Bloomsbury Academic is a new scholarly imprint with a new business model. We publish research-led books across the humanities and social sciences and seek to develop innovative lists on a thematic basis, in fields of current global interest.

Our research-led titles carry a creative commons licence allowing readers non-commercial use. At the same time we produce attractively printed books that are promoted and sold globally. They will be available in enhanced e-book formats from early 2010.

Because research and teaching are inextricably linked we’ve purchased a superb backlist of upper level textbooks from the Arnold/Hodder collection to complement our research-led publications. These were not conceived to appear on CC licenses and will be available for sale only. However, we are discussing a few experimental models where we’ll be opening up content as much as possible online.

Our state-of-the-art platform is currently under development by iFactory and will be operational later this year. You’ll find easy and fun ways to navigate around our content, including the use of iMindMaps.

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In the meantime, we hope you’ll browse around and see how we’re building our publishing programme.

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