Ablex Publishing Corporation is a privately held book publisher and academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 publisher in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, USA. It was previously located in Norwood, New Jersey

Norwood, New Jersey

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 5,711 people. The population density was 2,083.3 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the borough was 69.3% Caucasian, 27.2% Asian, 1.4% African American, 0.0% Native American, 1.0% from other races, and 1.2% from two or more races. Hispanics...

, and also at one time in Westport

Westport, Connecticut

-Neighborhoods:* Saugatuck – around the Westport railroad station near the southwestern corner of the town – a built-up area with some restaurants, stores and offices....

 and Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 122,643, making it the fourth largest city in the state and the eighth largest city in New England...

. Ablex publishes edited volumes, monographs, research journals, and textbooks, focused on communication, education, library science

Library science

Library science is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the...

, psychology, and technology. In 1997, Ablex became an affiliate company of JAI Press, a subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 of Elsevier Science, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature.

Partial list of titles and imprints

• Ablex Communication, Culture & Information Series
• Ablex series in computational science
  Computational science
  Computational science is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and quantitative analysis techniques and using computers to analyze and solve scientific problems...
  
  
• Ablex series in software engineering
  Software engineering
  Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
  
  
• Ablex series in artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
  , Jerry Hobbs
  Jerry Hobbs
  Jerry R. Hobbs is a prominent researcher in the fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and artificial intelligence.-Education:He earned his doctor's degree from New York University in 1974 in computer science...
  
  , editor
• Ablex Theoretical Issues in Cognitive Science
• Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
• Cognitive development
  Cognitive development
  Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development and cognitive psychology compared to an adult's point of...
  
  
• Cognitive science
  Cognitive science
  Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
  
  : journal of the Cognitive Science Society
• Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  Early Childhood Research Quarterly is an academic journal providing current research in the field of early childhood education and development that was established in 1986. The journal also publishes occasional book reviews, practitioner/policy perspectives, and research reviews...
  
  
• International Journal of Bilingualism
• Linguistics
  Linguistics
  Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
  
   and education: an international research journal
• National Women's Studies Association Journal
  NWSA Journal
  Feminist Formations is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1988 as the NWSA Journal ; the name was changed beginning with the Spring 2010 issue. It publishes interdisciplinary and multicultural feminist scholarship in women's, gender, and sexuality studies...
  
  
• New directions in computers and composition studies
• The David C. Anchin series in social and policy issues in education

External links

• Library and information science research titles of Ablex