Your opinions are sought on book publishers

Hello, A Baruch professor who is doing some research on intercultural communications, has asked my help and also yours in providing perceptions of book publishers in the humanities and social sciences. (I have provided her with the few journal articles I have found that have been written on this topic--a 1996 article states that no major study had been done for more than 20 years. ) The 1996 article surveyed collection development heads in selected academic libraries.


There are more studies on journals. Of possible future interest for us is the European Reference Index for the Humanities Research (2007) which has benchmarks categories for journals as either A, B, or C for journals in different disciplines.

The publishers the professsor is interested in are:


Blackwell
Intercultural Press
Sage
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
University Press of America
University of Michigan Press
Jossey Bass
Rowman Littlefield
Routledge
Lawrence Erlbaum
Allyn and Bacon
Prentice Hall
McGraw Hill
Thomson Wadsworth

Please let me know if you have any perceptions about these publishers. I will not identify you to the professor unless you want me to do so.

Thanks, Rita