{"id":4808,"date":"2022-09-14T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/?page_id=4808"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:57:04","slug":"tracing-microform-producers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/guides\/tracing-microform-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Microform Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>Microfilm Producers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>3M-IM (International Microfilm) Press\n<ul>\n<li>Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>AMS Press, Inc. (New York, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<li>Academic Publishers (UK)<\/li>\n<li>Adam Matthew\n<ul>\n<li>Brill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Altair Publishing (Gildersome, West Yorkshire, England)<\/li>\n<li>Andronicus Publishing Co. (New York, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<li>Bay Microfilm, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.)<\/li>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Brill.<\/li>\n<li>Brookhaven Press\n<ul>\n<li>Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.)\n<ul>\n<li>Out of business on June 30, 2021. Microfilm assets dispersed or discarded. Digitization services acquired by Crowley Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CIS \/ Congressional Information Service (Washington, D.C.)*\n<ul>\n<li>LexisNexis\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chadwyck-Healey\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Clearwater Publishing Co. (New York, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>Norman Ross Publishing\n<ul>\n<li>Microfilming Corporation of American (Glen Rock, N.J.)\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)<\/li>\n<li>Datamics, Inc. (New York, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<li>De Gruyter.<\/li>\n<li>EP Microform, Ltd. (Wakefield, England)\n<ul>\n<li>Microform, Ltd. (East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England)\n<ul>\n<li>Microform Academic Publishers (Wakefield, England)\n<ul>\n<li>British Online Archives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>EastView.<\/li>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<li>General Microfilm Co. (Cambridge, Mass.).\n<ul>\n<li>[Gale?]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Georg Olms Verlag (Hildesheim, Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Graphic Microfilm of New England\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)\n<ul>\n<li>CIS \/ Congressional Information Service (Washington, D.C.)\n<ul>\n<li>Elsevier (1979)\n<ul>\n<li>LexisNexis\n<ul>\n<li>UPA\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hachette\n<ul>\n<li>Norman Ross<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Harald Fischer Verlag (Erlangen, Germany).<\/li>\n<li>Harvester Press Microform Publications, Ltd. (Brighton, England)\n<ul>\n<li>Research Publications, Inc.\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Haworth Press<\/li>\n<li>Holt Information Systems (New York, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<li>IDC \/ International Documentation Centre \/ Inter Documentation Centre (Zug, Switzerland)\n<ul>\n<li>Brill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>International Documentation Centre (Zug, Switzerland), see IDC.<\/li>\n<li>Information Design Press (Menlo Park, Calif.).<\/li>\n<li>Information Handling Services (Englewood, Colo.).<\/li>\n<li>Information Interchange Corp. (Washington, D.C.)<\/li>\n<li>Irish Microforms, Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>James T. White and Co. (Clifton, N.J.).<\/li>\n<li>Johnson Associates (Greenwich, Conn.).<\/li>\n<li>K.G. Saur\n<ul>\n<li>De Gruyter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>KTO Microform Division\n<ul>\n<li>Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kraus Microform (Millwood, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. (Millwood, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Library Microfilms, a Division of Bay Microfilm, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.)<\/li>\n<li>Library Resources, Inc. (Encyclopedia Britannica subsidiary).<\/li>\n<li>Lost Cause Press (Louisville, Ky.)\n<ul>\n<li>Research Publications\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MMF Publications (Lisse, Netherlands)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Maxwell International Microforms Corporation (Elmsford, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>Microforms International Marketing Corporation (Elmsford, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Meckler Publishing Corp. (Westport, Conn.)\n<ul>\n<li>K.G. Saur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mellifont Press\n<ul>\n<li>Scholarly Resources (Wilmington, Del.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Michael Glazier, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.)<\/li>\n<li>Micro 8 Publications, Inc.\n<ul>\n<li>Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.)\n<ul>\n<li>Microfilm assets dispersed or discarded. Digitization services acquired by Crowley Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Micro Photo (Cleveland, Ohio)\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microcard Corp. (La Crosse, Wis.)\n<ul>\n<li>Gateway Research\n<ul>\n<li>Northern Micrographics (1973)\n<ul>\n<li>Out of business on June 30, 2021. Assets possibly acquired by: Crowley Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microcard Editions (Washington, D.C.)\n<ul>\n<li>Information Handling Services (Englewood, Colo.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MicroColor International, Inc. (Midland Park, N.J.)