The Charlesworth Group is a market leader, offering sales representation and marketing services for the fastest growing market in the world, i.e. China. The group also offers superior quality English language editing and publication support services, for authors, institutions, and publishers.
Who are these services for?
End-to-end author and publisher support services
Publishers
wishing to maximize market impact in China through specialized sales, marketing, and consultancy services for the Chinese publishing market.
Authors
requiring professional English language editing services from leading doctoral-level editors across scientific and scholarly disciplines.
Libraries
looking to partner with publishers to provide the academic community in China with researcher resources and information.
Universities
needing superior-quality English language editing and publication support services, for institutional authors, and academic resources and information.
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Comprehensive Services
Sales
Representation
Charlesworth can provide a full sales agency service in China or provide specific sales support across print and digital. We are leading agents for the licensing of content into the major consortia in China, including the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL), Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries (DRAA), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Marketing
Agency Services
Our dedicated, expert marketing agency team provides customized consultancy packages and ongoing marketing services. Our comprehensive marketing services include WeChat Marketing, social marketing via Weibo, Zhihu, and Bilibili, SEO, PPC, content marketing, website building, webinars, and live stream events, among others.
Media Monitoring
Authors in China regularly use social media platforms and online forums to comment on journal titles and publishers. Through our dedicated monitoring service, we can provide detailed information on the Chinese academic community’s perception of your service, allowing you to find gaps in your market offering and optimize your marketing efforts using our data.
Charlesworth
Gateway
Charlesworth Gateway is a web-based content marketing and author communication platform used for managing author communication within the STM workflow through WeChat. Create a direct relationship with the Chinese academic community through a truly localized solution.
Payment
Gateway
The Charlesworth Group provides an APC Payment gateway that allows authors to pay with WeChat Pay or Alipay and receive a Chinese invoice, ensuring that their author experience is easy and in line with their expectations. Our Payment Gateway is integrated into your workflow to create a seamless payment workflow.
Language Polishing
We provide academic editing via our team of PhD expert editors. By using our services, researchers maximize their chances of getting published in international journals. We have experience in all forms of academic writing, and have world-renowned clients including the Academy of Management, The Royal Society, and the American Institute of Physics among others.
Our Clients
Connecting Publishers with Authors
WeChat Gateway: A Charlesworth Innovation
The Charlesworth WeChat Gateway provides STM Publishers with the ability to integrate back-end systems into WeChat to create engaging experiences for China-based authors. The Charlesworth Group won the 2022 ALPSP Awards for Innovation.
Our Clients Speak
Our greatest source of inspiration and motivation is our clients’ testimonies and faith in us! Here is what some of them had to say about our services.
Angela Jones
General Manager,Dove Medical Press Ltd
Our marketing team can now assess how our WeChat followers engage with our content, which better informs our customer service strategy in the region. Growth of our WeChat followers and growth in the number of our authors using our new paper status update function is a long-term investment for us.
Julia Sewell
Head of China Marketing,Hindawi
We are delighted to be able to increase the brand profile in China with the support of The Charlesworth Group – by working together with authors, editors, reviewers and readers, we can better understand the changing needs of researchers, the challenges they face, and how we can contribute to scholarly communication by providing them with the tools & resources they need.
Marc Gillett
Head of Publishing Operations, IOPOur Track My Article service receives 800,000 requests a year and makes it as easy as possible for researchers to track the status of their article with IOP Publishing. Chinese authors can now get live updates on their article by following IOP Publishing on WeChat and then providing their article ID. We’ve received over 20,500 enquiries to the service since launch and overwhelmingly positive feedback from Chinese authors.
Debbie Vaughan
Marketing Manager,Royal Society Publishing
As an academic publisher, we have several perennial objectives. These include increasing high-quality submissions to our journals and driving usage of our content...Charlesworth's WeChat Account Management Service allows us to do all of these things with that crucial Chinese audience. In particular, we find it useful for engaging with authors that have already published with us.