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Jun 7, 2022

Elsevier acquires Interfolio

Elsevier has acquired Interfolio, a provider of advanced faculty information solutions for higher education, headquartered in Washington DC, US.

Company: [Elsevier] [Interfolio] [RELX]

Nov 29, 2021

Elsevier acquires Osmosis.org

Elsevier acquired Osmosis, a US-based visual learning platform that has simplified the complex learning journey for millions of current and future healthcare professionals and their patients around the world.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Osmosis]

Dec 9, 2020

Elsevier acquires Shadow Health

Elsevier acquired Shadow Health, a Florida-based developer of virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Shadow Health]

Aug 21, 2020

Elsevier acquires SciBite

Elsevier acquired SciBite, a semantic AI company headquartered in Cambridge, UK. SciBite's solutions identify and extract scientific insights from structured and unstructured text and content, to identify key concepts such as drugs, proteins, companies, targets, and outcomes. This semantically-enriched, machine-readable data, helps SciBite's customers around the world make streamlined, more efficient decisions. SciBite was founded in 2011 by Dr. Lee Harland, who currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer at the company.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [SciBite]

Mar 11, 2020

Elsevier acquires Authess

Elsevier acquired Authess, the Boston-based developer of an advanced performance-based competency assessment platform that evaluates how students solve complex, open-ended problems they would encounter on the job. Founded in 2015, Authess built a scalable platform for authoring, delivering and scoring performance-based competency assessments. The company's machine-learning models and data analytics observe students as they work through a task, capturing not just their answers but their behaviour, process and problem-solving approach.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Authess]

Nov 27, 2019

Elsevier acquires 3D4Medical for $50.6 million

Elsevier acquired 3D4Medical, the global anatomy education company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. 3D4Medical created Complete Anatomy, the world's most advanced 3D anatomy platform, revolutionizing how students, educators, health professionals and patients understand and interact with anatomy. With outstanding technology and design that pushes the boundaries of how people learn using advanced 3D visualization tools, Complete Anatomy has garnered more than a million registered users at more than 300 of the world's top universities.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [3D4Medical]

Jul 29, 2019

Elsevier acquires Parity Computing

Elsevier signed a definitive agreement to acquire Parity Computing, a California-based business that employs artificial intelligence to provide high-accuracy entity resolution, profiling and recommendations for STM content and applications in the world of research. Parity provides disambiguation technology for Elsevier's abstract and indexing databases that help researchers, universities, national bodies and other stakeholders improve decision-making and answer critical questions. Resolving ambiguities in entities and relationships that appear in publications lays the foundation for the analytics and decision support capabilities of Scopus.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Parity Computing]

Feb 15, 2019

Kumsal Bayazit appointed Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier

Elsevier appointed Kumsal Bayazit as Chief Executive Officer effective February 15, 2019.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Dec 9, 2018

Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix

Elsevier has acquired Science-Metrix Inc., a research evaluation firm that provides science research evaluation and analytics to assess science and technology activities. Headquartered in Montréal, Canada, Science-Metrix is known for high-quality and independent bibliometric analysis and research evaluation.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Science-Metrix]

Sep 10, 2018

Elsevier acquires Aries Systems

Elsevier completed its acquisition of Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, Massachusetts. Aries' offerings are used by journals, books and other publications for manuscript submission, peer review, production tracking and eCommerce.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Aries Systems]

Apr 5, 2018

Elsevier launches Mendeley Data

Elsevier launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data. With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Jan 17, 2018

Elsevier acquires Via Oncology

Elsevier acquired Via Oncology, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that provides decision support and best practices in cancer care management. A former subsidiary of UPMC, one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare delivery and financing systems, Via Oncology helps cancer centers demonstrate the value of their care to patients, referring physicians and payers by developing and implementing clinical pathways in collaboration with its network of more than 1,500 US cancer care providers.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Via Oncology]

Aug 2, 2017

Elsevier acquires Bepress

Elsevier has acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions' research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress allows institutions to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate their intellectual output, including preprints, working papers, journals or specific articles, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings and a wide variety of other data.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Feb 2, 2017

Elsevier acquires Plum Analytics

Elsevier acquired Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services, a global information services company providing research and discovery platforms and access to premium content. The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions.

