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Parent company | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Status | Active |
Founded | 1955 |
Founder | Eric Boehm |
Headquarters location | Santa Barbara, California |
Distribution | self-distributed (US) Edu Reference Publishers Direct (Canada) Ontario Library Association (Libraries Unlimited, Canada) Co Info (Australia) Inbooks (Libraries Unlimited, Australia) Marston Book Services (UK)[1] |
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Publication types | Books, databases, magazines, journals |
Nonfiction topics | History, social sciences |
Imprints | ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Press, Praeger, Libraries Unlimited/Linworth |
Official website | abc-clio.com |
ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings. ABC-Clio provides service to fifteen different online databases which contain over one million online textbooks.[2] The company consults academic leaders in the fields they cover in order to provide authority for their reference titles.[3] The headquarters are located in Santa Barbara, California.