ABC-Clio
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ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings. ABC-Clio provides service to fifteen different online databases which contain over one million online textbooks.[2] The company consults academic leaders in the fields they cover in order to provide authority for their reference titles.[3] The headquarters are located in Santa Barbara, California.
History
ABC-Clio was founded in 1955 as a privately held corporation by Eric Boehm with its first publication,
During the 1960s, a sister bibliographic and abstract publication on American history was added, America: History and Life, which was considered an award-winning title. The company entered into digital publishing with electronic data in the 1960s and in 1975, it published its first online database[6] called DIALOG. During the 1980s, ABC-Clio expanded into providing primary reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries and stopped publishing bibliographic books.[5]
In the 1990s, ABC-Clio began to provide access to its humanities database on CD-ROM. The Exegy Current Events CD-ROM was named "Best Disc of the Year" by Library Journal.[4] In 1998, ABC-Clio provided electronic access to America: History and Life. By the 2000s, one of the company's most popular products had become online databases for researching many topics in the field of the humanities. In 2001, ABC-Clio began to publish eBooks, initially providing 150 different titles to schools and libraries.[6] The company's reference books had won numerous awards, and the company started a series of subject-related online databases for secondary school use. In 2004, the company acquired the quarterly historical journal, Journal of the West, which has been published since 1962.[4]
In 1996, ABC-Clio merged with an electronic publishing company, Intellimation, which also produced educational software. The merger brought Becky Snyder, ABC-Clio's current president, from Intellimation.
Subsidiaries
- Intellimation
- Linworth Publishing, Inc.: In 2009-03-18, Libraries Unlimited announced the acquisition of Linworth Publishing, with partnership becoming effective immediately.[10]
- Journal of the West
Imprints and series
ABC-Clio/Greenwood
In 2008, ABC-Clio acquired the Greenwood Publishing Group from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The deal gave ABC-Clio a "perpetual license" to use the imprints of Greenwood Press and publish all of its titles. Acquiring the publishing group gave ABC-Clio access to Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International and Libraries Unlimited.[11] Greenwood focuses on publishing full-text reference works which are authoritative on various topics.[12]
Libraries Unlimited
Libraries Unlimited came to ABC-Clio as part of a deal with Greenwood Press. In 2012, Kathyrn Suárez was named Publisher for this division which focuses on publishing for librarians and information professionals.[12]
ABC-Clio Solutions
ABC-Clio databases are provided under the umbrella of ABC-Clio Solutions. There are fifteen different databases providing access to different subject areas.[2] ABC-Clio Solutions provides digital curriculum with multimedia content, text-to-speech features, translation tools which covers various topics relating to history and the humanities.[13] After ABC-Clio acquired Greenwood Press's databases, they revamped the look and feel of their interface in order to provide common access through the ABC-Clio interface.[14] ABC-Clio also provided the ability to search across multiple databases through one search, also providing options for narrowing the search after revamping their interface.[15] The new interface is considered user-friendly and provides access to personalized features.[16]
Praeger
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Praeger is known for publishing "scholarly and professional books" in the subject areas of social science and the humanities.[12]
References
- ^ "ABC-CLIO Solutions – Contact Us". Archived from the original on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
- ^ a b Noonoo, Stephen (2 April 2015). "Database Offers 1 Million Free Resources and Images in April". eSchool News. Archived from the original on Sep 8, 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ISSN 0006-7385. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ a b c "History and Mission". ABC-CLIO. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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- ^ ISSN 0000-0019. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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- ^ "EBSCO Acquires Two Renowned Databases from ABC-CLIO: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life Archived April 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine". June 15, 2007.
- ^ "Bloomsbury Buys ABC-CLIO for $22.9Million".
- ^ Two Top Professional Development Publishers Partner to Create Next-Generation Resources for Librarians and Educators
- ISSN 0363-0277. Archived from the originalon 27 November 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ a b c "Kathryn Suárez Appointed Publisher of Libraries Unlimited". Santa Barbara Independent. 9 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ "ABC-CLIO Upgrades History Instruction with Multimedia Content". eSchool News. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ISSN 0006-7385. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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- ISBN 9780838912126.