Taylor & Francis
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| Parent company | Informa |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Founder | William Francis and Richard Taylor |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire United Kingdom |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Roger Horton (CEO); Ian Bannerman (MD, Journals); Jeremy North (MD, Books); Christoph Chesher (Group Sales Director). |
| Publication types | Peer-reviewed books & journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Humanities, Social Science, Behavioural Science, Education, Law, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| Fiction genres | Non-Fiction. Academic & Scholarly |
| Imprints | Routledge (Humanities, Social science, Education & Law); Taylor & Francis, CRC Press & Garland Science (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) |
| Revenue |
£447.4M in 2015; £408.9M in 2014. |
| Number of employees | 1,800 |
| Official website | www |
£447.4M in 2015;
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.
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.
From 1917 to 1930 Francis' son, Richard Taunton Francis (1883–1930) was sole partner in the firm.
In 1965 Taylor & Francis launched Wykeham Publications and began book publishing. In 1988 it acquired Hemisphere Publishing and the company was renamed Taylor & Francis Group to reflect the growing number of imprints. In 1990 Taylor & Francis exited from the printing business to concentrate on publishing. In 1998 Taylor & Francis Group went public on the London Stock Exchange and in the same year the group purchased its academic publishing rival Routledge for £90 million.Acquisitions of other publishers has remained a core part of the group’s business strategy. 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.
Taylor & Francis publishes more than 2,400 journals, and approximately 6,500 new books each year, with a backlist of over 110,000 titles available in print and digital formats. It uses the Routledge imprint for its publishing in humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, law and education and the Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and Garland Science imprints for its publishing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Although generally considered the smallest of the 'Big Four' STEM publishers, its Routledge imprint is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. The journals and e-books have been delivered through the Taylor & Francis Online website since June 2011. Prior to that they were provided through the Informaworld website. Taylor & Francis operates a number of platforms for its digital content including Routledge Handbooks Online, the Routledge Performance Archive, Secret Intelligence Files and CRC Netbase. Taylor & Francis offers Open Access publishing options in both its books and journals divisions and through its Cogent Open Access journals imprint.
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