ABC-CLIO combines more than 50 years of experience as the premier education and library publisher with a deep commitment to using digital and other emerging technologies to publish the highest quality materials. ABC-CLIO is an award-winning publisher of reference, contemporary thought, and professional development content, created to help students, educators, librarians, and general readers of all
ages wrestle with complex challenges. Throughout our history, we have invested resources in the development of new content genres, giving our diverse customer and reader communities the opportunity to explore deep factual treatments of the topics that matter, and delivering the most current scholarship and perspectives on those topics. We are a publishing organization that values and respects the work of scholars and researchers and we give our customers unprecedented access to their discoveries, analyses, and perspectives. Using multiple publishing formats, from the traditional encyclopedia and magazine, to new digital database and eBook genres, we are focused on making substantive contributions to the process of research and the promise of learning.