Michael Gallico

Managing Director/CEO, Maney Publishing

I have been first Publishing, then Managing, Director of Maney since 1997 and thus I have lead the transformation of the previous printing business into today’s international publisher – and expect the company to travel much further in years to come.

My career started with a history degree from Cambridge, including the early medieval Irish language – not a skill I have been able to use since! With an information science qualification I joined the Leeds University Library staff and moved from the humanities collections to managing the journals collection, and then to the Medical & Dental Library (MDL). Within the MDL was an NHS-funded unit compiling bibliographies on clinical aspects of cancer, the Oncology Information Service (OIS), and in one of those unpredictable career-changing events I took it on for nine months, then permanently. This was my introduction to journals publishing, but I have since met many people in the industry with a background in information and library work.

OIS became Leeds Medical Information in the 1990s: with clinical staff in the medical school I developed a range of abstracting services that included editorial content on emerging areas of cancer virology – papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus –and on AIDS & HIV. I developed commercial literature-based projects for the pharmaceutical industry; and launched Progress in Palliative Care, which I am delighted to say still flourishes on Maney’s list.

I left the University to join Carfax Publishing, an innovative journals house, as its medical publisher, where I built the list by acquisition and by launching some highly successful titles. Mortality, an interdisciplinary title on death, dying and bereavement, and Aging & Mental Health remain two of my favourites. It was a much different climate: electronic publishing was in its infancy; the technologies we now take as standard – online submission systems, CrossRef, LOCKSS and CLOCKSS – were hardly thought of.  However, the tide of mergers that has eliminated so many imprints was about to sweep Carfax away and in 1997 I returned to Leeds.

At that point W.S. Maney & Son Ltd was a printing business with a fine client list and history dating back to 1900, but an uncertain future. Maney worked extensively for a series of significant learned societies in the humanities, and in re-engineering the business many of those clients have stayed and been joined by many more, now enjoying a full publishing service. In the early years the foundations of the modern company were laid in every area, from creating the imprint of Maney Publishing onwards.

Since then there have been some remarkable highlights. The doubling of our size and entry into an entirely new field by taking on the entire Institute of Materials publishing programme in 2001 started us down the route to STM publishing, now more than half our turnover. Our growth in the USA since 2006 has been exciting; and the 100th journal was published in 2011. Our progress as an organization, with over 40 staff, is pleasing and I am fortunate to work with an experienced, motivated and innovative group of colleagues with wide knowledge of many aspects of the publishing industry.

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Our technological progress has been rapid and continues. However, from the outset I have been adamant that we match energy and enthusiasm with the values of service, collaboration and focus on our clients’ requirements – the values on which Maney was founded in 1900. Should those values meet your concerns, then may I cordially invite you to contact my business development colleagues, or any of the executive directors.

Gemma Briggs - Business Development Co-ordinator
Michael Gallico - Managing Director/CEO
Kimberly Martin - Executive Publisher (USA)
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton - Business Development Manager (Europe)
Mark Simon - Publishing Director
Shelly Turner - Director of Sales and Marketing