Company:Academic Press
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Short description: Academic book publisher
| Parent company | Elsevier |
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| Founded | 1941 |
| Founder | Walter J. Johnson (a.k.a. Walter Jolowicz, 1908–1996) Kurt Jacoby (1893–1968)[1] |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Nonfiction topics | Science |
| Official website | elsevier.com/academic-press |
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969.[2] Reed Elsevier said in 2000 it would buy Harcourt,[3] a deal completed the next year, after a regulatory review.[4] Thus, Academic Press is now an imprint of Elsevier.
Academic Press publishes reference books, serials and online products in the subject areas of:
- Communications engineering
- Economics
- Environmental science
- Finance
- Food science and nutrition
- Geophysics
- Life sciences
- Mathematics and statistics
- Neuroscience
- Physical sciences
- Psychology
Well-known products include the Methods in Enzymology series and encyclopedias such as The International Encyclopedia of Public Health and the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.
See also
- Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (AVG) — the German predecessor, founded in 1906 by Leo Jolowicz (1868–1940), the father of Walter Jolowicz and father-in-law of Kurt Jacoby
References
- ↑ Uchitelle, Louis (1996-12-23). "Walter J. Johnson, 88, Refugee Who Founded Academic Press". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/23/nyregion/walter-j-johnson-88-refugee-who-founded-academic-press.html.
- ↑ Abele, John J. (1969-04-12). "FRANCHISER SEEKS RAMADA INNS, INC.; International Industries Set to Acquire Motel Chain for $221-Million of Stock Acquisition and Merger Actions Are Instituted by Corporations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1969/04/12/archives/franchiser-seeks-ramada-inns-inc-international-industries-set-to.html.
- ↑ Malakoff, David (2000). "Librarians Seek to Block Merger of Scientific Publishing Giants". Science 290 (5493): pp. 910–911. doi:10.1126/science.290.5493.910. ISSN 1095-9203. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.290.5493.910.
- ↑ Malakoff, David. "Science Publishing Megamerger Advances". Science. ISSN 1095-9203. https://www.science.org/content/article/science-publishing-megamerger-advances.
Further reading
- Abel, Richard; Graham, L. Gordon, eds (2009). Immigrant Publishers. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
- "Publishing Roots and Anecdotes". Lacunae Musing. 2013-03-23. https://lacunaemusing.blogspot.com/2013/03/publishing-roots-and-anecdotes.html.
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