Ablex Publishing
American publishing company
Ablex Publishing Corporation is a privately held publisher of books and academic journals in New York City, New York, USA. It was previously located in Norwood, New Jersey, and also at one time in Westport and Stamford, Connecticut. Ablex publishes edited volumes, monographs, research journals, and textbooks, focused on communication, education, library science, psychology, and technology. In 1997, Ablex became an affiliate company of the JAI Press subsidiary of Elsevier Science, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature. Ablex merged as an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group in or after 2000; Greenwood itself was also part of Reed Elsevier since 1993, further merged with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2007, then sold with all imprints to ABC-Clio in 2008 (now a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing).
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