Blackwell Publishing Professional

Iowa State Press was first established in 1924 as the Collegiate Press, for the sole purpose of producing student and departmental periodicals for Iowa State College. In 1933 the Press's mission was officially expanded to include book publishing and the first titles included The Agricultural Emergency in Iowa; Calculation and Interpretation of Analysis of Variance and Covariance; Coccidia and Coccidiosis of Domestic, Game and Laboratory Animals and of Man; Collembole of Iowa; and Food for the Young Child. The company's name changed to Iowa State University Press (1959) and its book-publishing program grew to play the dominant part in its mission. As the Press's affiliation with Iowa State University became more distant, the company moved off campus in 1972. Blackwell Science purchased Iowa State University Press in 1999. The company remains a world-class publisher of textbooks and references in agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries, aviation, dentistry, food science, journalism and mass communication, nutrition and dietetics, and veterinary medicine. In 2004 the company name officially changed to Blackwell Publishing Professional.