Core Approval Publishers, United Kingdom
The list represents, in our experience, those publishers currently producing the main body of titles of academic interest in the UK, Ireland and a few selected European countries. We have included a number of distributors of small presses on this list. The output of these presses will be covered selectively based on suitability of titles.
We will select and supply, either as book or form, titles of academic interest from all publishers on the list with the following broad exceptions: children’s books, do-it-yourself manuals, leisure interests, learning materials, non-book materials, periodicals and books that are low-level/popular and not appropriate for academic library approval plans. A designation of “forms only” indicates that, due to non-returnability, a publisher is covered as forms only. A number of publishers are followed by the statement, “selective coverage” which indicates that some of their output is not suitable for academic collections.
The list of publishers will be revised semi-annually to include new publishers and to reflect changes in publisher organisation, ownership and development. If you have any comments on this list or suggestions for revision, please contact your Regional Sales Manager or email BBSUK.NewTitles@Blackwell.co.uk.
We have also made available for you the latest information on what we have changed, added, or deleted from our publisher list.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z
- A
- Abacus (see Little, Brown UK)
- Absolute Classics/Oberon Books
- Absolute Press (selective coverage)
- Academic Press (see Elsevier)
- Academy Editions (see Wiley Academy)
- Acumen Publishing Ltd
- Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education
- Airlift Book Company (see Publishers Group UK)
- AK Press
- Akros Publications
- Ian Allan (selective coverage)
- Allison & Busby
- Alpha Press/Sussex Academic Press
- Alpha Science International Ltd.
- Amber Lane Press
- An Sagart St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
- Angel Books/PGUK
- Angela Royal Publishing/PGUK
- Anglo-Norman Text Society
- Anglo-Saxon Books
- Anthem Press
- Antique Collector’s Club (selective coverage)
- Anvil Press Poetry
- Apollos
- APS Publishing
- Arc Publications
- Arcadia Books
- Architectural Association (Forms only)
- Architectural Press/Elsevier
- Arden Shakespeare/Thomson Learning
- Aris & Phillips/Oxbow Books
- Aristotelian Society
- Arms & Armour Press
- Arnold/Hodder Education
- Art Dictionaries Ltd
- Ashgate
- Ashmolean Museum Publications
- Aslib
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Athlone Press/Continuum International
- Atlantic Books
- Atlas Press
- Attic Press (see Cork University Press)
- Auteur Publishing
- Aurum Press (selective coverage)
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- B
- Bailliere Tindall/Elsevier
- Banipal Books
- Banner of Truth Trust
- Bantam Press
- Barrie & Jenkins/Random House
- J Bartholomew
- Basement Press (see Cork University Press)
- B T Batsford (selective coverage)
- BBC Worldwide (selective coverage)
- Mitchell Beazley
- Berg Publishers Ltd
- Berghahn Books
- Between the Lines
- Beyond the Pale Publications
- BFI Publishing
- BHR Group Ltd
- Biochemical Society/Portland Press
- BIOS Scientific Publishers (see Garland Science)
- Birlinn Ltd
- A & C Black Ltd (selective coverage)
- Blackstaff Press
- Blackstone Press Ltd/Oxford University Press
- Blackwell Publishing
- Blackwell Science
- Blandford Press
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Blueprint Publishers
- Bluechrome Publishing
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Bodleian Library
- Book Guild
- Bookmarks Publications
- Books for Midwives Press
- Booth-Clibborn Editions
- Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
- Marion Boyars
- Boydell & Brewer
- BPS Blackwell/Blackwell Publishing
- Brandon Book Publishers
- Brassey’s (UK)
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
- D S Brewer
- Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth
- British Academy
- British Library, Marketing & Publishing Office
