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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 and AIP Publishing have renewed their partnership where Charlesworth provides exclusive language editing services on behalf of AIP Publishing. These services, available to all authors in the scientific community, are delivered as a white-label solution and are offered on both English and Chinese-language sites.

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.

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.

This case study will discuss how Dove Medical Press Ltd uses Charlesworth’s proprietary platform WeChat Gateway to deepen its author experience and increase communication and satisfaction levels amongst its Chinese authors, while delivering efficiencies for the publisher. 

LONDON 28th May 2020: The Charlesworth Group continues their partnership with The American Phytopathological Society (APS) to provide English language editing and publication support services to APS authors around the world, with local language support in Chinese and English. APS already has an existing relationship with The Charlesworth Group who have provided China sales representation to APS since 2012 and adding language editing and support services will elavate support for their author community in China. 

LONDON 18^th May 2020: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s oldest and largest scientific computing society, has partnered with The Charlesworth Group to expand the benefits of the ACM OPEN “read and publish” Open Access (OA) licensing model in China.  

LONDON 6^TH April 2020: Charlesworth Author Services is delighted to announce a new partnership with Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to provide English language editing and publication support services to SIAM’s global research community, 

LONDON 10^th March 2020: The Charlesworth Group has been appointed as the sales representative in China for Cabells, The Whitelist and The Blacklist subscription databases.

LONDON December 18 2019: The Charlesworth Group celebrates its 20^th anniversary helping academics and scholarly publishers as the market-leading experts in China. 

LONDON: 12th December 2019 The Charlesworth Group extends the scope of its WeChat account management service for Dove Medical Press Ltd, part of the Taylor and Francis Group, with the launch of a new WeChat mini-program, designed to help Dove increase engagement with its Chinese author community. 

The Charlesworth Group expands and strengthens its Senior Management team with the appointment of Jason De Boer and Yuchong Zhang. Jason joins as Business Development Director for Charlesworth Author Services and Yuchong takes up the newly created role of Sales Director for China. 

The Charlesworth Group is delighted to announce that IFIS have selected the Charlesworth WeChat Account Management Service.