Blackwell Publishing is the world's largest privately owned, independent, academic publishing company. The company publishes books and journals for the higher education, research and professional markets. The majority of journals are published on behalf of scholarly societies ensuring that the content is of the highest quality and relevance. Blackwell Publishers embraces new technology to streamline production processes, deliver content directly to readers, and improve the research experience. Its website is www.blackwellpublishing.com.
The current Blackwell Publishing was founded in 2001 by merging Blackwell Publishers (founded in 1926) and Blackwell Science (founded in 1939). Now, Blackwell Publishing is the world's leading society publisher, partnering with more than 600 academic and professional societies. Blackwell publishes over 750 journals and 600 text and reference books annually, across a wide range of academic, medical, and professional subjects. Blackwell remains independent with over 900 staff members in offices in the US, UK, Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, and Japan.
For over 75 years the Blackwell company has built an international reputation for providing the best in publishing services. What started as a small bookstore near the university in Oxford, United Kingdom, grew into a leading global publishing company at the forefront of scholarly and professional electronic publishing. Blackwell Publishing began as two publishing companies, Blackwell Publishers and Blackwell Science. Blackwell Publishers focused on the humanities and social sciences, while Blackwell Science was devoted to medicine, scientific and professional publishing. They joined forces and became Blackwell Publishing in 2001. Over the last century, Blackwell Publishing has grown to be the world's leading society publisher, with a list of 750 journals, 4500 books in print, and more than 600 new books published each year.