Company: [Elsevier] [Plum Analytics] [RELX]

Jun 7, 2016

Elsevier acquires laboratory data management tool Hivebench

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Hivebench, the flagship product of researcher application developer Shazino, based in Lyon, France. This tool will be integrated into Elsevier's existing Research Data Management portfolio, resulting in the further enhancement of the researcher experience.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Hivebench]

May 17, 2016

Elsevier acquires SSRN

Elsevier acquires Social Science Research Network, with plans to strengthen it alongside Mendeley's technology platform, marks a significant advancement for each community of users

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [SSRN]

May 17, 2016

Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network

Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network and plans to strengthen it alongside Mendeley's technology platform

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Jul 1, 2015

Elsevier Acquires InferMed

Elsevier acquired InferMed, a London-based clinical decision support technology company. InferMed's Arezzo technology supports clinicians in choosing the most appropriate treatment path for each patient. Arezzo matches appropriate evidence-based guidelines with patient information and dynamically evaluates best-practice options in the light of current patient and disease information. Arezzo helps physicians improve care outcomes while taking unnecessary costs out of the system.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [InferMed]

Feb 25, 2015

Elsevier parent company Reed Elsevier becomes RELX Group

All Reed Elsevier businesses, subsidiaries and financing activities below the two listed parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV, has been transferred to a new single group entity. This entity has been named RELX Group plc. RELX Group plc will continue to be owned by Reed Elsevier PLC, the London listing vehicle, and Reed Elsevier NV, the Amsterdam listing vehicle, although we will be asking shareholders at the Annual General Meeting to change their names to RELX PLC and RELX NV respectively.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Feb 25, 2015

Reed Elsevier becomes RELX

From February 25, ownership of all Reed Elsevier businesses, subsidiaries and financing activities below the two listed parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV, has been transferred to a new single group entity. This entity has been named RELX Group plc. RELX Group plc will continue to be owned by Reed Elsevier PLC, the London listing vehicle, and Reed Elsevier NV, the Amsterdam listing vehicle, although we will be asking shareholders at the Annual General Meeting to change their names to RELX PLC and RELX NV respectively.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Jan 12, 2015

Elsevier acquires Newsflo

Elsevier has acquired Newsflo, a London-based company that helps researchers and academic institutions to measure the wider impact of their work by tracking and analyzing media coverage of their publications and findings.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Newsflo]

Jul 12, 2014

Elsevier acquires Amirsys

Elsevier acquired Amirsys. Focused on visually oriented medical disciplines like radiology, pathology and anatomy, Amirsys' global solutions give healthcare providers the expert information and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to make informed, expert and evidence-based diagnoses. Amirsys also provides learning environments that help those training in these disciplines to sharpen their diagnostic skills and increase their knowledge.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Amirsys]

Aug 12, 2013

Elsevier acquires Woodhead Publishing

Elsevier announced it has acquired Woodhead Publishing Limited, an award-winning, UK-based publisher known for its high-quality content in the fields of materials science, food science, engineering, energy & environmental technology, textile technology and biomedicine. The acquisition of Woodhead Publishing also includes Chandos Publishing, which is known for its strong publishing program in library information science and Asian studies.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Woodhead Publishing]

Aug 7, 2013

Elsevier acquires certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company

Elsevier acquired certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company. The portfolio of 32 books includes petroleum engineering titles in drilling, pipeline, oil and gas, and safety. The GPC titles are for professionals in upstream oil and gas engineering and cover drilling, recovery methods, reservoir management, processing, and pipeline transmission.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Gulf Publishing Company]

Apr 9, 2013

Elsevier acquires Mendeley

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Mendeley, a London-based company that operates a global research management and collaboration platform. Researchers worldwide use Mendeley's desktop and cloud-based tools to manage and annotate documents, create citations and bibliographies, collaborate on research projects and network with fellow academics.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Mendeley]

Jan 8, 2013

Elsevier acquires Aureus Sciences

Elsevier acquired Aureus Sciences, a Paris, France based privately held company that provides databases and information tools to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Formed in 2002, Aureus Sciences gathers unique and high quality quantitative biological activity data for major therapeutic drug targets. This content enables researchers to identify the most promising compounds, repurpose existing compounds and identify targets with which the new compounds might interact.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [ Aureus Sciences]

Jan 7, 2013

Elsevier acquires Knovel

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Knovel Corp. New York City-based Knovel provides a web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Founded in 2001, Knovel has developed a deep knowledge of the engineering community and is a valuable tool for thousands of engineers and students in more than 700 corporations and engineering schools worldwide. Knovel integrates information and data from more than 100 engineering societies and publishers and makes it highly searchable and interactive so that engineers can easily manipulate the data they find and use it in other engineering applications.

