Ablex Publishing Corporation is a privately held
publisher
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of books and
academic journal
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s in
New York City, New York
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, USA. It was previously located in
Norwood, New Jersey, and also at one time in
Westport and
Stamford, Connecticut
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.
Ablex publishes edited volumes,
monograph
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s,
research journals, and
textbook
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s, focused on communication, education,
library science
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, psychology, and technology.
In 1997, Ablex became an affiliate company of the JAI Press
subsidiary
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of
Elsevier Science,
the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature. Ablex merged as an imprint of
Greenwood Publishing Group
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in or after 2000; Greenwood itself was also part of
Reed Elsevier since 1993, further merged with
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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in 2007, then sold with all imprints to
ABC-Clio in 2008 (now a subsidiary of
Bloomsbury Publishing).
Partial list of titles and imprints
* ''Ablex Communication, Culture & Information Series''
* ''Ablex series in
computational science''
* ''Ablex series in
software engineering
Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Application software, software applications. It involves applying engineering design process, engineering principl ...
''
* ''Ablex series in
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
'',
Jerry Hobbs, editor
* ''Ablex Theoretical Issues in Cognitive Science''
* ''Advances in
Human-Computer Interaction''
* ''
Cognitive development
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''
* ''Cognitive science: journal of the
Cognitive Science Society''
* ''
Early Childhood Research Quarterly''
* ''International Journal of
Bilingualism''
* ''
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...
and education: an international research journal''
* ''
National Women's Studies Association Journal''
* ''New directions in computers and composition studies''
* ''The David C. Anchin series in social and policy issues in education''
References
External links
Library and information science research titles of Ablex
Magazine publishing companies of the United States
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
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