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Academic Press

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Short description: Academic book publisher
Not to be confused with Academic Studies Press or Academic press (disambiguation).

Academic Press
Parent companyElsevier
Founded1941
FounderWalter J. Johnson (a.k.a. Walter Jolowicz, 1908–1996)
Kurt Jacoby (1893–1968)[1]
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationCambridge, Massachusetts
Nonfiction topicsScience
Official websiteelsevier.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.

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

  • 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

  1. ↑ 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. 
  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. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/29510. 
  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. https://www.nytimes.com/1969/04/12/archives/franchiser-seeks-ramada-inns-inc-international-industries-set-to.html. 
  4. ↑ 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. 
  5. ↑ Malakoff, David. "Science Publishing Megamerger Advances". Science. ISSN 1095-9203. https://www.science.org/content/article/science-publishing-megamerger-advances. 

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