Reed Elsevier
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| Reed Elsevier Plc
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| Type | Public (LSE: REL,Euronext: REN,NYSE: ENL, NYSE: RUK) |
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| Founded | Merger of Elsevier and Reed International PLC in 1993 |
| Headquarters | London and Amsterdam
<tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>CEO: Sir Crispin Davis |
Reed Elsevier (Euronext: REN, LSE: REL, NYSE: ENL, NYSE: RUK) is a leading global publisher and information provider.
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[edit] History
Reed Elsevier came into being in January 1993 as the result of a merger between Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and the Dutch science publisher Elsevier NV.
[edit] History of Reed International
In 1894, Albert E. Reed established a newsprint manufacture at Tovil Mill near Maidstone, Kent. In 1903, Albert E Reed & Co was registered as a public company. In 1970, the company name was changed to Reed International Limited.
[edit] History of Elsevier NV
In 1880, Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company called NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier (Elsevier Publishing Company NV) to publish literary classics and the encyclopedia Winkler Prins. Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family Elsevier, which, for example, had published the works of Erasmus in 1587. Elsevier NV originally was based in Rotterdam but moved to Amsterdam in the late 1880s.
Up to the 1930s, Elsevier remained a small family-owned publisher, with no more than ten employees. When English overtook German as the language of choice in science, the company grew thanks to its expertise in publishing English scientific literature. In 1937, Elsevier Publishing Company NV established a joint-venture branch in New York , Elsevier Press Inc. started in 1951 in Houston, Texas, and in 1962 publishing offices were opened in London and New York. Multiple mergers in the 1970s led to name changes, settling at Elsevier Scientific Publishers in 1979. Two years before the merger with Reed, Elsevier acquired Pergamon Press in the UK.
[edit] Company divisions
Reed Elsevier conducts its business through a number of subsidiary companies:
- The science and medical publishing division is Elsevier.
- The legal publishing division is LexisNexis.
- The education division is Harcourt Education.
- The business division is Reed Business Information
[edit] Key products
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus is updated daily.
Reed Business, Reed Elsevier's global Business division, is a provider of magazines, exhibitions, directories, online media and marketing services across five continents. Its prestige brands serve professionals across a diverse range of industries. These brands include Variety, New Scientist, totaljobs.com, Elsevier, Kellysearch, and the World Travel & Tourism Market.
Harcourt is Reed Elsevier's educational publishing division, with a leading market position in the US and among other English speaking territories including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa. Harcourt's international publishing imprints include Heinemann.
[edit] Pricing issues
Reed Elsevier has been criticised for its pricing policies, especially Elsevier and LexisNexis. Members of the scientific community have called for a boycott of Elsevier journals and a move to open access publications such as those of the Public Library of Science or BioMed Central.
[edit] Arms dealing
Members of the medical and scientific communities, which purchase and use many journals published by Reed Elsevier, have agitated for the company to cut its links to the arms trade. Two UK academics, Dr. Tom Stafford of Sheffield University and Dr Nick Gill, have launched petitions calling on Reed Elsevier to stop organising arms fairs. [1][2]. A subsidiary, Spearhead, organizes defence shows, including a recent event where it was reported that cluster bombs and extremely powerful riot control equipment were offered for sale.
[edit] External links
- ketupa.net media profile: Reed Elsevier historical overview
- Double Dutch No Longer in-depth article about the company from 2002 (Forbes.com)
- Official web site Reed Elsevier
- Official web site Elsevier
- Official web site LexisNexis
- Official web site Harcourt
- Official web site Reed Business
- Attorney directory for consumers from Reed Elsevier LexisNexis
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