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Elsevier
Type Private company
Founded 1880
Headquarters Amsterdam
Industry Publishing
Website www.elsevier.com
This article is about the publisher. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages For the Dutch language magazine, see Elsevier (magazine). Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally Elsevier is a Dutch weekly Magazine with a circulation of over 140000 copies

Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Scientific literature comprises scientific Publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and Social sciences Reed Elsevier is a global Publisher and information provider It came into being in autumn 1992 as the result of a merger between Reed International a British Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the UK, USA and elsewhere. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west

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Origins

Elsevier took its name (in modernised form) from the historic Dutch publishing house of the same name (see House of Elzevir). Elzevir is the name of a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers publishers and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries The Elzevir family had operated as booksellers and publishers in the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Its founder, Lodewijk Elzevir, (1542–1617) lived in Leiden and established the business in 1580. Lodewijk Elzevir (c 1540 Leuven — 4 February 1617, Leiden) originally Lodewijk or Louis Elsevier or Elzevier, was a significant "Leyden" redirects here For other uses see Leyden (disambiguation.

Modern company

The modern company was founded in 1880. Leading products include journals such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron Letters, books such as Gray's Anatomy, and the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals. This article is about the journal For other uses of the term "lancet" see Lancet (disambiguation. Cell is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes novel research in any area of experimental biology that is significant outside its field Tetrahedron Letters is a weekly international journal for rapid publication of full original research papers in the field of Organic chemistry. Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened is an English-language Human anatomy Textbook ScienceDirect is one of the largest online collections of published scientific research in the world Others include the Trends series, and the Current Opinion series. Trends is a series of Scientific journals owned by Elsevier that publish review articles in a range of areas of Biology. Current Opinion is a series of review journals published by Elsevier on various subjects of biology

Elsevier company

Elsevier may be the world’s largest provider of science and health information. It publishes about 250'000 articles per year in 2000 journals[1]. Its archives contain 7 million past publications. Total yearly downloads amount to 240 million. [2]

Economic indicators

Elsevier is part of the Reed Elsevier group. Reed Elsevier is a global Publisher and information provider It came into being in autumn 1992 as the result of a merger between Reed International a British In terms of revenue, it accounts for 28% of the total (₤1. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 5b of 5. 4 billions in 2006). In terms of operating profits, it represents a much bigger fraction of 44% (₤395 of 880 millions)[3]. In financial and business Accounting, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT is a measure of a firm's profitability that excludes interest and income tax expenses Adjusted operating profits have risen by 10% between 2005 and 2006. [4]

Reed Elsevier Annual Report 2006
Turnover € 7'935 million (+5% from '05)
Pre-tax profit € 1'060 million (+3% from '05)
Elsevier Annual Report 2006
Turnover € 2'236 million (+6. 6% from '05)
Pre-tax profit € 581 million (+0. 5% from '05)
see Elsevier reports[5]; turnover = revenue; profits not adjusted

Company figures

7,000 journal editors, 70,000 editorial board members and 200,000 reviewers are working for Elsevier. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services [1] Each year, the company publishes the original work of more than 500,000 authors in 2,000 journals, 17,000 books, 18 new journals and 1,900 new books. [1]

It is headed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Erik Engstrom. [6]

With its headquarters based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Elsevier employs more than 7,000 people in over 70 offices across 24 countries. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands [1]

Elsevier's operating divisions

Elsevier has two distinct operating divisions: Science & Technology and Health Sciences. Products and services of both include electronic and print versions of journals, textbooks and reference works and cover the health, life, physical and social sciences.

Science & Technology

Herman van Campenhout is the CEO.

The target markets are academic and government research institutions, corporate research labs, booksellers, librarians, scientific researchers, authors, and editors.

Flagship products and services include: ScienceDirect, Scopus, Scirus, EMBASE, Engineering Village, Compendex, Cell. ScienceDirect is one of the largest online collections of published scientific research in the world Scopus is an abstract and citation database and web-based research tool provided by Elsevier in cooperation with a number of university research libraries Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine Like CiteSeer and Google Scholar, it is focused on scientific information EMBASE, or the Excerpta Medica Database, is a Biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier and containing over 11 million records from 1974 Compendex is a comprehensive Engineering Bibliographic database. Cell is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes novel research in any area of experimental biology that is significant outside its field

There are the following subsidiary imprints, many of them previously independent publishing companies: Academic Press, Architectural Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, CMP, Digital Press, Elsevier, Focal Press, Gulf Professional Publishing, Morgan Kaufmann, Newnes, Pergamon, Pergamon Flexible Learning, Syngress Publishing. Academic Press ( London, New York and San Diego) was an Academic Book Publisher that is now part of Elsevier. Butterworth-Heinemann was a UK -based international Publishing company specialized in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional Focal Press is a publisher of media technology books and it is an imprint of Elsevier. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a San Francisco based book publisher specialized in computer science and engineering

Health Sciences

Brian Nairn is the CEO.

