Academic Press
Academic Press (London, Oxford, Boston, New York and San Diego) is an American science publisher .
history
Academic Press was founded in 1942 as an independent publisher by Walter Jolowicz (1908-1996, in the USA Walter J. Johnson ), the son of the founder of the Academic Publishing Society in Leipzig Leo Jolowicz (1868-1940), his wife Thekla and his brother-in-law Kurt Jacoby (1893–1968) founded in New York, both emigrants from Germany (another former member of the Academic Publishing Society, Eric Proskauer, previously founded Interscience in New York in 1940 ). It was acquired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1970 (shortly after Jacoby's death) and then by Reed Elsevier in 2001 . Today he is an imprint of Elsevier .
Academic Press publishes textbooks, journals and online products in the following areas:
- Communications engineering
- Economics
- Environmental science
- Finance
- nutrition
- geophysics
- Life sciences
- mathematics
- statistics
- Neuroscience
- physics
- psychology
Its best-known products include the Methods in Enzymology book series and encyclopedias such as the International Encyclopedia of Public Health and the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience .
Web links
- Academic Press - the publisher's own website
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary to Walter J. Johnson , New York Times , December 23, 1996.