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| Kew Publishing | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kew Publishing |
| Parent | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | London |
| Publications | Books, monographs, field guides |
| Topics | Botany, horticulture, conservation |
Kew Publishing
Kew Publishing is the specialist publishing arm associated with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, producing botanical and horticultural titles aimed at researchers, practitioners and the public. It issues floras, monographs, field guides and illustrated works that connect to global plant science, conservation and museum collections. The imprint contributes to taxonomic literature, conservation assessments and outreach linked to collections, herbaria and living collections.
Founded in 2007 as an in-house imprint linked to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and its long history of botanical exploration, the publisher built on precedents set by botanical societies and institutions such as the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, the Natural History Museum and the British Museum. Early projects drew on collaborations with institutions including the Royal Horticultural Society, the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland and the Global Tree Specialist Group. Notable historical connections encompass expeditions and figures associated with Kew collections such as Joseph Banks, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, and reflect ties with botanical gardens and herbaria at institutions like the New York Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Australian National Herbarium.
The imprint publishes monographs, identification guides, floras, checklists and illustrated volumes that align with works from publishing traditions exemplified by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press and University of Chicago Press. Series often feature taxonomic treatments comparable to those in publications by the International Plant Names Index, the Flora of China project, the Flora Neotropica series and the Kew Gardens-associated Kew Bulletin. Titles cover families and genera treated in major flora projects such as Flora Europaea, Flora Malesiana, Flora Zambesiaca and the Plants of the World Online database. Collaborations have produced works akin to handbooks used alongside collections at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Natural History Museum, London and herbaria at Harvard University Herbaria, the Smithsonian Institution and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.
Editorial standards reflect academic practices similar to those of scholarly presses like Routledge, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell and Springer, emphasizing peer-reviewed monographs and taxonomic revisions. Manuscripts typically undergo review by specialists affiliated with universities and botanical institutions such as Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh. Peer reviewers often include authors and curators connected to the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and researchers from the Smithsonian Institution, ensuring taxonomic rigour, nomenclatural consistency with the International Code of Nomenclature and alignment with conservation assessment frameworks such as those used by the IUCN Red List.
Distribution networks leverage partnerships with academic distributors, university presses and botanical institutions; comparable partners include John Wiley & Sons, Cambridge University Press, OUP, University of California Press and international book trade agents. Institutional collaborations extend to organizations such as the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, the Royal Horticultural Society, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, the World Wildlife Fund, the United Nations Environment Programme and regional botanical gardens across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Sales, marketing and library distributions interface with consortia like Research Libraries UK, the British Library, the Library of Congress and international botanical libraries including those at Kew, Kew’s international partners and major herbaria.
The publisher’s catalogue includes floras, identification keys and illustrated books that have been cited in taxonomic literature alongside landmark works such as Flora of Tropical East Africa, Flora Zambesiaca and regional monographs used by conservationists and horticulturists. Titles have received recognition in contexts similar to awards and honours presented by the Royal Horticultural Society, the Linnean Society’s Darwin–Wallace Medal, botanical literature prizes administered by botanical societies, and citations in major checklists including the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and Plants of the World Online. Influential contributors and editors have included botanists, taxonomists and illustrators connected to institutions such as Kew Gardens, the Natural History Museum, the New York Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden and universities renowned for plant science.
Digital publishing initiatives mirror trends at institutions such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library, JSTOR Global Plants, the Catalogue of Life and Plants of the World Online, integrating digitised illustrations, specimen records and links to herbarium databases. The imprint has participated in open data exchanges consistent with practices at GBIF, the International Plant Names Index and the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, enabling discovery of treatments, images and nomenclatural data for researchers and practitioners. Digital formats support integration with linked-data projects, institutional repositories at universities and online platforms used by conservation programmes like the IUCN and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Operated within the institutional governance of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the publishing unit coordinates editorial, production and rights management functions alongside Kew departments responsible for science, collections and outreach. Editorial oversight and strategic direction involve senior staff and committees comparable to governance arrangements at academic presses and museum publishers, with input from scientific advisory boards composed of curators and researchers from partner organisations such as the Linnean Society, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, the Royal Horticultural Society and international herbaria. Fiscal and policy frameworks align with public-sector oversight typical of UK cultural and scientific institutions, and publications are produced to support research, conservation and public engagement missions.
Category:Publishing companies of the United Kingdom Category:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew