中国科学院的出版事业起步于建院之初。当时成立了编译局,其工作重点是积极恢复原已出版的各种刊物,并创办了《中国科学》和《科学通报》等新期刊;组织出版解放前未能出版的著名科学家的著作,介绍外国科学专著。此外,接受国家委托,负责自然科学名词的编订工作。1954年成立了院编译出版委员会。同年,在编译局的基础上与龙门书局合并组建科学出版社, Chinese Academy of Sciences started its career in the founding of the hospital. At that time, the Compilation and Translation Bureau was set up. The focus of the work was to actively restore the various publications that had been published and set up new periodicals such as “China Science” and “Science Bulletin”; organize the publication and publication of the works of famous scientists that were unpublished before the liberation Foreign scientific monographs. In addition, the commissioned by the state, responsible for the preparation of the terminology of natural sciences. In 1954 set up a hospital compilation and publishing committee. In the same year, the Science Press was merged with the Longmen Book Company on the basis of the Compilation and Translation Bureau,