Short answers, pulled from the story.
Richard Taylor and William Francis established Taylor & Francis in 1852. Richard Taylor had previously started his business in 1798 focusing on agriculture, chemistry, and engineering before the partnership formed.
Taylor & Francis acquired its academic publishing rival Routledge for £90 million in 1998. This strategic consolidation allowed the company to dominate the humanities and social sciences sectors.
Taylor & Francis retracted a paper in 2018 due to the nationality of the Iranian authors. The European Mathematical Society condemned the retraction and later announced that Taylor & Francis agreed to reverse the decision.
Taylor & Francis sold access to its authors research to Microsoft as part of an AI partnership in 2024. The deal allowed Microsoft non-exclusive access to content and data without informing or seeking consent from the authors.
Lucina Uddin sued Taylor & Francis in September 2024 along with five other academic journal publishers. The lawsuit alleged that the publishers violated antitrust law by agreeing not to compete for manuscripts and by denying scholars payment for peer review services.