| 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 (AP) is anacademicbookpublisher founded in 1941. It launched a British division in the 1950s.[2] Academic Press was acquired byHarcourt, 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 is now animprint ofElsevier.
Academic Press publishes reference books, serials and online products in the subject areas of:
Well-known products include theMethods in Enzymology series and encyclopedias such asThe International Encyclopedia of Public Health and theEncyclopedia of Neuroscience.
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