Academic Press

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Academic Press
Parent company Elsevier
Founded1941
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 topicsScience
Official website elsevier.com/academic-press

Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It launched a British division in the 1950s. [2] Academic Press was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969. [3] Reed Elsevier said in 2000 it would buy Harcourt, [4] a deal completed the next year, after a regulatory review. [5] Thus, Academic Press became an imprint of Elsevier.

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Academic Press publishes reference books, serials and online products in the subject areas of:

Well-known products include the Methods in Enzymology series and encyclopedias such as The International Encyclopedia of Public Health and the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.

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References

  1. ↑ Uchitelle, Louis (1996-12-23). "Walter J. Johnson, 88, Refugee Who Founded Academic Press". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  2. ↑ "The Move of U.S. Publishers Overseas". A Century of Science Publishing. IOS Press. 2001. pp. 139–145. doi:10.3233/978-1-58603-148-0-139.
  3. ↑ 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 . Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  4. ↑ Malakoff, David (2000). "Librarians Seek to Block Merger of Scientific Publishing Giants". Science . Vol. 290, no. 5493. pp. 910–911. doi:10.1126/science.290.5493.910. ISSN   1095-9203 . Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  5. ↑ Malakoff, David. "Science Publishing Megamerger Advances". Science . ISSN   1095-9203 . Retrieved 2023-07-16.

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