Editions de Boccard has been a leader in the publication and distribution of scholarly books for more than a century. It carries the publishing reputation of the Collège de France, French archaeological missions in Central Asia and elsewhere, the Centre d'études alexandrines, UMR and USR under the supervision of the CNRS, and some of the most prestigious university presses. Since 2013, Editions de Boccard has also been representing the Librairie Droz, the Société de l'histoire de France, the Casa editrice Leo S. Olschki and the Léopard d'Or. More recently, Gerlach Press, Gangemi Editore, the Presses universitaires de Liège, the Editions de linguistique et de philologie, the Société de l'histoire de l'art français, and the Association Saint-Michel de Cuxa have joined their distribution.
The works published and distributed by Boccard cover such complementary fields as history, archaeology, the history of law, literary history, philology, paleography, epigraphy, sigillography, numismatics, ceramology, topography, prosopography, and bibliography. Publishing and distributing approximately three hundred new titles each year, Boccard now possesses a general catalog of some 17,000 titles published between the 1860s and the present.