- British Library, Science Reference & Information Service
- British Museum Press
- British School at Athens
- British School at Rome
- Brunner-Routledge
- Burns & Oates (see Continuum)
- Butterworth
- Butterworth Architecture (see Architectural Press)
- Butterworth-Heinemann
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- C
- CABI Publishing
- Cadogan Chess Books see Everyman Chess
- Francis Cairns
- Calder Publications (see Oneworld Publications)
- Cambridge University Press
- Canongate Books
- Canterbury Press (selective coverage)
- Jonathan Cape/Random House
- Capstone Publishing
- Carcanet Press
- Cardiff Academic Press
- Carlton Books (selective coverage)
- Jon Carpenter Publishing
- Frank Cass/Routledge
- Cassell
- Catholic Institute for International Relations (see Progressio)
- Cavendish Publishing (UK)
- Centre for Information on Language Teaching & Research
- Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies
- Century
- Century Business
- Chambers
- Chandos Publishing Ltd
- Channel View Publications
- Chapman (Edinburgh)
- Geoffrey Chapman Publishers
- Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd
- Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
- Chatham House
- Chatham Publishing
- Chatto & Windus/Random House
- Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
- Civil-Comp Press
- Clarendon Press (see Oxford University Press)
- James Clarke & Co
- Classical Press of Wales
- CML Publications
- Peter Collin Publishing
- William Collins
- Collins and Brown (selective coverage)
- Collins Press
- Comma Press
- Columba Press
- Company of Biologists
- Computational Mechanics Publications Ltd (see WIT Press)
- Constable & Robinson (selective coverage)
- Continuum
- Conway Maritime Press (selective coverage)
- Cork University Press
- Cornerhouse
- Creation Books
- James Currey Publishers
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- D
- Dance Books
- Dartmouth Publishing Co
- Darton Longman & Todd
- David & Charles (selective coverage)
- Giles de la Mare
- Dedalus Ltd (Cambridge)
- Dedalus Press Dublin
- Demos
- Richard Dennis Publications
- J M Dent & Sons (selective coverage)
- Deo Publishing
- Design Council
- Andre Deutsch (selective coverage)
- Diehard Publishers
- Director Books
- Tom Donovan Publishing
- Doubleday Publishers (UK)
- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- Gerald Duckworth
- Dunedin Academic Press
- Martin Dunitz Ltd
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- E
- Early English Text Society
- Earthscan Publications
- Echoes
- Edinburgh University Press
- Educational Heretics Press
- Egg Box Publishing
- Elastic Press
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Aidan Ellis
- Elsevier
- EMAS Ltd
- Enitharmon Press
- Eothen Press
- Epworth Press (see SCM-Canterbury Press)
- Equinox Publishing
- Erlbaum (UK) (see Taylor & Francis)
- ESC Publishing
- Euromoney Publications
- Europa Publications Ltd/Routledge
- Everyman Chess
- Everyman Paperbacks/Orion
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- F
- Faber & Faber
- Facet Publishing
- Family Law
- Farrand Press/Portland Press
- Financial Times Prentice Hall
- Fishing News
- Five Leaves Publications
- Flambard Press
- Flamingo
- Floris Books (selective coverage)
- Focal Press/Elsevier
- Fontana Press
- Fount Paperbacks
- Four Courts Press
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- Free Association Books
- Free Press
- Free Press (UK)
- FT.Com (see Financial Times Prentice Hall)
- David Fulton Publishers/Routledge
- Fyfield Books/Carcanet
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- G
- Gallery Press
- Gandon Editions
- Garland Science/Taylor & Francis
- Garnet Publishing/Ithaca Press
- Gartan
- Gaskell Press (see Royal College of Psychiatrists)
- Geography Publications
- GeoInformation International
- Gibson Square
- Gill & Macmillan (selective coverage)
- GLAS
- Glasshouse Press/Cavendish Publishing
- Global Books
- Global Oriental
- Goldsmith Press Ltd
- Golgonooza Press
- Victor Gollancz (see Orion Books)
- Gomer Press
- Gower Publishing
- Gracewing (Fowler Wright Books)
- Grafton
