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| founders     = [[Alvin Ward Gouldner]], Lee Rainwater, and [[Irving Louis Horowitz]]
| defunct      = {{End date and age|2017|paren=yes}}
| successor    = [[Routledge]]
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| headquarters = [[Piscataway, New Jersey]]
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'''Transaction Publishers''' was a [[New Jersey]]–based [[publishing house]] that specialized in [[social-science]] books and journals. It was located on the [[Livingston Campus (Rutgers University)|Livingston Campus of Rutgers University]].<ref name="Plural" >{{Cite book|editor-last=Inkeles|editor-first=Alex|editor-link=Alex Inkeles|title=On measuring democracy: Its consequences and concomitants|year=1991|publisher=Transactions<!-- PLURAL --> Publishers|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.|edition=second printing, 1993|isbn=0-88738-881-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/onmeasuringdemoc00inke}}</ref> The company was sold to [[Taylor & Francis]] in 2016 and merged with its [[Routledge]] imprint.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Transaction |url=http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CMS&articleid=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Educational, academic and professional publishing transactions|url=http://www.broadwaterllc.com/Pages/eduprof.html}}</ref>

==History and operations==
As of February 1, 2017, Transaction Publishers became a part of Routledge, of the Taylor & Francis Group.  

Transaction was an academic publisher of the [[social sciences]]. It was founded by [[Irving Louis Horowitz]], who served as Transaction's chairman of the board and editorial director until his death in 2012.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Irving Louis Horowitz, Founder of Transaction Publishers, Dies at 82 |url=http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=STORY&articleid=102}}</ref><ref name="TottenBartrop2008">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Totten|author2=Paul Robert Bartrop|author3=Steven L. Jacobs|title=Dictionary of Genocide: M-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_02aVgTaFDYC&pg=PA428|access-date=5 March 2011|year=2008|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|isbn=978-0-313-34644-6|page=428}}</ref><ref name="Association1999">{{cite book|author=American Anthropological Association|title=Anthropology news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihoNAQAAMAAJ|access-date=5 March 2011|year=1999|publisher= [[American Anthropological Association]]}}</ref>

Transaction began on July 1, 1962, as part of a multiplex grant sponsored by the [[Ford Foundation]] at [[Washington University in St. Louis]]. From beginnings as a social-science magazine, ''Transaction: Social Science and Modern Society'' (later ''Society''), Transaction Publishers evolved into a full-fledged publisher of books (Transaction Books), journals (Transaction Periodicals Consortium), and eBooks.<ref>{{cite web | title=About Transaction | url=http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CMS&articleid=16}}</ref>

In 1969, Transaction relocated{{clarify|reason=from where?|date=April 2026}}to the newly formed Livingston College, on the Livingston campus of Rutgers University in [[Piscataway, New Jersey]]. Many editors, authors, and advisors were drawn from the faculty. Close to 200 faculty members have been authors and editors of Transaction books.{{cn|date=December 2018}}

AldineTransaction was an imprint of Transaction Publishers. Formerly a division of [[Walter de Gruyter]], Inc., Aldine Publishing Co. was acquired by Transaction in July 2004, and the books were then published under the imprint AldineTransaction. AldineTransaction published classic books in the fields of sociology, anthropology, economics, sociobiology, physical anthropology, and public policy. It acquired book lists from Precedent Publishers in 2009 and the Rutgers [[Center for Urban Policy Research]] (CUPR) in 2011.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Transaction Publishers Acquires Titles from Rutgers' Center for Urban Policy Research |url=http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=STORY&articleid=98}}</ref>

Transaction published more than 6,000 titles.{{when|date=December 2018}}

Transaction once published academic journals, including its flagship journal, ''[[Society (journal)|Society]]''; however, Transaction sold its journal publishing program to [[Springer Science+Business Media]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Springer Science+Business Media acquires complete journal program from Transaction Publishers |url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/s-ssm022007.php |publisher= [[EurekAlert!]] |date= 2007-02-20|access-date=2011-11-25}}</ref>

In 2010, [[Penn State University]] announced the "Irving Louis Horowitz–Transaction Publishers Archives, 1939–2009" open for public research at Penn State's Historical Collections and Labor Archives (HCLA) of The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, University Libraries.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://live.psu.edu/story/47470#rss13 | title =Seminal social sciences archive goes online and opens to the public | publisher= [[Penn State University]] | date=12 July 2010|access-date=5 March 2011}}</ref> The archive documents the expansion of social-science research over the past half century.

==See also==
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* [[Books in the United States]]
* [[Journalism in the United States]]
* [[Lists of publishing companies]]
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|1=http://www.transactionpub.com}}
* [http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/ilh.html Irving Louis Horowitz-Transaction Publishers Archives, 1939-2009] online searchable archive at Penn State

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