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CRC
Press Pioneers
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Founded
as the Chemical Rubber Company, CRC originally manufactured and distributed
laboratory supplies for chemists. It first distributed its Handbook
of Chemistry and Physics free as a bonus incentive to customers who
purchased a rubber apron, one of the company’s signature items. In
1913, the first edition of the “Rubber Handbook” had 116 pages.
The electron had been known for only 17 years and the Bohr theory of the
hydrogen atom was still in press. Eighty-four editions later, the CRC
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics remains the definitive reference
for chemists, physicists, and engineers throughout the world. Ninety years
later, CRC Press is a preeminent publisher in life science, medicine,
pharmaceutical science, food science, environmental science, forensic
science, engineering, business, technology, mathematics, and statistics. |
“People
who have interviewed me have
commented on the extensive knowledge that I have about the properties
of substances. I attribute this knowledge in part to the fact that
I possessed the Rubber Handbook.”
—Linus
Pauling, Nobel Laureate,
Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962)
“On
August 11, 1999, CRC Press introduced its first major Web product,
the Chapman & Hall CRC ENGnetBASE… With this innovative and
useful product… CRC has pioneered yet another area of publishing
for the sci-tech community.”
—Tomas
G. De Petro,
Texas A&M University
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Today, CRC Press
provides academicians and researchers with immediate access to information
through a myriad of electronic products. With CD-ROM versions of our
most popular resources, users enjoy customized data and convenient and
extensive search capabilities. CRCnetBASE, our collection of
online databases, provides a portal to an ever-growing supply of information.
Every month, we add new resources to each netBASE to provide
up-to-date, comprehensive information. Following the success of ENGnetBASE,
CHEMnetBASE, ATSDR Online, and ENVIROnetBASE, expect
to see more excellent online collections, including POLYMERSnetBASE,
VisualMEDICINEnetBASE, and BIOTECHnetBASE.
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Who
is CRC Press?
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CRC
Press
In 1973, the Chemical Rubber Company sold their manufacturing
division and related activities. Concentrating exclusively on publishing,
the name was changed to CRC Press, Inc. In 1986, CRC was purchased by
Times Mirror Company and subsequently expanded its product line to include
a broad range of textbooks and references for scientific, medical, and
technical professionals. Information Ventures LLC, in partnership with
Warburg Pincus, purchased CRC Press in January 1997 and changed its name
to CRC Press LLC. CRC Press became a publicly held company under the ownership
of Information Holdings, Inc (IHI) in August 1998. In April 2003, one
great tradition joined another as CRC Press became part of the Taylor
& Francis Group of companies. Founded in 1798, Taylor & Francis
is a leading international academic publisher devoted to disseminating
scholarly information of the highest quality. |
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Lewis
Publishers
Acquiring Lewis Publishers in 1990 expanded CRC’s
professional reference line to include the environmental sciences. Today,
CRC is the leading publisher of books on environmental issues. |
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St.
Lucie Press and
Auerbach Publications
In 1997 CRC acquired St. Lucie Press and Auerbach Publishing,
expanding its presence in the business management and information technology
areas. |
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Food
Chemical News
The July 1992 acquisition of Food Chemical News, the most
widely read weekly newsletter in the food industry, and the 2001 acquisition
of the book division of Technomic Publishing, strengthened CRC’s
position in the food science and food regulation marketplace. |
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Chapman
& Hall / CRC
Under the ownership of IHI, CRC acquired the prestigious
Chapman & Hall statistics and mathematics list from Kluwer Publishers,
as well as the Pitman Mathematics Program from Addison-Wesley Longman. |
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Parthenon
Publishing
In June 2001, Parthenon Publishing, a leading medical publisher
specializing in women’s health, dermatology, and cardiology joined
the group of CRC companies. This acquisition, combined with CRC’s
co-publishing arrangements with Clinical Publishing Services and the prestigious
Mayo Clinic ensure a new stronghold in the clinical medicine arena. |
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Interpharm
/ CRC
November 2002 marked the acquisition of CRC Press’
most recent imprint, Interpharm Press. Interpharm publishes technical
books, pharmacopoeias, and regulatory documents allowing CRC customers
to remain compliant in today’s highly regulated healthcare industry. |
CRC
JOURNALS
CRC Journals provides new methods and applications through
our subscription-based periodicals, including Critical Reviews in Biotechnology,
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment and most recently the Journal
of Children’s Health and Nonlinearity in Biology, Toxicology,
and Medicine. |
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CRCnetBASE
This collection of online libraries provides easy access
to some of the world’s major reference works via the Internet. The
netBASE line includes the award-winning ENGnetBASE, CHEMnetBASE,
ENVIROnetBASE, and ATSDR Online, and other netBASE
libraries in the fields of forensics, food science, information technology,
mathematics, and statistics. |
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