- Graham & Trotman
- Graham & Whiteside
- Grant & Cutler Ltd
- Granta Books
- W Green & Sons
- Green Books
- Greenhill Books
- Greenleaf Publishing
- Greenwich Medical Media
- Grey Seal Books
- Griffith Institute
- Grotius Publications
- Guinness Superlatives Ltd
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- H
- Peter Halban Publishers Ltd (selective coverage)
- Robert Hale (selective coverage)
- Hambledon & London
- Hamish Hamilton (see Penguin Books)
- Handsel Press
- Hansib Publishing
- Harper, John
- HarperCollins Publishers (selective coverage)
- Harrap (Chambers-Harrap)
- Hart Publishing Ltd (Oxford)
- Harvill Press/Random House
- Haus Publishing
- Hazar Publishing
- Headline Book Publishing Ltd
- Hearing Eye
- William Heinemann
- Heinemann
- Helicon
- Helm Information Ltd
- Christopher Helm Publications (see A & C Black)
- Herbert Press (see A & C Black)
- Heretic Books
- Hermes Penton Press (see Kogan page Science)
- Nick Hern Books
- Hesperus
- Hisarlik Press
- Hochland & Hochland Publications
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Hogarth Press
- Paul Holberton Publishing
- Honno
- Horizon Scientific Press
- Horwood Publishing
- House of Lochar
- C Hurst & Co Publishers
- Hutchinson/Random House
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- I
- Icon Books (selective coverage)
- IET/Institution of Engineering and Technology
- IFR Publishing Ltd
- Imperial College Press
- Imperial War Museum
- Imprint Academic
- Indigo
- The Industrial Society
- Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London)
- Institute of Classical Studies (University of London)
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Institute of Historical Research (University of London)
- Institute of Personnel & Development (see Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development)
- Institute of Physics Publishing/ Taylor & Francis
- Institute of Public Administration
- Institution of Chemical Engineers - IChemE
- Institution of Civil Engineers
- Institution of Mining & Metallurgy
- Intellect Ltd
- Intercept
- International Group of the Library Association (see International Library and Information Group)
- International Institute for Strategic Studies
- International Library and Information Group
- InterVarsity Press
- Irish Academic Press
- IRL Press (see Oxford University Press)
- Iron Press
- Isis Medical Media
- ITDG Publishing (see Practical Action Publishing)
- Ithaca Press/Garnet Publishing
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- J
- James & James (Science Publisher) Ltd
- Japan Library Ltd
- John Donald/Birlinn
- Jordan Publishing Ltd
- Michael Joseph (see Penguin Books)
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- K
- Kahn & Averill
- H Karnac Books Ltd
- Karnak House
- Katabasis
- Kegan Paul International
- Mac Keith Press/Blackwell Publishing
- Laurence King Publishing
- King’s College London, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies
- King’s Fund
- King’s Fund Centre
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Kogan Page
- Kogan Page Science
- KPI International
- Kyle Cathie (selective coverage)
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- L
- Lagan Press
- Landmark Publishing (selective coverage)
- Allen Lane
- Latin America Bureau
- Lawrence & Wishart
- Laxton’s
- Legenda
- Leicester University Press/Continuum
- Lemos & Crane
- Lennard Publishing
- Leo Cooper/Pen and Sword
- Library Association (see Facet Publishing)
- Libris Ltd
- The Liffey Press
- Lilliput Press
- Little Brown UK/Time Warner
- Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Liverpool Academic Press
- Liverpool Business Press
- Liverpool University Press
- Llanerch Publishers
- Chris Lloyd Sales & Marketing (distributor of small presses - selective coverage)
- Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd - see LLP Ltd
- LLP Limited
- Longman
- Lucky Duck Publishing Ltd (selective coverage)/ Sage Publications Ltd
- Lund Humphries
- Lutterworth
- Luzac Oriental
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- M
- Macmillan
- Maia Press
- Manchester University Press
