Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC) is part of Macmillan Publishers Limited, one of the world's leading multinational publishing groups. Macmillan has a long and distinguished history. Founded in 1843, the company remained in the Macmillan family's ownership until the early 1990s. It is now wholly owned by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a German media group that values publishing independence, integrity, and quality.
Macmillan has offices in 41 countries worldwide (38 of these are publishing offices) and operates in over 70.
Macmillan comprises over 50 divisions and 5 areas of publishing:
- education publishing including English language teaching (ELT)
- academic publishing including reference
- scientific, technological and medical publishing
- fiction and non-fiction book publishing
- publishing services including distribution and production
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is the scientific and medical publishing arm of the Macmillan Group. It publishes Nature, the renowned international weekly journal of Science. NPG has a long history of innovation and is renowned for its impact, attention to quality, and international reach.
Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States is also part of the wider Holtzbrinck group. Scientific American is published in many languages including German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Italian, Russian, Greek, and Portuguese. See a complete list of languages available.
