Tracing Microform Assets

Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to help librarians locate the company that currently owns the rights to microfilm produced by a now-defunct microfilm publisher.

Microfilm Producers

• 3M-IM (International Microfilm) Press
  • Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)
    • ProQuest.
• AMS Press, Inc. (New York, N.Y.).
• Academic Publishers (UK)
• Adam Matthew
  • Brill.
• Altair Publishing (Gildersome, West Yorkshire, England)
• Andronicus Publishing Co. (New York, N.Y.).
• Bay Microfilm, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.)
• Bell and Howell
  • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
    • ProQuest.
• Brill.
• Brookhaven Press
  • Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.)
    • Out of business on June 30, 2021. Microfilm assets dispersed or discarded. Digitization services acquired by Crowley Company.
• CIS / Congressional Information Service (Washington, D.C.)*
  • LexisNexis
    • ProQuest.
• Chadwyck-Healey
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.
• Clearwater Publishing Co. (New York, N.Y.)
  • Norman Ross Publishing
    • Microfilming Corporation of American (Glen Rock, N.J.)
      • Bell and Howell
        • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
          • ProQuest.
• Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)
• Datamics, Inc. (New York, N.Y.).
• De Gruyter.
• EP Microform, Ltd. (Wakefield, England)
  • Microform, Ltd. (East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England)
    • Microform Academic Publishers (Wakefield, England)
      • British Online Archives.
• EastView.
• Gale.
• General Microfilm Co. (Cambridge, Mass.).
  • [Gale?]
• Georg Olms Verlag (Hildesheim, Germany)
• Graphic Microfilm of New England
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.
• Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)
  • CIS / Congressional Information Service (Washington, D.C.)
    • Elsevier (1979)
      • LexisNexis
        • UPA
          • ProQuest.
• Hachette
  • Norman Ross
• Harald Fischer Verlag (Erlangen, Germany).
• Harvester Press Microform Publications, Ltd. (Brighton, England)
  • Research Publications, Inc.
    • Gale.
• Haworth Press
• Holt Information Systems (New York, N.Y.).
• IDC / International Documentation Centre / Inter Documentation Centre (Zug, Switzerland)
  • Brill.
• International Documentation Centre (Zug, Switzerland), see IDC.
• Information Design Press (Menlo Park, Calif.).
• Information Handling Services (Englewood, Colo.).
• Information Interchange Corp. (Washington, D.C.)
• Irish Microforms, Ltd.
• James T. White and Co. (Clifton, N.J.).
• Johnson Associates (Greenwich, Conn.).
• K.G. Saur
  • De Gruyter.
• KTO Microform Division
  • Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)
    • ProQuest.
• Kraus Microform (Millwood, N.Y.)
  • Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)
    • ProQuest.
• Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)
  • ProQuest.
• Library Microfilms, a Division of Bay Microfilm, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.)
• Library Resources, Inc. (Encyclopedia Britannica subsidiary).
• Lost Cause Press (Louisville, Ky.)
  • Research Publications
    • Gale.
• MMF Publications (Lisse, Netherlands)
  • ProQuest.
• Maxwell International Microforms Corporation (Elmsford, N.Y.)
  • Microforms International Marketing Corporation (Elmsford, N.Y.).
• Meckler Publishing Corp. (Westport, Conn.)
  • K.G. Saur
• Mellifont Press
  • Scholarly Resources (Wilmington, Del.)
    • ProQuest.
• Michael Glazier, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.)
• Micro 8 Publications, Inc.
  • Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.)
    • Microfilm assets dispersed or discarded. Digitization services acquired by Crowley Company.
• Micro Photo (Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.
• Microcard Corp. (La Crosse, Wis.)
  • Gateway Research
    • Northern Micrographics (1973)
      • Out of business on June 30, 2021. Assets possibly acquired by: Crowley Company.
• Microcard Editions (Washington, D.C.)
  • Information Handling Services (Englewood, Colo.).
• MicroColor International, Inc. (Midland Park, N.J.)
• Microeditions Hachette (Paris, France)
  • Clearwater Publishing Co. (New York, N.Y.)
