Academic Press

Not to be confused with Academic Studies Press or Academic press (disambiguation).

Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969.^[2] Reed Elsevier said in 2000 it would buy Harcourt,^[3] a deal completed the next year, after a regulatory review.^[4] Thus, Academic Press is now an imprint of Elsevier.

Academic Press

Parent company	Elsevier
Founded	1941
Founder	Walter J. Johnson (a.k.a. Walter Jolowicz, 1908–1996) Kurt Jacoby (1893–1968)[1]
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nonfiction topics	Science
Official website	elsevier.com/academic-press

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

References

1. Uchitelle, Louis (1996-12-23). "Walter J. Johnson, 88, Refugee Who Founded Academic Press". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Malakoff, David. "Science Publishing Megamerger Advances". Science. ISSN 1095-9203. Retrieved 2023-07-16.

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

• Official website