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On August 25, 1976 the company was sold to the Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) and in 1979 became part of the Dutch publishing giant, [[Elsevier]], following Elsevier's purchase of CIS. That same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in [[business]] and [[law]].
On January 1, 1986 GPI expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded by Frederick A. Praeger in 1949,<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/obituaries/frederick-a-praeger-dies-at-78-published-books-on-communism.html | title = Frederick A. Praeger Dies at 78; Published Books on Communism | accessdate = October 16, 2012 | last = Lyons | first = RD | publisher = [[The New York Times]] | date = June 5, 1994 }}</ref> from [[CBS, Inc]].<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| title = CBS Agrees to Sell Praeger Publishers Unit| work = The New York Times| accessdate = 2018-01-20| date = 1985-12-18| url = http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/18/arts/cbs-agrees-to-sell-praeger-publishers-unit.html}}</ref>, and in 1989 when it acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House.
At the beginning of 1990 the company's name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc. to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of [[Reed Elsevier]], and by the mid-1990s the operational part of GPG joined with Heinemann USA, which had been part of Reed.
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