Mosby (imprint)

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Mosby
Parent company Elsevier
Founded1906
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location Maryland Heights, Missouri
Publication types Books, academic journals
Nonfiction topicsHealth
Official website store.elsevier.com/Mosby/IMP_17/

Mosby is an academic publisher of textbooks and academic journals based in the United States.

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The C.V. Mosby Company was incorporated in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. [1]

Formerly independent, C.V. Mosby, Inc. was acquired by Times Mirror in 1967. In 1989, Times Mirror merged C.V. Mosby with Year Book Medical Publishers, Wolfe Publishing Ltd. and PSG Publishing Company. [1]

Harcourt General acquired Mosby in 1998. [2] The company was purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001, and the company became an imprint of Elsevier. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "EHS: Information Center - Mosby Company History". Mosby. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
  2. "Harcourt to Buy Mosby From Times Mirror". Los Angeles Times. 1998-05-07. Retrieved 2019-11-02.