The weekly was an instant success and very profitable. The expansion of Elsevier in the scientific field after 1945 was funded with the profits of the newsweekly Elsevier, which published its first issue on 27 October 1945. According to Elsevier, this logo represents 'the symbiotic relationship between publisher and scholar'. As a company logo, Elsevier used the Elzevir family's printer's mark, a tree entwined with a vine and the words Non Solus, which is Latin for 'not alone'. The Elzevir family operated as booksellers and publishers in the Netherlands the founder, Lodewijk Elzevir (1542–1617), lived in Leiden and established that business in 1580. The original seal of the Elsevier family is used by Elsevier company as its logo.Įlsevier was founded in 1880 and adopted the name and logo from the Dutch publishing house Elzevir that was an inspiration and has no connection to the contemporary Elsevier. 7.5 Rejection of the Initiative for Open Citations.7.3 Action against academics posting their own articles online.7.1 Lobbying efforts against open access.6 Relationship with academic institutions.Seen as generating massive profits from copyrights while adding little to no value to their products, Elsevier is commonly accused of rent-seeking. Įlsevier's high operating profit margins (37% in 2018) and £950 million in profits, often on publicly funded research works Īnd its copyright practices have subjected it to criticism by researchers. Total yearly downloads amount to more than 1 billion. Its archives contain over 17 million documents and 40,000 e-books. Įlsevier publishes more than 500,000 articles annually in 2,500 journals. Elsevier's products and services also include digital tools for data management, instruction, research analytics and assessment. Its products include journals such as The Lancet and Cell, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, the Trends and Current Opinion series of journals, the online citation database Scopus, the SciVal tool for measuring research performance, the ClinicalKey search engine for clinicians, and the ClinicalPath evidence-based cancer care service.

It is a part of the RELX Group, known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier. Elsevier ( Dutch: ) is a Netherlands-based publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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