University Press of America is an
academic publisher
Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally pub ...
based in the United States. Part of the independent
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing comp ...
Publishing Group, it was founded in 1975 and states that it has published "more than 10,000 academic, scholarly, and biographical titles in many disciplines".
It acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took that name for the parent company.
The American Philosophical Association makes the following statement on University Press of America: "UPA has delivered high quality research and textbooks into the hands of students and faculty in a timely manner since its founding in 1975." (www.apaonline.org)
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Publishing companies established in 1975
Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies of the United States
Book publishing companies based in Maryland
American companies established in 1975
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