<\/li>\n<li>Microeditions Hachette (Paris, France)\n<ul>\n<li>Clearwater Publishing Co. (New York, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>Microfilming Corporation of American (Glen Rock, N.J.)\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microfilming Corporation of American (Glen Rock, N.J. : New York Times subsidiary)\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microform Academic Publishers (Wakefield, England)\n<ul>\n<li>British Online Archives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microform, Ltd. (East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England)\n<ul>\n<li>Microform Academic Publishers (Wakefield, England)\n<ul>\n<li>British Online Archives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microform Publishers International (Chicago, Ill.).<\/li>\n<li>Microforms International Marketing Corporation (Elmsford, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>Pergamon Press, Inc. \/ MIMC Division (Elmsford, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microlex Corp.<\/li>\n<li>Micrologue, Inc. (Denver, Colo.).<\/li>\n<li>Micromedia Ltd. (Toronto, Ont.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Micropublishers\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Microtext Library Service.<\/li>\n<li>Mikropress GmbH (Bonn, Germany).<\/li>\n<li>Mindata Microform Systems (London, England)<\/li>\n<li>Moran Micropublishers (Amsterdam, Netherlands).<\/li>\n<li>NCR Microcard Editions\n<ul>\n<li>Information Handling Services (Englewood, Colo.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>National Microfilm Library (La Jolla, Calif.).<\/li>\n<li>National Micropublishing Corp. (Wilton, Conn.)\n<ul>\n<li>Micro 8 Publications, Inc.\n<ul>\n<li>Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.).\n<ul>\n<li>Out of business on June 30, 2021. Assets possibly acquired by: Crowley Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New University Press (Evanston, Ill.).<\/li>\n<li>NewsBank (Greenwich, Conn.).<\/li>\n<li>Newspaper Archive Developments, Ltd. (London, England, a subsidiary of the London Times)\n<ul>\n<li>Research Publications, Inc. (Woodbridge, Conn.)\n<ul>\n<li>Primary Source Microfilm\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>NMT, see Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.).<\/li>\n<li>Norman Ross\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Northern Micrographics, Inc. (La Crosse, Wis.).\n<ul>\n<li>Microfilm assets dispersed or discarded. Digitization services acquired by Crowley Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Opus Publications (Guilford, Conn.)<\/li>\n<li>Oxford Microform Publications, Ltd.\n<ul>\n<li>Pergamon Press, Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pergamon Press, Inc. \/ MIMC Division (Elmsford, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>UMI \/ University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Plenum Publishing Corp. (New York, N.Y.)<\/li>\n<li>Primary Source Microfilm\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Princeton Datafilm, Inc. (Princeton Junction, N.J.).<\/li>\n<li>Princeton Microfilm Corporation (Princeton, N.J.).<\/li>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<li>Readex Microprint Corp. (New York, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>NewsBank (Greenwich, Conn.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Recordak Corporation (New York, N.Y.)\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Redgrave Information Resources Corp. (Westport, Conn.): spun-off from Greenwood Press.<\/li>\n<li>Research Micropublishers Service, Inc. (Fairfield, Conn.)<\/li>\n<li>Research Publications, Inc. (Woodbridge, Conn.)\n<ul>\n<li>Newspaper Archive Developments, Ltd.\n<ul>\n<li>Research Publications, Ltd. (RPL)\n<ul>\n<li>Research Publications International (RPI)\n<ul>\n<li>Primary Source Media\u00a0 (Woodbridge, Conn.)\n<ul>\n<li>Gale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Primary Source Microfilm\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research Publications International \/ RPI (Reading, England)<\/li>\n<li>Rhistoric Publications (Philadelphia, Pa.)\n<ul>\n<li>Scholarly Resources (Wilmington, Del.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Saur, see K.G. Saur.<\/li>\n<li>Scholarly Resources, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.)\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Trans Media Publishing Co. (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.).<\/li>\n<li>UMI \/ University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>UP Data Publications, Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).<\/li>\n<li>UPA \/ University Publications of America (Bethesda, Md.)\n<ul>\n<li>CIS \/ Congressional Information Service (Washington, D.C.)\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0LexisNexis\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.), see UMI.<\/li>\n<li>University Microfilms, Ltd. (Tylers Green, England).<\/li>\n<li>University Publications of America (Bethesda, Md.), see UPA.<\/li>\n<li>Verlag Dokumentation (Munich)\n<ul>\n<li>K.G. Saur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>West Publishing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).<\/li>\n<li>World Microfilms Publications, Ltd. (London, England)\n<ul>\n<li>Gale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Xerox (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>Bell and Howell\n<ul>\n<li>UMI\/University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)\n<ul>\n<li>ProQuest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Purchased by Elsevier in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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