Taylor & Francis
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| Parent company | Informa |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Founder | William Francis & Richard Taylor |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire United Kingdom |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Roger Horton (CEO);[1][2] Ian Bannerman (MD, Journals);[2]Jeremy North (MD, Books);[2] Christoph Chesher (Group Sales Director).[2] |
| Publication types | Peer-reviewed books & journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Humanities, Social Science, Behavioral Science, Education, Law, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| Fiction genres | Non-Fiction. Academic & Scholarly |
| Imprints | Routledge (Humanities, Social science, Education & Law); Taylor & Francis, CRC Press & Garland Science (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) |
| Revenue |
£447.4M in 2015; [3] £408.9M in 2014.[4] |
| Number of employees | 1,800[5] |
| Official website |
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Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.[6]
Overview
The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor initially founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered include agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences.[7]
Taylor & Francis merged with Informa in 2004 to create a new company called T&F Informa, since renamed back to Informa. Taylor & Francis Group is now the academic publishing arm of Informa.[4]
Taylor & Francis publishes more than 2,400 journals, and approximately 5,000 new books each year, with a backlist of over 110,000 titles available in print and digital formats.[3] It uses the Routledge imprint for its publishing in humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, law and education and the Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and Garland Science imprints for its publishing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.[4] Its Routledge imprint is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences.[8] The journals and e-books have been delivered through the Taylor & Francis Online website since June 2011. Prior to that they were provided through the Informaworld website.[9] Taylor & Francis offers Open Access publishing options in both its books[10] and journals[11] divisions and through its Cogent Open Access journals imprint.[3]
The group has approximately 1,800 employees[5] based in at least fifteen offices worldwide. Its head office is based in Milton Park, Abingdon in the United Kingdom, with other offices in Stockholm, New York, Boca Raton, Philadelphia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, Tokyo and New Delhi.[5][12]
The old Taylor and Francis logo depicts a hand pouring oil into a lit lamp, along with the Latin phrase "alere flammam" - to feed the flame (of knowledge). The modern logo is a stylised oil lamp in a circle.
In 2013, the entire board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned in a dispute over author licensing agreements.[13]
Acquired companies & discontinued imprints
- A.A.Balkema (acquired in 2003[14])
- Accelerated Developments Inc. (acquired in 1994)[15]
- Acumen Publishing (acquired in 2014)[16]
- Adam Hilger (acquired in 2005 as part of IOP Publishing books division)
- AK Peters (acquired in 2010)
- The Analytic Press (acquired with Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates in 2006)[15]
- Anderson Publishing (acquired in 2014)[17]
- Architectural Press [18]
- Arnold (acquired in 2012)[19]
- Ashgate (acquired in July 2015).[20]
- Bellwether Publishing (acquired in 2013)[21]
- BIOS Scientific Publishers (acquired in 2003))[15]
- Bloomsbury Journals (acquired in 2015)[22]
- Brunner-Mazel[15]
- Brunner-Routledge (acquired in 1998)[15]
- Carfax (acquired with Routledge in 1998)[15]
- Cavendish (acquired in 2006)[23]
- CRC Press[15] This imprint is still used.
- Curzon (acquired in 2001)[15]
- David Fulton Press[24]
- Donhead Publishing (acquired in 2013)[25]
- Earthscan (acquired in 2011)[26]
- Europa Publications (acquired in 1999)[27]
- Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (acquired in 2002)[15]
- Focal Press (acquired in 2012 from Elsevier).[28]
- Frank Cass (acquired in 2003)[29]
- Garland Science[15] This imprint is still used.
- Gordon & Breach (acquired in 2001)[30]
- Greengage Press (acquired in 2013)[31]
- Harwood Academic (acquired with Gordon & Breach in 2001)[15]
- Haworth Press (acquired in 2007)[15]
- Heldref Publications (except World Affairs) (acquired in 2009)
- Hodder Education Group (acquired 2012)[32]
- Landes Bioscience (June 2014).[33]
- Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates (acquired in 2006)[15]
- Maney Publishing (acquired in 2015).[34]
- Manson Publishing (acquired in 2014)[35]
- Marcel Dekker (acquired in 2003)[36]
- Martin Dunitz (acquired 1999)[15]
- M.E. Sharpe, Inc. (acquired by Routledge in 2014)[37]
- Paradigm Publishers (acquired in 2014)[38]
- Parthenon Publishing (acquired with CRC Press in 2003)[39]
- Pickering & Chatto Publishers (acquired in 2015)[40]
- Psychology Press
- Radcliffe Healthcare (acquired in 2015)[41]
- RFF Press (acquired with Earthscan in 2011)[42]
- Routledge (acquired in 1998)[15] This imprint is still used.
