Columbia University Press was founded in 1893 as a nonprofit corporation separate from Columbia University, although bearing its name and associated closely with it. The purpose of the Press expressed in the Certificate of Incorporation was to "promote the study of economic, historical, literary, scientific and other subjects; and to promote and encourage the publication of literary works embodying original research in such subjects."
The Press has distributed books on behalf of other organizations and publishers throughout most of its history. One of the titles it distributed for many years was The Granger's Index to Poetry. In the 1960s, it assumed ownership of this highly successful reference work.
Electronic publishing by the Press was inaugurated in 1990, when The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia went online on the Columbia University network. In 1991 The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry on CD-ROM was issued in response to requests from reference librarians. Currently, the Press publishes a variety of CD-ROMs. Its first four publications online are Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online, Earthscape, and The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
CIAO is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It comprises a wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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Columbia Gazetteer
A comprehensive geographic dictionary, Columbia Gazetteer provides complete geographic properties, all physical aspects of place, political properties, infrastructure and natural, and agricultural resources.
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Grangers World of Poetry
Grangers World of Poetry provides full text of poems as well as biographical and critical content. It provides over 400,000 poem citations, over 40,000 poems in full text and over 7500 excerpts. Included are biographies of the world's best-loved poets and an extensive glossary of terms and definitions, ratings and descriptions of the key print anthologies and collected and selected works of poetry. It also links to outstanding Web sites such as the Poetry Project (Robert Pinsky) and Poetry 180 (Billy Collins).
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