company abc clio status active founded 1967 founder harold mason country of origin united states headquarters location santa barbara california distribution worldwide nonfiction topics reference works scholarly and general interest library and teaching materials imprints greenwood press reference works praeger publishers scholarly and general interest libraries unlimited for libraries and teachers official website www.greenwood.com greenwood publishing group gpg is an educational and academic publisher middle school through university level which is today part of abc clio . established in 1967 and based in westport connecticut 1 greenwood publishing group publishes reference works under its greenwood press imprint and scholarly professional and general interest books under its related imprint praeger publishers . also part of gpg is libraries unlimited which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers . 2 contents 1 history 2 imprints 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . that same year the press initiated its quorum books imprint which published professional titles in business and law . on january 1 1986 gpg expanded yet again when it purchased praeger publishers founded by frederick a. praeger in 1949 3 from cbs inc. 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 1990s the operational part of gpg joined with heinemann usa which had been part of reed . when hagelstein retired at the end of 1999 wayne smith was named president . 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 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 . on december 13 2007 gpg became part of houghton mifflin co. as a result of houghton s acquisition of harcourt . 4 on october 1 2008 houghton mifflin harcourt granted abc clio of santa barbara california a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of gpg excluding heinemann . the offices in westport connecticut closed as a result . 5 imprints edit greenwood press reference works praeger publishers scholarly and general interest libraries unlimited for libraries and teachers references edit company overview of greenwood publishing group inc . businessweek . retrieved 8 may 2013 . about us greenwood publishing company profile . greenwood publishing group . retrieved 2009 09 08 . lyons rd june 5 1994 . frederick a. praeger dies at 78 ; published books on communism . the new york times . retrieved october 16 2012 . houghton mifflin company completes acquisition of harcourt education harcourt trade and greenwood heinemann divisions from reed elsevier creating preeminent k 12 educational publisher . houghton mifflin . 2007 12 13 . retrieved 2008 07 24 . abc clio takes over greenwood . publishers weekly . 2008 10 06 . retrieved 2014 09 20 . external links edit company home page folklib index bio bibliographies by greenwood press all 205 known books published 1982 2005 list of radical periodicals in the united states reissued 1968 70 . list of the 109 radical periodicals reissued by greenwood . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title greenwood publishing group & oldid 731729361 categories publishing companies established in 1967book publishing companies based in connecticutcompanies based in fairfield county connecticut1967 establishments in connecticut navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 27 july 2016 at 04 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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