The target market is physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, medical and nursing students and schools, medical researchers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and research establishments. Publishing in 12 languages including English, German, French Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese and Chinese.

Flagship publications include: The 'Consult' series (FirstCONSULT, PathCONSULT, NursingCONSULT, MDConsult, StudentCONSULT), Virtual Clinical Excursions, and major reference works such as Gray's Anatomy, Nelson' Pediatrics, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, and online versions of many journals[7] including The Lancet, FEBS Letters, etc. Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened is an English-language Human anatomy Textbook Dorland's is the brand name of a family of medical reference works (including dictionaries, spellers word books and spell-check software) in various media (including Frank H Netter ( 25 April, 1906- 17 September, 1991) was an Artist, Physician, and most notably a leading Medical illustrator This article is about the journal For other uses of the term "lancet" see Lancet (disambiguation.

There are the following subsidiary imprints, previously independent publishing companies: Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, Butterworth-Heinemann, Hanley & Belfus, Bailliere-Tindall, Urban & Fischer, Masson. Saunders is a Surname of English and Scottish Patronymic origin derived from Sander a mediæval form of Alexander. Churchill Livingstone is an imprint of a medical publishing company owned by Elsevier Ltd but previously owned by Harcourt and Pearsons Butterworth-Heinemann was a UK -based international Publishing company specialized in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional

Criticism

In recent years the subscription rates charged by the company for its journals have been criticised; some very large journals (those with more than 5000 articles) charge subscription prices as high as $14,000, far above average. The company has been criticised not just by advocates of a switch to the so-called open-access publication model, but also by universities whose library budgets make it difficult for them to afford current journal prices. Open access ( OA) is free immediate permanent full-text Online access for any user web-wide to digital scientific and scholarly material primarily For example, a resolution by Stanford University's senate singled out Elsevier as an example of a publisher of journals which might be "disproportionately expensive compared to their educational and research value" and which librarians should consider dropping, and encouraged its faculty "not to contribute articles or editorial or review efforts to publishers and journals that engage in exploitive or exorbitant pricing". Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in [8] Similar guidelines and criticism of Elsevier's pricing policies have been passed by the University of California, Harvard University and Duke University. The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. [9]

Several entire editorial boards left Elsevier in protest

In November 1999 the complete Editorial Board of the Journal of Logic Programming (50 persons in total) collectively resigned after 16 months of unsuccessful negotiations with Elsevier Press about the price of library subscriptions. This editorial board created a new journal (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming) with a lower priced publisher, and on its side Elsevier continued the publication of the journal with a completely different editorial board and a slightly different name (The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming).

In 2002, dissatisfaction at Elsevier's pricing policies caused the European Economic Association to terminate an agreement with Elsevier which designated Elsevier's European Economic Review as the official journal of the association. The European Economic Association (EEA is a professional academic body which links European Economists It was founded in the mid 1980s The EEA decided to launch a new journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association. [10]

At the end of 2003, the entire editorial board of the prestigious Journal of Algorithms resigned to start Transactions on Algorithms with a different, lower priced publisher[11], at the suggestion of Journal of Algorithms founder Donald Knuth[12]. Donald Ervin Knuth (kəˈnuːθ (born 10 January 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer

The same happened in 2005 to the International Journal of Solids and Structures whose editors resigned to start the Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures. However, a new editorial board was quickly established and the journal continues in apparently unaltered form with Editors Prof Hills from Oxford and Dr. Stelios Kyriakides from the University of Texas at Austin.

