Academic Press
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969. Reed Elsevier said in 2000 it would buy Harcourt, a deal completed the next year, after a regulatory review.  Thus, Academic Press is now an imprint of Elsevier.

Academic Press publishes reference books, serials and online products in the subject areas of:
 Communications engineering
 Economics
 Environmental science
 Finance
 Food science and nutrition
 Geophysics
 Life sciences
 Mathematics and statistics
 Neuroscience
 Physical sciences
 Psychology

Well-known products include the Methods in Enzymology series and encyclopedias such as The International Encyclopedia of Public Health and the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.

See also
 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (AVG) — the German predecessor, founded in 1906 by Leo Jolowicz (1868–1940), the father of Walter Jolowicz and father-in-law of Kurt Jacoby

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Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies of the United States
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts
Elsevier imprints
Publishing companies established in 1941