- Mandarin Paperbacks
- Mandolin
- Mansell
- Manson Publishing
- Mare’s Nest Publishing
- Marino Books (See Mercier Press)
- Marshall Pickering
- McGraw-Hill Book Company in Europe
- Menard Press
- Mercat Press (selective coverage)
- Mercier Press
- Merit Publishing International
- Merlin Press
- Merrell Publishers Ltd
- Methuen London
- Middlesex University Press
- Millenium Paperbacks (selective coverage)
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Mosby UK/Elsevier
- Mount Eagle Publications
- Multi Science Publishing Co Ltd
- Multilingual Matters
- John Murray
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- N
- National Galleries of Scotland
- National Gallery Publications
- National Maritime Museum
- National Museum of Science & Industry
- National Museum of Wales
- National Museums of Scotland
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Trust (selective coverage)
- Natural History Museum
- New Clarion Press
- New Island Books
- Newnes/Elsevier
- Nonesuch Press
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd
- Norvik Press Ltd
- Nottingham University Press
- Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
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- O
- Oak Tree Press
- Oberon Books
- O’Brien Press
- Oneworld Publications
- Open Gate Press
- Open University Press/McGraw-Hill
- Oriel Paperbacks
- Orion Books (selective coverage)
- Othila Press
- Peter Owen
- Oxbow Books
- Oxfam Publications
- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- Oxford University Press
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- P
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Palladian Law Publishing
- Pan Books (selective coverage)
- Pandora Press
- Andreas Papadakis Publishers
- Papermac
- Parthenon Publishing/Taylor & Francis
- Parthian Books
- Paternoster Publishing
- Pavilion Books (selective coverage)
- Payback Press
- Pearson Education
- Peepal Tree Press
- Pen & Sword Books (selective coverage)
- Penguin Books
- Penton Press (see Kogan Page Science)
- Pergamon Books/Elsevier
- Peter Peregrinus
- Peterloo Poets
- Phaidon Press
- Phoenix ELT
- Phoenix House (see Orion Books)
- Phoenix Paperbacks (see Orion Books)
- Phoenix Press (selective coverage)
- Pica Press (see A & C Black)
- Picador
- Pilkington Press Ltd
- Pimlico/Random House
- Pinter Publishers
- Pion
- Pisces Press London
- Pluto Press
- Poetry Wales Press
- Policy Press
- Policy Research Institute
- Politico’s Publishing Ltd
- Polity Press
- Polygon at Edinburgh
- Polygon Books
- Poolbeg Press
- Portland Press
- Practical Action Publishing
- Prentice-Hall Europe
- Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd
- Profile Books
- Progressio
- Prometheus Trust
- Prospect Books
- Psychology Press
- Publishers Group UK (distributor of small presses)
- Pushkin Press
- Putnam Aeronautical Books
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- Q
- Quartet Books
- Quay Books
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- R
- Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd
- Random House
- Random House Business Books
- Readers International
- Reaktion Books
- Rebel Inc
- Redbeck Press
- Redcliffe Press Ltd
- Reed Reference Publishing
- Regnum Books
- Remedica Publishing
- Reportage Press
- Research Studies Press
- Resurgence Books
- Reuters (Pearson Education)
- Richmond Law and Tax
- Richmond Publishing Co
- Rivers Oram Publishers
- Robson Books
- Rockingham Press
- Barry Rose Publishers
- Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell
- Routledge
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Royal Collection Enterprises
- Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
- Royal College of Physicians
- RCPsych Publications (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
- Royal Historical Society
- Royal Irish Academy
- Royal Society
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Rubicon Press Ltd
- Michael Russell Publishers
- Rutherford House
- Rutland Press
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- S
- Sage Publications Ltd
- Saint James Press Ltd
- St Pauls
- Salmon Publishing