On August 10, 2006, the entire editorial board of the distinguished mathematical journal Topology handed in their resignation, again because of stalled negotiations with Elsevier to lower the subscription price. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Topology is a distinguished mathematical journal publishing scholarly articles related to topology and geometry [13] This board has now launched the new Journal of Topology at a far lower price, under the auspices of the London Mathematical Society. The London Mathematical Society ( LMS) is the leading mathematical society in England. [14]

The French École Normale Supérieure has stopped having Elsevier publish the prestigious journal Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure[15] (as of 2008[16]). École Normale de Musique de ParisThe École normale supérieure (also known as Normale Sup’, Normale, ENS, ENS-Paris, ENS-Ulm or Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure (ASENS is a French scientific journal of Mathematics published by Gauthier-Villars.

Petition against Elsevier's parent organisation's involvement in weapon shows

An editorial in the medical journal The Lancet in September 2005 sharply criticized the journal's owner and publisher, Reed Elsevier, for its participation in the international arms trade. This article is about the journal For other uses of the term "lancet" see Lancet (disambiguation. [17] Specifically, one of Elsevier's subsidiaries organized the Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition(DSEi), a large arms fair in the U. K. The authors, appealing to the Hippocratic oath called for the publisher to divest itself of all business interests that threaten human, and especially civilian, health and well-being. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath traditionally taken by physicians pertaining to the ethical practice of medicine [18]

In the March 2007 issue of the The Lancet, leading medical centers including the UK Royal College of Physicians urged Reed Elsevier to sever weapons ties. The Royal College of Physicians of London was the first medical institution in England to receive a Royal Charter Doctors spoke out against Reed's role in the involvement of the organizing of exhibitions for the arms trade. [19] Reed Elsevier’s chief executive responded in June 2007 with a written statement[20], welcomed by authors of the petition,[21] announcing that it would sell the part of the company which handled military trade shows. Elsevier failed to sell off its exhibitions arm by the end of 2007[22][23] .

Imprints

Imprints are brand names in publishing. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published Elsevier uses its imprints to market to different consumer segments. Many of them have previously been the company names of publishers that were purchased by Reed Elsevier.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Elsevier at a glance
  2. ^ http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/glance_1 (accessed 19 October 2007)
  3. ^ Reed Elsevier | Annual Report and Financial Statements 2006
  4. ^ Reed Elsevier | Annual Report and Financial Statements 2006
  5. ^ Reed Elsevier | Annual Report and Financial Statements 2006
  6. ^ Elsevier
  7. ^ Elsevier
  8. ^ Faculty Senate minutes February 19 meeting Stanford Report, Feb. Academic Press ( London, New York and San Diego) was an Academic Book Publisher that is now part of Elsevier. T & A D Poyser began as a British publisher, founded by Trevor and Anna Poyser in 1973 to specialise in Ornithology books Butterworth-Heinemann was a UK -based international Publishing company specialized in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional Churchill Livingstone is an imprint of a medical publishing company owned by Elsevier Ltd but previously owned by Harcourt and Pearsons Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a San Francisco based book publisher specialized in computer science and engineering Saunders is a Surname of English and Scottish Patronymic origin derived from Sander a mediæval form of Alexander. 25, 2004
  9. ^ Fac Sen addresses costly journals (2004-02-20). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a Dowry payment
  10. ^ The EEA's Journal: A Brief History
  11. ^ Changes at the Journal of Algorithms
  12. ^ Donald Knuth (2003-10-25). Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Letter to the editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms.
  13. ^ Resignation letter from the editors of Topology (2006-08-10). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire
  14. ^ Journal of Topology (pub. London Mathematical Society)
  15. ^ John Baez: What We Can Do About Science Journals August 13, 2007
  16. ^ Publisher's description of Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. John Carlos Baez (born 1961 is an American mathematical physicist at the University of California Riverside. Elsevier.
  17. ^ "Biting Its Owner's Hand", New York Times, 2005-09-05. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.  
  18. ^ Feder, Gene et al. (2005). "Reed Elsevier and the international arms trade". The Lancet 366: 889. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67306-0. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document.  
  19. ^ Bob Grant. Scientists step up Elsevier protest. The-Scientist. com.
  20. ^ Reed Elsevier to exit the defence exhibitions sector. Reed Elsevier (press release) (2007-06-01). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected
  21. ^ Journal-Publishing Giant Will Halt Lucrative Business in Weapons Bazaars. The Chronicle of Higher Education (News Blog) (2007-06-05). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
  22. ^ "Reed fails to sell arms fairs", The Times Online, 2007-12-20. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.  
  23. ^ James Ashton. "Clarion’s £125m event", The Times Online, 2008-02-10. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1355 - The St Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead  

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