Reference publishers

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publishing arm of the University of Oxford

Routledge ( ) is an English multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year, and its backlist encompasses over 140,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within the humanities and social sciences.

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries. It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States.

French publisher

Intelligence provider and publisher of military guides from Coulsdon, Surrey, UK

British-American publisher; publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica

Langenscheidt () is a German publishing company that specializes in language reference works. In addition to publishing monolingual dictionaries, Langenscheidt also publishes bilingual dictionaries and travel phrase-books.

American encyclopedia

British publishing company known for children's books

yearly publication of most official radio and TV services in the world

Grolier is one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of a CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003).

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