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HERITAGE
A Short History of Elsevier

OUR HERITAGE IS A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY

While historians have recorded science and medicine’s key moments of progress — from Galileo’s celestial revelations to Fleming’s discovery of penicillin to the recent identification of SARS as a Corona virus — few have taken the time to examine the role that publishers have played in the history of science.

We recently celebrated the 125th birthday of Elsevier and the 425th anniversary of the publishing house of Elzevir from which the modern company takes its name. In that time Elsevier has evolved from a small Dutch publishing house devoted to the promulgation of classical scholarship to an international multimedia publishing company that currently provides over 20,000 titles and products to science and healthcare communities worldwide.

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Elsevier’s history is one of a series of collaborations in the effort to advance science and health. The fruits of the collaboration between Elsevier and the eclectic group of scientific visionaries that it has published — ranging from Jules Verne to Stephen W. Hawking — created a foundation of scientific and medical publishing. Equally important are the cumulative efforts of the men and women who have dedicated their lives to disseminating and using scientific and medical knowledge: the editors, the printers, the librarians, the nurses, the doctors, the engineers, the information specialists, and the business people who are at the heart of scientific and health publishing.

Integral to Elsevier's success are a number of important relationships with other great science publishers — North Holland,  Excerpta Medica, Pergamon, Mosby, W.B. Saunders, Churchill Livingstone and academic Press, to name but a few of the companies that are now part of the Elsevier family, bringing with them long and rich histories of their own. As the company moves forward into the new millennium, its founding motto is more apt than ever: Non Solus (not alone).


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