Record ID:
64522770 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no2013140265
Heading:
Fields of activity:
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Science publishing
See also:
Notes:
  • Elsevier website, viewed view WWW, October 24, 2013 (Elsevier)
  • "Contact us" page on Elsevier website, viewed October 25, 2013 (This website is owned and operated by Elsevier Inc/1600 John F Kennedy Boulevard Suite 1800 Philadelphia PA 19103-2879 USA)
  • A short history of Elsevier [pdf], accessed via WWW, October 24, 2013 (publishing firm founded March 1880; name inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch publisher Elzevir but modern company is not successor to that earlier firm; based in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 1887; Elsevier was publisher of literary classics 1880-approximately 1930s; increased scientific publication activities 1930s-present; opened branch in U.K. in 1961, opened marketing, distribution, and publishing center in New York in 1962; merged with North Holland [publisher] 1970; merged with Excerpta Medica [medical abstracts company], 1971; increased publication of medical journals in 1970s; purchased Pergamon Press, Inc. in 1991; parent company Elsevier N.V. merged with Reed [media conglomerate], 1993 which included acquisition of titles of Butterworth-Heinemann [publisher]; in early 1990s management changed organization from divisions based on geographic boundaries to single organizational structure; most of Harcourt [publishing company] acquired by Reed Elsevier in early 2000s, imprints acquired from Harcourt included Churchill Livingstone imprint, Academic Press imprint, Mosby imprint, and W.B. Saunders imprint; Elsevier acquired Hanley & Belfus, Inc. in 2002; description of activities during early 1990s in refers to name Elsevier Science Publishers) http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/pdf_file/0014/102632/historyofelsevier.pdf
  • "Our history" page on Reed Elsevier WWW site, viewed November 15, 2013 (In 1993 Reed International PLC (now renamed Reed Elsevier PLC) and Elsevier NV (now renamed Reed Elsevier NV) contributed their respective businesses to form Reed Elsevier. The combined businesses operate through two jointly owned companies: Reed Elsevier Group plc (which owns the publishing and information businesses); and Elsevier Reed Finance BV (which owns the financing activities).) http://www.reedelsevier.com/aboutus/OurHistory/Pages/Home.aspx
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)918512
Cataloguing source:
  • TMM eng rda TMM IEN ANL