The Rockefeller University Press

The Rockefeller University entered publishing in 1905, when it took over the Journal of Experimental Medicine, coedited by the institution’s first head, Simon Flexner. Rockefeller’s publications department was established in 1910 and expanded its program to include monographs and a collection of publications resulting from in-house research, entitled “Studies from The Institute for Medical Research.” The press later founded two new journals, both of which it continues to publish today: the Journal of General Physiology in 1917 and the Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical Cytology (later renamed the Journal of Cell Biology) in 1955. The press has also served as a contract publisher for other organizations: It published the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1914 to 1925, the Biophysical Journal from 1960 to 1993, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation from 1967 to 1998.