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Elsevier: mergers and acquisitions

Elsevier corporate profile Jun 2022: Elsevier acquires Interfolio 1999: Interfolio founded by Georgetown University senior Steve Goldenberg Aug 2019: Interfolio acquires Research Fish Aug 2020: Elsevier acquires SciBite 2011: SciBite founded by Dr. Lee Harland May 2020: Elsevier acquires Authess 2015: Authess founded by Chris Kaiser, Paul Crockett, Sundar Subramaniam Jun 2019: Elsevier acquires Parity Computing Jan 1999: Parity Computing founded by Dr. Ramamohan Paturi Dec 2018: Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix 2002: Science-Metrix founded by Eric Archambault and Grégoire Côté Sep 2018: Elsevier acquires Aries Systems 1986: Aries Systems founded by Lyndon Holmes Aug 2017: Elsevier acquires Bepress and its Digital Commons institutional repository platform 1999: Bepress founded by three professors from Stanford University—Robert Cooter, Aaron Edlin, and Benjamin E. Hermalin Feb 2017: Elsevier acquires Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services 2011: Plum Analytics founded by Andrea Michalek Jun 2016: Elsevier acquires laboratory data management tool Hivebench 2012: Hivebench founded by Julien Therier May 2016: Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network 1994: Social Science Research Network founded by Michael C. Jensen and Wayne Marr Jul 2015: Elsevier acquires InferMed, a clinical decision support technology company 1999: InferMed founded by Alan Montgomery Jan 2015: Elsevier acquires Newsflo, developer of a service that enables researchers and academic institutions to measure the wider impact of their work by tracking and analyzing media coverage of their publications and findings 2012: Newsflo founded by Imperial College London physicists Jul 2014: Elsevier acquires Amirsys 2000: Amirsys founded by neuroradiologists Dr. Anne Osborn and Dr. H. Ric Harnsberger Apr 2013: Elsevier acquires Mendeley Nov 2007: Mendeley founded by Jan Reichelt, Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning Jan 2013: Elsevier acquires Aureus Sciences 2002: Aureus Sciences founded Jan 2013: Elsevier acquires Knovel 2001: Knovel founded by Chris Forbes Aug 2012: Elsevier Acquires Atira and its Pure research information system 2002: Atira A/S founded Jan 2012: Elsevier acquires QUOSA 1996: QUOSA founded Dec 2011: Elsevier acquires Ariadne Genomics 2002: Ariadne Genomics founded Jan 2010: Elsevier acquires Collexis 1998: Collexis Holdings founded Apr 2000: Elsevier Science acquires Endeavor Information Systems Nov 1994: Endeavor Information Systems founded Mar 1997: Reed Elsevier acquires MDL Information Systems 1978: MDL Information Systems founded 1991: Elsevier acquires The Lancet Elsevier acquires The Lancet from Hodder & Stoughton 1999: Elsevier acquires Elsevier acquires Cell Press from Benjamin Lewin Jan 2009: Elsevier acquires William Andrew Publishing 1971: Elsevier acquires Excerpta Medica 1991: Elsevier launches The University Licensing Project (TULIP) as an early project to make scientific journals available over the Internet Mar 1997: Elsevier launched ScienceDirect Aug 2012: Elsevier acquires Pure research information management system through its acquisition of Atira 2004: Elsevier launches SCOPUS 2008: Elsevier launches SciVal 1974: Elsevier offers EMBASE (Excerpta Medica database) Feb 2015: Reed Elsevier becomes RELX Jan 1993: Reed International merges with Elsevier NV to form Reed Elsevier 1880: Elsevier was founded as Uitgevers-Maatschappij Elsevier in 1880