Greenwood Publishing Group (GPG) located in Westport, CT is a leading educational publisher (middle school through university level) and is part of the Houghton Mifflin Company. Westport is a coastal town located on Long Island Sound in Fairfield County, Connecticut, 47 miles north of New York City in the United Middle school or Junior High School serves as a "bridge" between the Elementary School and the High School A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational Publisher in the United States. It publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under Praeger Publishers. This article is about a kind of publication Reference work may also refer to the work that librarians perform at a Library reference desk. Also part of GPG are Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers, and Heinemann USA (Portsmouth, NH), which offers books and professional materials for K-12 classroom teachers. Portsmouth is a City in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States. http://www.greenwood.com/about_us/company_profile.aspx
Company History
The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. The company initially focused on reprinting out-of-print works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association’s first edition of Books for College Libraries (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print periodicals published as American Radical Periodicals under the Greenwood Reprint imprint. Out of print refers to an item typically a book (see Out of print books) but can include any print or visual media or Sound recording, that is no longer being published Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally In 1969 the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a company then on the American Stock Exchange, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms. The American Stock Exchange ( AMEX) is an American Stock exchange situated in New York.
By 1970 a small scholarly monograph program was established and Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a division of Academic Press, was hired as Vice President. Academic Press ( London, New York and San Diego) was an Academic Book Publisher that is now part of Elsevier. In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left the company, and Hagelstein was named President, a position he would hold until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities diverting its focus to new scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of the company resulted in the publication of more than 10,000 titles during those years.
On August 25, 1976 the company was sold to the Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) and in 1979 became part of the Dutch publishing giant, Elsevier, following Elsevier’s purchase of CIS. Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group That same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in business and law. A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society
On January 1, 1986 GPG expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded by Fred Praeger in 1949, from CBS, Inc. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. , and in 1989 when it acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House.
At the beginning of 1990 the company’s name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc. to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of Reed Elsevier, and by the mid-1990’s the operational part of GPG joined with Heinemann USA, which had been part of Reed. Reed Elsevier is a global Publisher and information provider It came into being in autumn 1992 as the result of a merger between Reed International a British
When Hagelstein retired at the end of 1999, Wayne Smith was named President, and he continues in that capacity today. Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG’s on line and CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint. On_Line is a 2002 Drama directed by Jed Weintrob and executive produced by Richard D CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable
On July 12, 2001, Reed Elsevier completed its acquisition of Harcourt. Harcourt became a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier and GPG became part of Harcourt Education. Harcourt Education, is a publisher serving the pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 school assessment and trade publishing markets in the US and primary and secondary school markets internationally
On December 13, 2007 GPG became part of Houghton Mifflin Co. as a result of Houghton’s acquisition of Harcourt. (http://www.hmco.com/company/investors/invest/ir_release_121307.html)