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{{short description|Educational and academic publisher}}

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|country = United States

|headquarters = [[Santa Barbara, California]]

|imprints = ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Greenwood Press, Greenwood World Publishing, Heinemann USA (1990s to 2008), Libraries Unlimited, Praeger Publishers

|url = {{Official URL}}

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'''Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.''' ('''GPG'''), is an educational and academic publisher ([[middle school]] through [[university]] level) which is part of [[ABC-Clio]]. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and its suite of [[Imprint (trade_name)|imprints]], including GPG, are collectively imprints of British publishing house [[Bloomsbury Publishing]].

'''Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.''' ('''GPG'''), also known as '''ABC-Clio/Greenwood''' (stylized '''ABC-CLIO/Greenwood'''), is an educational and academic publisher ([[middle school]] through [[university]] level) which is today part of [[ABC-Clio]]. Established in 1967 as '''Greenwood Press, Inc.''' and based in [[Westport, Connecticut]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=1510370|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009130758/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=1510370|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 9, 2012|title=Company Overview of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc|publisher=Businessweek|access-date=8 May 2013}}</ref> GPG publishes [[reference works]] under its Greenwood Press [[Imprint (trade_name)|imprint]], and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, '''Praeger Publishers''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|r|eɪ|g|ər}}). Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenwood.com/about_us/company_profile.aspx |title=About us: Greenwood publishing company profile |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |access-date=September 8, 2009 |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501225933/http://abc-clio.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>▼

▲'''Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.''' ('''GPG'''), also known as '''ABC-Clio/Greenwood''' (stylized '''ABC-CLIO/Greenwood'''), is an educational and academic publisher ([[middle school]] through [[university]] level) which is today part of [[ABC-Clio]]. Established in 1967 as '''Greenwood Press, Inc.''' and based in [[Westport, Connecticut]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=1510370 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009130758/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=1510370 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 9, 2012 |title=Company Overview of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc |publisher=Businessweek |access-date=8 May 2013}}</ref> GPG publishes [[reference works]] under its Greenwood Press [[Imprint (trade_name)|imprint]], and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, '''Praeger Publishers''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|r|eɪ|g|ər}}). Also part of GPG is '''Libraries Unlimited''', which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenwood.com/about_us/company_profile.aspx |title=About us: Greenwood publishing company profile |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |access-date=September 8, 2009 |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501225933/http://abc-clio.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Since 2021, ABC-Clio and its suite of imprints are collectively imprints of British publishing house [[Bloomsbury Publishing]].

==History==

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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, GPI expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded as Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. in 1950 by [[Frederick A. Praeger (publisher)|Frederick A. Praeger]] in 1949,<ref>{{cite news |urlauthor=Richard D. Lyons |title=Frederick A. Praeger Dies at 78; Published Books on Communism |work=[[The New York Times]] |department=Obituaries |date=1994-06-05 |page=48 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/obituaries/frederick-a-praeger-dies-at-78-published-books-on-communism.html |title=Frederick A. Praeger Dies at 78; Published Books on Communism |access-date=October 16, 20122024-09-14 |lasturl-access=Lyonssubscription |firstarchive-url=Rhttps://web. Darchive.org/web/20101009094658/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/obituaries/frederick-a-praeger-dies-at-78-published-books-on-communism.html |workarchive-date=[[The New York Times]]2010-10-09 |dateurl-status=June 5, 1994 live}}</ref> from [[CBS|CBS, Inc.]],<!--- its name from 1974 to 1996 ---><ref>{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |title=CBS Agrees to Sell Praeger Publishers Unit |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-datedepartment=January 20, 2018Arts |date=December 1985-12-18, |page=C22 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/18/arts/cbs-agrees-to-sell-praeger-publishers-unit.html |access-date=2024-09-14 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524170658/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/18/arts/cbs-agrees-to-sell-praeger-publishers-unit.html |archive-date=2015-05-24 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.