Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Status	Active
Founded	1852
Founder	William Francis & Richard Taylor
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Distribution	Worldwide
Publication types	Books and peer-reviewed journals
Nonfiction topics	Medicine, science, social science, mathematics, law, engineering & more
Imprints	Various
Official website	www.taylorandfrancis.com/

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.

Overview

Previous Taylor & Francis logo from a 1900 publication

The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor initially founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered include agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences among others.

Taylor & Francis publishes more than 1,000 journals, and over 1,800 new books each year, with a backlist of over 20,000 titles. The group has at least nine offices, in the United Kingdom, New York, Boca Raton, Philadelphia, Singapore, Sydney, and India.

Taylor & Francis merged with Informa in 2004 to create a new company called T&F Informa, since renamed back to Informa. Taylor & Francis Group is now the academic publishing arm of Informa.

The old Taylor and Francis logo depicts a hand pouring oil into a lit lamp, along with the Latin phrase "alere flammam" (to feed the flame). The modern logo is a stylised oil lamp in a circle.

Acquired companies

• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (acquired in 2006)
• Routledge (acquired in 1998)
• BIOS Scientific Publishers
• Brunner-Routledge
• Brunner-Mazel
• Carfax
• Cavendish
• CRC Press
• Curzon
• David Fulton Press
• Earthscan
• Europa Publications (acquired in 1999)
• Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (acquired in 2002)
• Frank Cass
• Gordon & Breach
• Heldref Publications (Except World Affairs) (acquired in 2009)
• Marcel Dekker
• Martin Dunitz
• Parthenon Publishing
• Psychology Press
• RFF Press
• Spon Press
• Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers
• Taylor Graham Journals
• Haworth Press
• Garland Science

See also

• List of Taylor & Francis journals

Further reading

• Munroe, Mary H. (2007). "Taylor & Francis (Informa Group plc)". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Northern Illinois University Libraries. http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/TaylorFrancis.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 

External links

• Taylor & Francis official website