Company: [Elsevier] [Knovel Corporation] [RELX]

Sep 10, 2012

Elsevier acquires ExitCare

Elsevier acquired ExitCare, an enterprise-wide solution for patient education and discharge instructions. ExitCare provides peer-reviewed patient education and discharge instructions to support clinicians, empower patients and help providers meet their patients' educational needs.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [ExitCare]

Aug 15, 2012

Elsevier Acquires Atira and its Pure research information system

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Atira, a provider of software and tools that help academic institutions and researchers manage and improve their research outcomes. Atira complements Elsevier's SciVal by expanding the scope of data to report on research activities across an academic institution, and by broadening the range of tools and dashboards to analyse those data. Atira's main product, Pure, is a flexible research information system that enables the planning, evaluation and reporting of research activities.

Company: [Elsevier] [Atira] [RELX]

Jul 2012

Taylor & Francis acquires Focal Press from Elsevier

Company: [Taylor and Francis] [Elsevier] [RELX]

Jan 12, 2012

Elsevier acquires QUOSA

Elsevier acquired QUOSA a content management and workflow productivity solutions provider for researchers and information managers. QUOSA's current solutions and platform, including its Information Manager and Virtual Library, will continue to be supported. QUOSA's technological capabilities will be developed into Elsevier-branded solutions, raising the efficiency of the search and discovery process. They will also allow researchers and information professionals to manage information more efficiently at the various stages of the research workflow including organizing, archiving and sharing.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [QUOSA]

Dec 8, 2011

Elsevier acquires Ariadne Genomics

Elsevier acquiredf the business assets of Ariadne Genomics, a provider of pathway analysis tools and semantic technologies for life science researchers. Ariadne will be integrated with Elsevier's Corporate Markets division.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Ariadne Genomics]

May 9, 2011

Elsevier acquires Fisterra.Com

Elsevier acquired Fisterra.com, an award winning, widely used e-clinical reference solution in Spain. Fisterra was launched in 2002 by two primary care doctors and a medical librarian in response to the need for an online short answer Spanish language reference solution to help primary care physicians. Fisterra.com provides access to Fisterrae, an advanced e-clinical reference solution that integrates support resources for health professionals in a local language platform. Fisterrae is written by doctors and pharmacists and is kept permanently up to date by following medical journals, reviews by the Cochrane Library and the most important databases of clinical practice guidelines.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Oct 18, 2010

Omnicom Group acquires Excerpta Medica from Elsevier

Omnicom Group's Diversified Agency Services has acquired Amsterdam-based medical communications agency Excerpta Medica from Elsevier, a division of Reed Elsevier Group plc. Excerpta Medica will become a division of DAS's Adelphi, a group of businesses that provide multiperspective healthcare solutions to the pharmaceutical industry. Excerpta will continue to operate as an independent business, with offices in Amsterdam, New Jersey and London.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Excerpta Medica]

Jun 9, 2010

Elsevier acquires Collexis

Elsevier acquired assets from Collexis Holdings, a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software. The combination of Elsevier's content and Collexis' semantic technology will provide institutions and researchers new ways to collaborate, showcase accomplishments and improve grant related workflow efficiencies.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Collexis]

Jan 5, 2010

Elsevier acquires NurseSquared

Elsevier acquired NurseSquared, the leading electronic health record (EHR) training product in the market that teaches students how to properly document using a simulated EHR. The NurseSquared training tool allows Elsevier to offer a more complete curriculum solution, including an EHR training tool, to academic customers.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [NurseSquared]

Jan 20, 2009

Elsevier acquires William Andrew Publishing

Elsevier acquired the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. Over the last 18 months, Elsevier and William Andrew have built a valuable strategic alliance including print distribution of William Andrew books globally outside of North America and electronic distribution of William Andrew content on Elsevier's globally renowned electronic publishing platforms: Science Direct and Engineering Village.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [William Andrew Publishing]

Oct 2007

Symyx Technologies, Inc. acquires MDL from Elsevier

Company: [MDL Information Systems] [Elsevier] [RELX]

Nov 21, 2006

Francisco Partners acquires Endeavor Information Systems from Elsevier

The Ex Libris Group, a leading worldwide developer and provider of high-performance applications for libraries and information centers, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Francisco Partners, one of the world's largest technology-focused private equity funds, for the acquisition of 100% of the Company's shares. This acquisition will enable Ex Libris to continue expanding its geographical reach and explore acquisition opportunities for complementary products in the library automation and e-resource markets.

