ABC-Clio

ABC-Clio, LLC
Parent companyBloomsbury Publishing
StatusActive
Founded1955
FounderEric Boehm
Headquarters locationSanta Barbara, California
Distributionself-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]
Key people
  • Ron Boehm (CEO)
  • Becky Snyder (President)
Publication typesBooks, databases, magazines, journals
Nonfiction topicsHistory, social sciences
ImprintsABC-CLIO, Greenwood Press, Praeger, Libraries Unlimited/Linworth
Official websitewww.abc-clio.com Edit this at Wikidata

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

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.

  1. ^ "ABC-CLIO Solutions – Contact Us". Archived from the original on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  2. ^ Noonoo, Stephen (2 April 2015). "Database Offers 1 Million Free Resources and Images in April". eSchool News. Archived from the original on Sep 8, 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  3. ^ Vnuk, Rebecca (15 September 2012). "Encyclopedia Update: Reboot, 2012". Booklist. 109 (2): 52–56. ISSN 0006-7385. Retrieved 8 May 2015.

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