Butterworth-Heinemann
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Butterworth–Heinemann is a UK
United Kingdom
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-based international publishing company specialized in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms. It has publishing units in Oxford
Oxford
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, UK and Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham, Massachusetts
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, USA.

As of 2006, it is an imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...

  of Elsevier
Elsevier
Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....

, of Reed Elsevier
Reed Elsevier
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 PLC
Public limited company
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 group but had been run as a semi-autonomous part of Reed Elsevier since the mid 90s.

External links

  • Reed Elsevier webpage
  • Reed Elsevier description at Reuters
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