Elsevier
Dutch publishing giant
Elsevier is a major academic publishing company based in the Netherlands, known for scientific, technical, and medical journals and textbooks.
Founded in 1880, it publishes thousands of peer-reviewed journals including *The Lancet* and *Cell*, and operates the ScienceDirect database.
The company has drawn criticism from academics and librarians for high subscription costs and profit margins on publicly funded research, fueling the open-access movement.
Systematic fact-finding effort
- citationMention of a source
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- articlesWritten works or items
- abstractsCondensed versions of documents
bibliography · methodology · findings · authors · references · disciplines · university · library
Periodicals or personal logs
- textbooksEducational reference volumes
- imprintsMarks made by pressing
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- subscriptionPaid recurring access
paywalls · Lancet · databases · monographs · periodicals · distribution · editorial · readership
research
Systematic fact-finding effort
abstracts · bibliography · methodology · findings · authors · references · disciplines · university · library · science
journals
Periodicals or personal logs
- textbooksEducational reference volumes
- imprintsMarks made by pressing
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
subscription · paywalls · Lancet · databases · monographs · periodicals · distribution · editorial · readership · volume
boycott
Organized economic protest