Company: [Ex Libris] [Endeavor Information Systems] [Elsevier]

Oct 13, 2006

Reed Elsevier sells Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann Divisions to Houghton Mifflin Company

Houghton Mifflin Company and its parent, Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, today announced that Houghton Mifflin has completed the acquisition of the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions from Reed Elsevier

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

May 26, 2005

Reed Elsevier acquires Netter publications from MediMedia

Reed Elsevier announces binding offer to acquire MediMedia's European and US Netter professional medical publishing businesses for €270

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [MediMedia]

2004

Elsevier launches SCOPUS

Scopus - covering 14,000 scientific titles plus 167 million scientific web pages, and delivering the largest collection of abstracts ever collected online in one place, going back forty years - is now commercially available for trial and sale to any institution.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

2002

Reed Elsevier becomes Elsevier

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Apr 2000

Elsevier Science acquires Endeavor Information Systems

In April 2000, the founders of Endeavor Information Systtems sold the company to Elsevier Science, an Amsterdam-based multinational publisher of scientific scholarly literature.

Company: [Ex Libris] [Elsevier] [Endeavor Information Systems]

Apr 1999

Elsevier acquires Cell Press from Benjamin Lewin

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

1998

Reed Elsevier acquires The Beilstein Database, BioMedNet, ChemWeb, Engineering Information from Current Science Group.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Mar 24, 1997

Reed Elsevier acquires MDL Information Systems

Elsevier Science to acquire MDL Information Systems for $320 Million. MDL Information Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated solutions that accelerate high-throughput discovery and development in the life science and chemical industries. MDL's software systems, databases and services help customers manage, communicate, and analyse the volumes of data associated with modern R&D workflows. With applications supporting chemical and biological information management, bioinformatics, automated synthesis and screening, and materials science, MDL is committed to keeping pace with new technologies in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [MDL Information Systems]

Mar 1997

Elsevier launched ScienceDirect

Elsevier launched ScienceDirect, its platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1997

Elsevier acquires JAI Press

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Jan 1, 1993

Reed International merges with Elsevier NV to form Reed Elsevier PLC

Reed Elsevier came into existence on January 1, 1993 when Reed International P.L.C., a UK company, and Elsevier NV, a Dutch company, contributed all their businesses to two jointly owned companies; Reed Elsevier plc, an operating company and Elsevier Reed BV, a finance company. Reed Elsevier is the name used to refer to the combination of Reed International P.L.C. and Elsevier NV and the two jointly owned subsidiaries. Under the equalization arrangements agreed at the time of the merger, ordinary shareholders in Reed International P.L.C. and Elsevier NV enjoy substantially equivalent dividend and capital rights with respect to their ordinary shares in the net income and net assets of Reed Elsevier.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Reed International]

1991

Elsevier purchases Pergamon Press from Maxwell for $440 million

See New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/business/maxwell-selling-pergamon-cornerstone-of-his-empire.html

Company: [Elsevier]

1991

Elsevier acquires The Lancet from Hodder & Stoughton

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

1991

Elsevier launches The University Licensing Project (TULIP)

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Sep 1986

Reed International acquires Technical Publishing Co. from Dun & Bradstreet for $250 million

Cahners Publishing Company, part of Reed International, acquired Technical Publishing Co. from Dun & Bradstreet for $250 million

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Technical Publishing]

1981

Elsevier acquires Focal Press

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1979

Elsevier acquires Congressional Information Services

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1979

Elsevier acquires Congressional Information Service and Greenwood Publishing

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Congressional Information Service]

1972

Excerpta Medica acquired by Elsevier

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Excerpta Medica]

1971

Elsevier Publishing Company NV, North Holland Publishing Company, and Excerpta Medica merge to form Excerpta Medica

Company: [Elsevier]

1971

Elsevier acquires Excerpta Medica

Elsevier acquires the medical abstracting service and databank Excerpta Medica.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Jan 1, 1970

Elsevier Science Publishers acquires North Holland Publishing Company

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [North Holland Publishing Company]

1962

Elsevier Publishing Company launched in the United States and United Kingdom

Company: [Elsevier]

1880

Elsevier was founded as a small Dutch publisher (NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier)

Elsevier founded in Rotterdam by five Dutch booksellers, led by Jacobus George Robbers.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]