Peter Lang
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford. Lang publishes over 1,100 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 40,000 books.
Peter Lang
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- Peter Lang
- Founded
- 1970
- Headquarters
- Pieterlen · Lausanne
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Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford. Lang publishes over 1,100 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 40,000 books.
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It has its complete online journals collection available on Ingentaconnect, and distributes its digital textbooks globally through Kortext.
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• Name — Peter Lang • Founded — 1970, Frankfurt am Main, Germany • Founder — Peter Lang • Country — Switzerland • Headquarters — Lausanne • Distribution — * self distributed (Switzerland) • Libri (Germany) • Gardners (UK) • Baker & Taylor, GOBI Library Solutions, Ingram Content Group (US) • University of Toronto Press • China Publishers Services (Hong Kong) • Co Info (Australia) • Publications — Books, academic journals, textbooks • Url — peterlang.com
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The company specializes in the following twelve subject areas:
History
History
The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 by Swiss editor Peter Lang. Since 1982 it has had an American subsidiary, Peter Lang Publishing USA, specializing in textbooks for classroom use in education, media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Peter Lang was acquired in 2015 through a management buyout led by Chairman Claude Béglé.
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Academic journals
Peter Lang has published 22 academic journals:
Former journals published by Peter Lang
• Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques (published by De Gruyter Brill)
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