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ABC-CLIO COMPANY PROFILE
ABC-CLIO combines more than 50 years of experience as the premier education and library publisher with a deep commitment to using digital and other emerging technologies to publish the highest quality materials. A privately held publisher of educational and reference products under the leadership of CEO Ron Boehm and President Becky Snyder, ABC-CLIO works with more than 5,000 scholars and educators to develop its collection of award-winning print and online history, reference, and resource publications. The company's headquarters is in Santa Barbara, California, with branch offices in Denver, Colorado.
To stay at the forefront of publishing high-quality reference materials using the most innovative technology available, ABC-CLIO takes pride in constantly reinventing itself. New technologies, new paradigms, and new business models provide great opportunity for innovation that will positively impact scholarship, education, and libraries. Today, ABC-CLIO publishes under four well-respected imprints:
- ABC-CLIO serves the history profession, history teachers, and students and scholars of history with a complete line of award-winning databases, books, and eBooks, along with social studies reference and curriculum resources for middle and high school libraries and classrooms, as well as the higher education market
- Greenwood Press publishes high-quality, authoritative reference books on general interest topics including popular culture, multicultural studies, and the American immigrant experience across the secondary and higher education curriculum
- Praeger is widely regarded for scholarly and professional books in the social sciences and humanities, with an emphasis in modern history, military studies, psychology, business, current events and social issues, international affairs, politics, visual and performing arts, and literature
- Libraries Unlimited/Linworth publishes professional materials for librarians, media specialists, and teachers
ABC-CLIO's online and print reference resources have garnered hundreds of awards from education and library professional publications, academic associations, and education, library, and technology industry organizations. Its reference titles have been recognized by Library Journal, Choice and Booklist with honors such as "Outstanding Academic Title" and "Outstanding Reference Source," as well as "Editor's Choice" designations. ABC-CLIO's collection of subscription databases has earned accolades from awards programs such as Association of Educational Publishers' Distinguished Achievement Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association's CODiE Awards, the Best Educational Software Awards, and from education and library periodicals' awards and "Reader's Choice" programs. Recognized in the library and education communities as a leading publisher of high-quality reference materials, ABC-CLIO's publications consistently earn positive reviews and recommendations from top academic, professional, and technology journals.
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