| Parent company | Wolters Kluwer |
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| Founded | 1998 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Publication types | books,journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Medicine |
| Official website | www |
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an Americanimprint of the American Dutch publishing conglomerateWolters Kluwer. It was established by the acquisition of Williams & Wilkins and its merger withJ.B. Lippincott Company in 1998. Under the LWWbrand, Wolters Kluwer, through its Health Division, publishesscientific, technical, and medical content such as textbooks, reference works, and over 275scientific journals (most of which are medical or otherpublic health journals). Publications are aimed at physicians, nurses, clinicians, and students.
LWW grew out of the gradual consolidation of various earlier independent publishers by Wolters Kluwer. Predecessor Wolters Samson acquired Raven Press of New York in 1986.[1] Wolters Samson merged with Kluwer in 1987. The merged company bought J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia in 1990; it merged Lippincott with the Raven Press to form Lippincott-Raven in 1995.[2] In 1997 and 1998, Wolters Kluwer acquiredThomson Science (owner of theCurrent Opinion medical journals), and Plenum and merged the medical publications of each with Lippincott-Raven.[3] In 1998, Wolters Kluwer bought Waverly, parent of Williams & Wilkins ofBaltimore and merged it into Lippincott-Raven to form LWW.[4] Waverly had acquired Lea & Febiger of Philadelphia in 1990.[5] In 2000, Wolters Kluwer bought Springhouse Corporation fromReed Elsevier.[6] In 2002 LWW ceased being an operating company and completed the path to being simply a brand of the conglomerate.
Lippincott had its headquarters inPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania, with otherUnited States locations inBaltimore,Maryland,New York City,New York,Hagerstown,Maryland, andAmbler,Pennsylvania, as well as locations inLondon,Hong Kong, andSydney. Most of those offices are still in service under Wolters Kluwer.
The publisher had its origins in a Philadelphia bookstall opened by Benjamin Warner and Jacob Johnson in 1792. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott assumed control of the firm in 1836. In 1978, the company (then namedJ. B. Lippincott Company) was sold toHarper & Row, at which point it began to focus its publishing activities exclusively in health care; in 1990, it was sold byNews Corporation toWolters Kluwer. It was later merged with Raven Press in 1995 to becomeLippincott-Raven Publishers, which then merged with Williams & Wilkins, ultimately formingLippincott Williams & Wilkins in 1998.
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