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Academic publishing companies
- RoutledgeGeorge Routledge published an unsuccessful guidebook titled The Beauties of Gilsland in 1836. He worked alongside his brother-in-law W. H.
- Oxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world, and only Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534, is older.
- Westview PressFrederick A. Praeger established Westview Press in Boulder, Colorado during 1975. The company began as a small operation with a clear mission to produce…
- Pluto PressPluto Press opened its doors in London in 1969, founded by Richard Kuper with a purpose that was anything but modest: to support and promote political debate…
- University of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press published its very first book in 1890, and it was not an easy sell. Robert F. Harper's Assyrian and Babylonian Letters…
- Wiley-BlackwellWiley-Blackwell traces back to a publisher that once put out more than 805 journals and 650 text and reference books in a single year.
- Palgrave MacmillanThe year 2000 marked a pivotal moment in British publishing history. St. Martin's Press from the United States joined forces with Macmillan Publishers based…
- Wiley (publisher)John Wiley & Sons published Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper in the 19th century, alongside legal and religious…
- Springer Science+Business MediaSpringer Science+Business Media traces its roots to a single Berlin publishing house founded in 1842, and today it sits inside one of the largest academic…
- Henry Holt and CompanyHenry Holt and Company opened its doors in 1866. Two men named Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt started the business together.
- Taylor & FrancisTaylor & Francis Group's original logo showed a hand pouring oil into a lit lamp. Below it ran a Latin phrase, alere flammam, meaning to feed the flame of…
- Springer NatureSpringer Nature is a German-British academic publishing company whose name carries two centuries of family history. Its Springer half traces back to a…
- Brill PublishersBrill Academic Publishers has been operating continuously from the city of Leiden since the 17th of May 1683, when a bookseller named Jordaan Luchtmans…
- ElsevierElsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company that sits at the center of one of the most contested debates in modern science: who owns the right to read…
- Boydell & BrewerBoydell & Brewer sits in Martlesham, Suffolk, a small corner of England that has become a surprising crossroads for some of the most specialized academic…
- Peter Lang (publisher)Peter Lang has built a backlist that runs past forty thousand books, all in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it has never become a household name…
- Bloomsbury PublishingNigel Newton established Bloomsbury Publishing in 1986. He had previously worked for other publishing companies before starting his own venture.
- Ashgate PublishingAshgate Publishing spent nearly five decades as a fixture of British academic life, turning out books and journals on subjects from social science to the…
- University of South Carolina PressThe University of South Carolina Press opened its doors in 1944. This new entity emerged from the heart of the university system to serve a specific academic…
- M. E. SharpeM. E. Sharpe, Inc. began in 1958 with a very specific mission: to bring Russian social science and humanities scholarship to English-speaking readers.
- Berg PublishersBerg Publishers was an academic press founded in Oxford in 1983 by Marion Berghahn, and its story is really the story of what happens when a small specialist…
- Berghahn BooksBerghahn Books began in 1994 when Marion Berghahn founded a press dedicated to the corners of scholarship that larger publishers often overlooked.
- Royal Society of ChemistryThe Royal Society of Chemistry keeps a ceremonial badge for its president: a spoked wheel centered on a hexagonal medallion.
- Cambria PressCambria Press opened its doors in Amherst, New York, sending its first titles into the world in September 2006. From the start, it operated as an independent…
- Academic Studies PressAcademic Studies Press had spent years building a catalog of Ukrainian translations. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine brought renewed interest to those…
- Open Court Publishing CompanyEdward C. Hegeler established Open Court Publishing Company in 1887 within the industrial heart of Chicago, Illinois. He was a zinc manufacturer who led the…