantis Press is a registered member of COUNTER, the organization providing standards for counting usage of electronic resources in a consistent, credible and comparable way.
• Atlantis Press International B.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA subsidiary company focused on the provision of journals publishing services and consultancy services to third-party STM journal owners. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands and headed by Remco de Boer (former Executive Publisher at Elsevier) as CEO.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/atlantis-press

Compliance3 records

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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