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 CSHL Press
1997 was a year of extensive change for the Press and it ended with much improvement in organizational efficiency, technical expertise, and financial performance.
The Cold Spring Harbor journals, Genes & Development, Genome Research, and Learning & Memory all gained ground in 1997, with record circulation, more published papers, higher impact factors, booming advertising sales, and increased visibility. There were new faces among the principal editors of all three journals, and the scope and the mix of articles in the journals broadened. Most notably, online editions of Genes & Development and Genome Research were created. These offered the entire contents of each issue via the Internet in a fully searchable format with links to other electronic resources such as Medline. Initially, these editions were made available free of charge, with the intention of providing the electronic subscription only to print subscribers until the impact of this development on the journals' circulation and revenues could be assessed. Learning & Memory received a generous grant from the Donaldson Charitable Trust that will support the development of its electronic edition in 1998.
A total of 18 new books were published in 1997, double the previous year's total. They included three of the most complex and colorful volumes ever to originate from the Laboratory: the remarkable laboratory manual Cells, by David Spector, Bob Goldman, and Leslie Leinwand; Retroviruses, by John Coffin, Steve Hughes, and Harold Varmus, a textbook for a community of scientists and physicians given dramatic prominence by HIV-induced disease; and Mutants of Maize, by Gerry Neuffer, Ed Coe, and Sue Wessler, an encyclopedic account of the extraordinary genetic diversity of corn, which was recognized as one of the three Best Books of the Year in Biology by the American Association of Publishers. These and the other new titles, such as the commanding Symposium volume on nervous system function, combined with the continued strength of classics such as Molecular Cloning and Antibodies to produce an increase of over 12% in book sales.
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