- Scandinavian University Press Journals[15]
- Spon Press (acquired with Routledge in 1998)[15]
- St Jerome Publishing (acquired in 2013)[43]
- Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers[14]
- Taylor Graham Journals (acquired in 2003)[39]
- Willan Publishing (acquired in 2010)[44][45]
See also
- Category:Taylor & Francis academic journals
References
- ↑ "Executive Management: Roger Horton". Informa.
- 1 2 3 4 "Academic Publishing Senior Management Team". Informa.
- 1 2 3 "Results for 12 months to 31st December 2015" (PDF).
- 1 2 3 "UNDERSTANDING INFORMA Annual Report and Financial Statements 2014" (PDF).
- 1 2 3 "Informa: About Academic Publishing".
- ↑ About Us, Taylor & Francis, UK.
- ↑ Brock, W.H. & Meadows, A.J. (1998). The Lamp Of Learning: Taylor & Francis And Two Centuries Of Publishing. Taylor & Francis.
- ↑ "Publishing With Us - Routledge". Taylor & Francis Group. 2016.
- ↑ "Taylor & Francis Online – FAQs" (PDF). Taylor & Francis Group. 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ "Routledge Books Open Access".
- ↑ "Open Access".
- ↑ "Informa Office Locator: Company = Taylor & Francis". http://informa.com/contact-us/office-locator/?company=Taylor+%26+Francis&view=List&keywords=
- ↑ Dupuis, John. "Journal of Library Administration editorial board resigns over author rights". ScienceBlogs. ScienceBlogs LLC. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
- 1 2 " Swets & Zeitlinger sells Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers", 6 November 2003.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition - Taylor & Francis.
- ↑ "Bertoli Mitchell arranges the sale of Acumen Publishing to Taylor & Francis".
- ↑ "Welcome to the Criminology & Criminal Justice Textbook Catalog".
- ↑ "Routledge Architecture".
- ↑ "TRILLIUM PARTNERS EXTENDS ITS EDUCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC PUBLISHING M&A SECTOR EXPERIENCE",
- ↑ "Informa Pays £20M for Ashgate Publishing".
- ↑ "Bellwether Publishing Journals Join Geography Market Leader Routledge/Taylor & Francis for 2013".
- ↑ "Bloomsbury Journals Join Routledge".
- ↑ Quayle Munro advises shareholders of Cavendish Publishing on sale to Informa
- ↑ Taylor & Francis Group
- ↑ "Donhead Publishing".
- ↑ "Earthscan acquired by Taylor & Francis".
- ↑ Mary H. Munroe (2004). "Taylor & Francis Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Archived from the original on October 2014 – via Northern Illinois University.
- ↑ Global Publishing Leaders 2013: Informa
- ↑ "Taylor and Francis announce acquisition of Frank Cass & Co", 28 July 2003.
- ↑ "Taylor & Francis Group plc acquires Gordon and Breach Publishing Group", 14 February 2001).
- ↑ "Bertoli Mitchell advises the shareholders of Greengage Press on sale to Taylor & Francis".
- ↑ "Thomas Webster leaves Hodder Education following sale of HE and Health Sciences lists". September 2, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
- ↑ "Taylor & Francis Group LLC acquires Landes Bioscience". Taylor & Francis. June 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ "Informa Pays £20M for Ashgate Publishing".
- ↑ Joshua Farrington, "T&F buys Manson Publishing", The Bookseller, 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Taylor & Francis acquires Marcel Dekker", 20 November 2003.
- ↑ "Routledge Welcomes M. E. Sharpe". Archived from the original on 13 July 2015.
- ↑ "Routledge Welcomes Paradigm".
- 1 2 News Archive - 2003 News
- ↑ "Bertoli Mitchell arranges the sale of Pickering and Chatto to Taylor & Francis". bertolimitchell.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
- ↑ "Bertoli Mitchell arranges the sale of Radcliffe Healthcare to Taylor & Francis".
- ↑ "RFF Press".
- ↑ "St Jerome is now part of Routledge Books".
- ↑ "Bertoli Mitchell arranges the sale of Willan Publishing to Taylor & Francis".
- ↑ "Willan Publishing is Now Routledge".
Further reading
- Munroe, Mary H. (2007). "Taylor & Francis (Informa Group plc)". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Northern Illinois University Libraries. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- Brock, W.H. & Meadows, A.J. (1998). The Lamp Of Learning: Taylor & Francis And Two Centuries Of Publishing. Taylor & Francis.
External links
- Official website
- Taylor & Francis online journals and reference works
- Taylor & Francis eBooks
- Informa Divisions - Academic Publishing
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