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ABC-CLIO, or ABC-Clio, is a publisher of reference works for the study of history and social studies in academic, secondary school, and public library settings. ABC-CLIO provides service to fifteen different online databases which contain over one million online texbooks. ABC-CLIO recruits "academic leaders" in the subject areas they cover in order to provide authority for their reference titles. The headquarters are located in Santa Barbara, California. ==History== The company was founded in 1953 as a privately held corporation. Their first publication was Historical Abstracts in 1953. Eric Boehm started the company and the name itself represents the two divisions initially represented when the company incorporated in 1969: American Bibliographical Center and Clio, for Clio Press.〔 Clio Press was named after the muse of history.〔 Eric Boehm had always been interested in history and when he noticed that there were not many good historical abstracts available, he started publishing the Historical Abstracts.〔 ABC-CLIO entered into digital publishing with electronic data in the 1960s.〔 During the 1960s, a sister bibliographic and abstract publication on American history, ''America: History and Life'', was added. It is considered an award-winning title.〔 In 1975, ABC-CLIO put its first database online.〔 The database was called DIALOG.〔 During the 1980s, ABC-CLIO expanded into providing primary reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries.〔 In 1988, they stopped publishing bibliographic books.〔 In the 1990s, ABC-CLIO began to provide access to its humanities database on CD-ROM. The EXEGY Current Events CD-ROM was named "Best Disc of the Year" by Library Journal.〔 In 1996, ABC-CLIO merged with an electronic publishing company, Intellimation, which also produced educational software. The merger brought in Becky Snyder to ABC-CLIO from Intellimation.〔 In 1998, ABC-CLIO provided electronic access to ''America: History and Life''.〔 By the 2000s, one of ABC-CLIO's most popular products had become online databases for researching many topics in the field of the humanities. In 2001, ABC-CLIO began to publish eBooks, initially providing 150 different titles to schools and libraries.〔 The company's reference books had won numerous awards, and the company started a series of subject-related online databases for secondary school use. In 2004, the company acquired the quarterly historical journal, ''Journal of the West'', which has been published since 1962. It sold ''Historical Abstracts'' and ''America: History and Life'' to EBSCO Publishing in 2007.〔"(EBSCO Acquires Two Renowned Databases from ABC-CLIO: ''Historical Abstracts'' and ''America: History and Life'' )". June 15, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ABC-CLIO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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