Thanks very much, Anna Belle. Yes, we should include the associations
under the independents, and thank you for the cite to the ACQWEB legal
publisher's list. I should have included URLs in my original posting.
Rob Richards
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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Anna Belle Leiserson wrote:
> This is a terrific list. To the independent publishers, I would
> also add associations (e.g. ABA and ALI). In other disciplines,
> physics in particular, associations as publishers have taken on
> increasing importance (thinking of the recent finding favoring AIP
> and APS over Gordon & Breach). An aside: it seems to me physicists
> are trail-blazers for information dissemination, so I like to pay
> attention to what they are up to.
>
> Also, for those wanting a list of law publishers with Web sites, see
> that section of AcqWeb at:
> http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr/law.html
>
> Anna Belle Leiserson
> Vanberbilt Law Library
>
> > Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:04:15 -0600
> > From: Rob Richards <rrichard@stripe.colorado.edu>
> > Subject: Legal publisher ownership list
> > To: MHOAK@MAIL.OPEN.ORG, law-lib@ucdavis.edu
>
> > Hello Marcia:
> >
> > Here is a list that I created for our staff a few weeks ago. This list
> > omits just a few vendors with whom we don't deal. For the complete lists,
> > you might want to consult publisher's websites.
> >
> > I hope this is useful.
> >
> > Rob Richards
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The Shape of Legal Publishing Today (6/26/97)
> >
> > Five major "families" of legal publishers:
> > 1. Thomson Corporation
> > 2. Reed Elsevier
> > 3. Wolters Kluwer
> > 4. Times Mirror
> > 5. The "Indies"
> >
> > 1. Thomson Corporation:
> > West Group
> > RIA Group
> > Gale Research
> > Routledge
> > Primary Source Media
> >
> > A. West Group:
> > West Publishing
> > Lawyers Coop
> > Bancroft-Whitney
> > Clark Boardman Callaghan
> > Shepard's Treatises
> > Barclays Law Publishers
> > Compuclerk
> > Counterpoint Publishing
> > Legal Solutions
> > Foundation Press
> > Information America
> > Rutter Group
> >
> > B. RIA Group
> > RIA
> > Warren Gorham & Lamont
> > Auerbach
> > Practitioners Publishing
> >
> > 2. Reed Elsevier
> > Lexis Law Publishing
> > Butterworths
> > Editions du Juris-Classeur
> >
> > Lexis Law Publishing
> > Lexis-Nexis
> > CIS
> > Martindale-Hubbell
> > Shepard's Citations
> > National Information Services
> > Michie
> > Folio
> > National Register Publishing
> >
> >
> > 3. Wolters Kluwer
> > Aspen (incorporating Little, Brown)
> > CCH
> > Kluwer Law International
> >
> > 4. Times Mirror
> > Matthew Bender
> > Shepard's
> >
> > Shepard's
> > Jointly owned by Reed Elsevier/Lexis-Nexis
> > & Times Mirror/Matthew Bender
> >
> > 5. The "Indies"
> > Wiley Law
> > Nolo
> > Island Press
> > University Presses
> > ?
> >
> > *********************************************************
> > Robert C. Richards, Jr., M.A., M.S.L.I.S
> >
> > Technical Services Librarian
> > University of Colorado Law Library
> > Campus Box 402
> > Boulder, Colorado 80309-0402
> > Telephone: (303) 492-7535
> > Fax: (303) 492-2707
> > E-mail: rrichard@stripe.Colorado.EDU
> >
> > *********************************************************
> >
>
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