Reed Elsevier. Reed Elsevier is a publisher and information provider operating in the science, medical, legal, risk and business sectors. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. It is a FTSE 100 and FT Global 500 company.[2] The Reed Elsevier group is a dual-listed company consisting of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV.[3] History[edit] The company came into being in Autumn 1992 as the result of a merger between Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and the Dutch science publisher Elsevier.[4] Reed International[edit] In 1894, Albert E. Amsterdam headquarters of Reed Elsevier Elsevier NV[edit] In 1880, Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company called NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier (Elsevier Publishing Company NV) to publish literary classics and the encyclopedia Winkler Prins.[5] Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family Elzevir,[5] which, for example, published the works of Erasmus in 1587. 21st century[edit]
Reed Business Information. Reed Business Information is a provider of data services, business information and marketing to businesses. The company is based in the United Kingdom, United States, China, Singapore, Continental Europe and Australia. Reed Business Information is a division of Reed Elsevier and is often referred to as RBI. The company produces industry specific data services and tools, online community and job sites as well as business magazines. It provides services to specific sectors including chemicals, agriculture, HR, property, finance, science and aerospace. Among its best known brands or publications are ICIS, XpertHR, Estates Gazette and New Scientist. Since 2009 Reed Business Information has focused on paid content, data services and online marketing. In 2011 RBI made four acquisitions. In November 2011, RBI completed the acquisition of Accuity Inc. On 17 March 2014 RBI acquired Innovata LLC, a leading provider of airline schedules data, maps and tools for the global air travel market.
Emedia. New Scientist. New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine,[3] founded by Tom Margerison in 1956.[2] Since 1996 it has also run a website. Sold in retail outlets and on subscription, the magazine covers current developments, news, reviews and commentary on science and technology. It also prints speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical. There is a readers' letters section which discusses recent articles, and discussions also take place on the website.
Readers contribute observations on examples of pseudoscience to Feedback, and questions and answers on scientific and technical topics to Last Word; extracts from the latter have been compiled into several books. New Scientist is based in London, England, and publishes editions in the UK, the United States, and Australia. Sumit Paul-Choudhury became editor in 2011,[4] following Roger Highfield's move to the National Museum of Science and Industry in London.[5] History[edit] 1998. Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. New Scientist (@newscientist) sur Twitter. Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. History[edit] Established by Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1948, the group first began as a German book club. In the 1960s, it purchased Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag, two German publishing companies.
In 1985, it acquired the retail book division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, naming it the Henry Holt Book Company. In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as eBooks via Baen Ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management (DRM). Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros (as of 2005); 49% of sales are in Germany and 23% in North America. Chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Subsidiaries and Imprints[edit] In Germany: In the United States: In the United Kingdom: In India: See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Official website. Macmillan Publishers. 2008 conference booth Macmillan Publishers Ltd,[1] also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others. History[edit] Other major writers who would be published by Macmillan included W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Sean O'Casey, John Maynard Keynes, Charles Morgan, Hugh Walpole, Margaret Mitchell, C. P. Macmillan established an office in New York City. Macmillan Publishers re-entered the American market in 1954 under the name St. After retiring from politics in 1964, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan became chairman of the company, serving until his death in December 1986.[3] The company was one of the oldest independent publishing houses until 1995, when a 70% share of the company was bought by German media giant Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH).
Nature Publishing Group. NPG also publishes Scientific American in 16 languages, a magazine intended for the general public. NPG is a division of Macmillan Publishers, a subsidiary of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Company overview[edit] NPG employs over 800 people[1] in its offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Seoul, Washington, D.C., Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Gurgaon, Mexico City, and Basingstoke.
Products[edit] Journals[edit] Access and pricing[edit] In June 2010, a letter outlining the University of California libraries' pricing challenges with NPG was distributed to university faculty by campus librarians with the support of the systemwide University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. Textbooks[edit] Other services[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American. Scientific American (@sciam) sur Twitter. Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information. Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) sur Twitter.