- Sambrook and Tooze
- Sansom & Company
- Saqi Books
- W B Saunders & Co Ltd/Elsevier
- Saxe-Coburg Publications
- Sayce Publishing
- Scala Books
- Scarlet Press
- Sceptre
- School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London)
- Science Press
- SCM Press
- Scorpion Cavendish
- Scottish Academic Press
- Scottish Cultural Press
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- Scribner (UK)
- Scribner/Town House
- Scutari Press
- Secker & Warburg (see Random House)
- Seren Books
- Serif
- Serindia Publications
- Serpent’s Tail
- Shad Thames Books
- Shakespeare Head Press Ltd
- Shaw & Sons
- Sheed & Ward
- Sheffield Academic Press
- Shepheard-Walwyn
- Short Books (selective coverage)
- Sidgwick & Jackson (selective coverage)
- Signal Books
- Signature Book Representation (distributor of small presses)
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Smith/Doorstop Books
- Smith-Gordon & Co Ltd
- Smokestack Books
- Colin Smythe (Forms only)
- Society for Endocrinology
- Society for Experimental Biology
- Society for Research into Higher Education
- Society of Antiquaries of London
- Spa Books Ltd
- SPCK
- Spektrum Academic Press
- Spellmount Ltd
- Spiro Press
- Spokesman Books
- Spon Press/Taylor & Francis
- Springer-Praxis
- Springer-Verlag (UK)
- Stacey International
- Patrick Stephens
- Stride Publications
- Studio Vista
- Sussex Academic Press
- Sutton Publishing
- Swan Hill Press
- Sweet & Maxwell
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- T
- T & A D Poyser Ltd
- T & T Clark/Continuum
- Tamesis Books
- Tate Gallery
- I B Tauris
- Tauris Academic Studies
- Taylor & Francis
- Thomas Telford Ltd
- Tempus Publishing
- Terra Publishing
- Texere
- Textile Institute
- TFM Publishing
- Thames & Hudson
- James Thin
- Third Millennium Publishers
- Thoemmes Continuum
- Thomson Learning
- Nelson Thornes Ltd
- Thorogood Publishing Ltd
- Thorsons
- Time Warner Books UK
- Times Books
- Times Mirror International Ltd
- Tindal Street Press
- Town House and Country House
- Trentham Books
- Triangle Books
- Ken Trotman Publishing (distributor of small presses)
- Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Tuckwell Press
- Turnaround Distribution (distributor of small presses)
- Shaun Tyas/Paul Watkins
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- U
- UCL Press - University College of London
- Ulster Historical Foundation
- Unicorn Press
- University College Dublin Press
- University College Dublin, Foundation for Italian Studies
- University of Birmingham Press
- University of Exeter Press
- University of Hertfordshire Press/ Central Books
- University of London Institute of Classical Studies
- University of London Institute of Historical Research
- University of London Institute for the Study of the Americas
- University of London School of Oriental & African Studies
- University of Luton Press, John Libbey Media
- University of Wales Press
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- V
- V & A Publications
- Vallentine Mitchell
- Variorum
- Vermilion
- Verso
- Viking Press (UK)
- Vine House Publications (distributor of small presses)
- Virago Ltd
- Virgin Publishing (selective coverage)
- Vista
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- W
- Alfred Waller Ltd
- Wallflower Press
- Warburg Institute Publications
- Warner
- Waterside Press
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson (see Orion Books)
- Wellsweep Press
- Welsh Academic Press
- White Horse Press
- Whiting & Birch
- Whittles Publishing
- Whurr Publishers Ltd/ John Wiley & Sons
- John Wiley
- Wiley Academy
- Willan Publishing
- Neil Wilson (selective coverage)
- Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
- Windrush Press
- WIT Press
- Woburn Press Ltd
- Wolfhound Press
- Women’s Press Ltd
- Woodstock Books
- Cecil Woolf Publishers
- WorldView Publications
- Wrecking Ball Press
- Wrightson Biomedical
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- Y
- Yale University Press (London)
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- Z
- Zed Books
- Hans Zell
- Zwemmer
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