Elsevier provides its customers with scientific, technical and medical content and tools that improve productivity in research, healthcare and health education.
Elsevier serves a global network of 7,000 editors, 70,000 editorial board members, 300,000 reviewers, and more than 600,000 authors. Its products reach more than 12 million researchers in 4,500 institutions, five million students, and 15 million doctors, nurses and health professionals.
Growth in the scientific information market is driven by increases in research output, R&D spend, the number of researchers worldwide, and the need for improved research efficiency. In healthcare, growth is driven by advances in medical science and the shift from activity-based to outcomes-based models of patient care and associated demands for increased productivity.
The Science and Technology division of Elsevier is the world’s leading global academic journal publisher. Its customers are the world’s libraries, scientists and professionals, who rely on Elsevier to provide high quality content, to review, publish, disseminate, and preserve research findings, and to create innovative workflow tools to improve their efficiency in using that information. Its flagship electronic product, ScienceDirect , is the world’s largest database of scientific, technical and medical journal articles and is accessed by over 11 million users each year. ScienceDirect holds almost nine million scientific articles and an expanding portfolio of books online.
Elsevier’s growing online offerings also include Scopus, an abstract and index database and navigational tool, which now has nearly 33 million abstracts of scientific research articles from 15,000 peer reviewed publications, over 21 million patents, and references to over 386 million web pages.
The Health Sciences division of Elsevier serves medical researchers, practising professionals, educators and students globally. It publishes over 700 journals, including a number of journals for learned societies, and over 2,000 book titles and clinical reference works annually. Growth in electronic health information is accelerating and the business continues to expand its portfolio of online health information tools for education, practitioner reference, and point of care decision making. Elsevier’s clinical reference and decision support products include MDConsult , which now has over eight million page views per month and more than 1,700 institutional customers. Health Sciences provides online and multimedia products for use by both medical faculties and students to support core textbooks, including Evolve , which now has more than one million registered users and, through Health Education Systems Inc, diagnostic tests for nursing and allied health markets.
Internationally, Elsevier leverages its print and online content into new markets through foreign language versions.
Elsevier aims to make valued contributions to the science and health communities by combining world class content with productivity enhancing solutions for scientific researchers and health professionals worldwide.
Its key strategic areas of focus are:
- Quality of content.
- Customer service and customer relations.
- Development of productivity-enhancing online solutions.
- Expanded penetration of high-growth markets.
- Organisational efficiency.