About the Company
Golson Media is a quality-focused book and multimedia
content packager located in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. We specialize
in producing content for leading publishers in library, school, and
trade reference markets. Formerly known as Golson Books, Ltd., the company
is increasingly providing digital media, including audio and video,
for electronic and web-based product delivery.
Headed by J. Geoffrey Golson, a 30-year publishing veteran and former
publisher at Macmillan USA, Golson Media works with more than 500 academic
and freelance authors on projects for publishers like HarperCollins,
SAGE Publications, Facts On File, M.E. Sharpe, and others. Golson Media
was founded in 2002 and has partnered with General Editors from distinguished
universities and Pultizer Prize-winning authors to work with our select
group of creative editors, designers, managers, and full-service staff.
Services We Provide
Our team provides intellectual content from concept
through final production phases ready for print, electronic, digital,
or web-based publication. Our staff and roster of freelancers include:
development editors, marketers, copyeditors, photo and multimedia researchers,
photographers, typesetters, proofreaders, indexers, and other support
staff to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of new products. Our
services range from providing proposals for new products to executing
a publisher's own program.
About our General Editors
Golson Media partners with leading experts in specific
fields. For example, S. George Philander at Princeton for the Encyclopedia
of Global Warming and Climate Change, Yawei Zhang at Yale for the
Encyclopedia of Global Health, Clive Svendsen at UW-Madision
for the Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research, among many others.
Rodney Carlisle, a retired history professor from Rutgers, serves as
our general editor-at-large at Golson Media, covering such topics as
politics, intelligence, and U.S. history. Such dynamic associations
have resulted in citations for our works, including:
Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society - Library Journal Best Reference
2007
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society - Library Journal Best
Reference 2007
Encyclopedia of Poverty - Library Journal Best Reference 2006
Encyclopedia of Politics - NY Public Library Best of Reference
2006
