Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It launched a British division in the 1950s. Academic Press was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969. Reed Elsevier said in 2000 it would buy Harcourt, a deal completed the next year, after a regulatory review. 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
Further reading
- Abel, Richard; Graham, L. Gordon, eds. (2009). Immigrant Publishers. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
- Hagelstein, Robert "Bob" (2013-03-23). "Publishing Roots and Anecdotes". Lacunae Musing. Archived from the original on 2022-02-03. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
External links
References
"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. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/29510 ↩
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. 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. Vol. 290, no. 5493. pp. 910–911. doi:10.1126/science.290.5493.910. ISSN 1095-9203. Retrieved 2023-07-16. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.290.5493.910 ↩
Malakoff, David. "Science Publishing Megamerger Advances". Science. ISSN 1095-9203. Retrieved 2023-07-16. https://www.science.org/content/article/science-publishing-megamerger-advances ↩