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| Status | Defunct |
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| Founded | 1962 |
| Founder | Alvin Ward Gouldner, Lee Rainwater, andIrving Louis Horowitz |
| Successor | Routledge |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Piscataway, New Jersey |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Social Sciences |
| Official website | www |
Transaction Publishers was aNew Jersey–basedpublishing house that specialized insocial science books and journals. It was located on theLivingston Campus of Rutgers University.[1] Transaction was sold toTaylor & Francis in 2016 and merged with itsRoutledge imprint.[2][3]
As of February 1, 2017, Transaction Publishers became a part of Routledge, of the Taylor & Francis Group.
Transaction was an academic publisher of thesocial sciences. It was founded byIrving Louis Horowitz, who served as Transaction's chairman of the board and editorial director until his death in 2012.[4][5][6]
Transaction began on July 1, 1962, as part of a multiplex grant sponsored by theFord Foundation atWashington University in St. Louis. From beginnings as a social science magazine,Transaction: Social Science and Modern Society (laterSociety), Transaction Publishers evolved into a full-fledged publisher of books (Transaction Books), journals (Transaction Periodicals Consortium), and eBooks.[7]
In 1969, Transaction relocated to the newly formed Livingston College, on the Livingston campus of Rutgers University inPiscataway, New Jersey. Many editors, authors, and advisors are drawn from the faculty. Close to 200 faculty members have been authors and editors of Transaction books.[citation needed]
AldineTransaction was an imprint of Transaction Publishers. Formerly a division ofWalter de Gruyter, Inc., Aldine Publishing Co. was acquired by Transaction in July 2004, and the books were then published under the imprint AldineTransaction. AldineTransaction published classic books in the fields of sociology, anthropology, economics, sociobiology, physical anthropology, and public policy. It acquired book lists from Precedent Publishers in 2009 and the RutgersCenter for Urban Policy Research (CUPR) in 2011.[8]
Transaction published more than 6,000 titles.[when?]
Transaction once published academic journals, including its flagship journal,Society; however, Transaction sold its journal publishing program toSpringer Science+Business Media in 2007.[9]
In 2010,Penn State University announced the "Irving Louis Horowitz–Transaction Publishers Archives, 1939–2009" open for public research at Penn State's Historical Collections and Labor Archives (HCLA) of The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, University Libraries.[10] The archive documents the expansion of social science research over the past half century.
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