The Dutch publishing house Elsevier (nowadays Elsevier Reed) continues to prosper, and this week announced pre-tax profits up 9% ( despite the fact that sales of publications decreased during the same period )
Many academics at the University would like a subscription to the flagship Science Direct service. But as they say "pricing models" make this difficult, and we subscribe rather to individual journal titles at the moment.
Elsevier publishes highly prized journals such as New Scientist and the Lancet
The performance of the legal database Lexis-Nexis, much valued by our students, has given some cause for concern, and it was feared that this part of the company might be sold off. This has not happened however and chief executive Erik Engstrom is keen to keep all parts of the company together.
For details on the nature of Elsevier publications our Mediatel database may be of interest.
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