    • Microfilming Corporation of American (Glen Rock, N.J.)
      • Bell and Howell
        • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
          • ProQuest.
• Microfilming Corporation of American (Glen Rock, N.J. : New York Times subsidiary)
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.
• Microform Academic Publishers (Wakefield, England)
  • British Online Archives.
• Microform, Ltd. (East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England)
  • Microform Academic Publishers (Wakefield, England)
    • British Online Archives.
• Microform Publishers International (Chicago, Ill.).
• Microforms International Marketing Corporation (Elmsford, N.Y.)
  • Pergamon Press, Inc. / MIMC Division (Elmsford, N.Y.).
• Microlex Corp.
• Micrologue, Inc. (Denver, Colo.).
• Micromedia Ltd. (Toronto, Ont.)
  • ProQuest.
• Micropublishers
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.
• Microtext Library Service.
• Mikropress GmbH (Bonn, Germany).
• Mindata Microform Systems (London, England)
• Moran Micropublishers (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
• NCR Microcard Editions
  • Information Handling Services (Englewood, Colo.).
• National Microfilm Library (La Jolla, Calif.).
• National Micropublishing Corp. (Wilton, Conn.)
  • Micro 8 Publications, Inc.
    • Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.).
      • Out of business on June 30, 2021. Assets possibly acquired by: Crowley Company.
• New University Press (Evanston, Ill.).
• NewsBank (Greenwich, Conn.).
• Newspaper Archive Developments, Ltd. (London, England, a subsidiary of the London Times)
  • Research Publications, Inc. (Woodbridge, Conn.)
    • Primary Source Microfilm
      • Gale.
• NMT, see Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.).
• Norman Ross
  • ProQuest.
• Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.).
  • Microfilm assets dispersed or discarded. Digitization services acquired by Crowley Company.
• Opus Publications (Guilford, Conn.)
• Oxford Microform Publications, Ltd.
  • Pergamon Press, Inc.
• Pergamon Press, Inc. / MIMC Division (Elmsford, N.Y.)
  • UMI / University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
    • ProQuest.
• Plenum Publishing Corp. (New York, N.Y.)
• Primary Source Microfilm
  • Gale.
• Princeton Datafilm, Inc. (Princeton Junction, N.J.).
• Princeton Microfilm Corporation (Princeton, N.J.).
• ProQuest.
• Readex Microprint Corp. (New York, N.Y.)
  • NewsBank (Greenwich, Conn.).
• Recordak Corporation (New York, N.Y.)
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.
• Redgrave Information Resources Corp. (Westport, Conn.): spun-off from Greenwood Press.
• Research Micropublishers Service, Inc. (Fairfield, Conn.)
• Research Publications, Inc. (Woodbridge, Conn.)
  • Newspaper Archive Developments, Ltd.
    • Research Publications, Ltd. (RPL)
      • Research Publications International (RPI)
        • Primary Source Media  (Woodbridge, Conn.)
          • Gale
  • Primary Source Microfilm
    • Gale.
• Research Publications International / RPI (Reading, England)
• Rhistoric Publications (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • Scholarly Resources (Wilmington, Del.)
    • ProQuest.
• Saur, see K.G. Saur.
• Scholarly Resources, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.)
  • Gale.
• Trans Media Publishing Co. (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.).
• UMI / University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
  • ProQuest.
• UP Data Publications, Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
• UPA / University Publications of America (Bethesda, Md.)
  • CIS / Congressional Information Service (Washington, D.C.)
    •  LexisNexis
      • ProQuest.
• University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.), see UMI.
• University Microfilms, Ltd. (Tylers Green, England).
• University Publications of America (Bethesda, Md.), see UPA.
• Verlag Dokumentation (Munich)
  • K.G. Saur.
• West Publishing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
• World Microfilms Publications, Ltd. (London, England)
  • Gale.
• Xerox (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
  • Bell and Howell
    • UMI/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
      • ProQuest.

*Purchased by Elsevier in 1979.