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Academic Press

{{Short description|Academic book publisher}}

{{Distinguish|Academic Studies Press|Academic press (disambiguation)}}

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| parent = Elsevier

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| founded = 1941

| founder = Walter J. Johnson {{nobr|({{aka}} Walter Jolowicz, 1908–1996)}}
Kurt Jacoby {{nobr|(1893–1968)}}{{cite news |title=Walter J. Johnson, 88, Refugee Who Founded Academic Press |last=Uchitelle |first=Louis |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=1996-12-23 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/23/nyregion/walter-j-johnson-88-refugee-who-founded-academic-press.html |access-date=2018-01-16}}

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| country = United States

| headquarters = Cambridge, Massachusetts

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| topics = Science

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| url = {{URL|https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/academic-press|elsevier.com/academic-press}}

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Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It launched a British division in the 1950s.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/29510 | doi=10.3233/978-1-58603-148-0-139 | title=A Century of Science Publishing | chapter=The Move of U.S. Publishers Overseas | date=2001 | pages=139–145 | publisher=IOS Press }} 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:

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

References

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{{cite news |title=Walter J. Johnson, 88, Refugee Who Founded Academic Press |last=Uchitelle |first=Louis |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=1996-12-23 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/23/nyregion/walter-j-johnson-88-refugee-who-founded-academic-press.html |access-date=2018-01-16}}

{{cite news |title=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 |last=Abele |first=John J. |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=2019-10-20 |date=1969-04-12 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/04/12/archives/franchiser-seeks-ramada-inns-inc-international-industries-set-to.html}}

{{cite news |title= Librarians Seek to Block Merger of Scientific Publishing Giants | last = Malakoff | first = David | newspaper = Science | date = 2000 | volume = 290 | issue = 5493 | pages = 910–911 | doi = 10.1126/science.290.5493.910 | issn=1095-9203 |access-date=2023-07-16|url= https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.290.5493.910 }}

{{cite news |title= Science Publishing Megamerger Advances | last = Malakoff | first = David | newspaper = Science | issn= 1095-9203|access-date=2023-07-16|url= https://www.science.org/content/article/science-publishing-megamerger-advances }}

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor1-first=Richard |editor1-last=Abel |editor2-first=L. Gordon |editor2-last=Graham |editor-link2=L. Gordon Graham |title=Immigrant Publishers |publisher=Transaction Publishers |location=New Brunswick |date=2009}}
  • {{cite web |title=Publishing Roots and Anecdotes |author-first=Robert "Bob" |author-last=Hagelstein |work=Lacunae Musing |date=2013-03-23 |url=https://lacunaemusing.blogspot.com/2013/03/publishing-roots-and-anecdotes.html |access-date=2022-02-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203165119/https://lacunaemusing.blogspot.com/2013/03/publishing-roots-and-anecdotes.html |archive-date=2022-02-03}}

External links

  • {{official website|https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/academic-press}}

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