Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located In 2004 it merged with Informa to create a new company called T&F Informa (since simplified back to Informa). Informa plc ( is a United Kingdom based Publisher and Conference company, with offices in more than 40 countries and more than 7500 employees Taylor & Francis Group now makes up the academic publishing arm of Informa.
Taylor & Francis publishes more than 1000 journals, and over 1800 new books each year, with a backlist of over 20,000 titles. The group has at least eight offices, in the United Kingdom, New York, [{Boca Raton]], Philadelphia, Singapore, and Sydney. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Singapore Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4
The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor initially founded his company in 1798. Their subject covered include agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences among others. Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties Education encompasses both the Teaching and Learning of Knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency Engineering is the Discipline and Profession of applying technical and scientific Knowledge and Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies
Since acquiring Routledge in 1997, Taylor & Francis Group has acquired many small and medium sized publishing companies. Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals Some of the imprints acquired include: Bios, Brunner-Routledge, Brunner-Mazel, Carfax, Cavendish, CRC Press, David Fulton Press, Frank Cass, Curzon, Gordon & Breach, Marcel Dekker, Martin Dunitz, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Parthenon Publishing, Spon Press, Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers, Taylor Graham Journals. The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group which specializes in producing technical books in a wide range of subjects