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It was formed in 1971 from the merger of Longman's medical list, E & S Livingstone (Edinburgh, Scotland) and J & A Churchill (London, England) and was owned by Pearson. Harcourt acquired Churchill Livingstone in 1997. [1] It is now integrated as an imprint in Elsevier's health science division after Elsevier acquired Harcourt in 2001.
Cecil Textbook of Medicine (sometimes called Cecil Medicine or Goldman-Cecil Medicine) is a medical textbook published by Elsevier under the Saunders imprint. [1] It was first published in 1927 as the Textbook of Medicine, by Russell LaFayette Cecil. [2] [3] In the United States, it is a prominent and widely consulted medical textbook. [3]
ScienceDirect is a searcheable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers. It hosts over 18 million publons from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books.
Book of Optics (c. 1000) - Exerted great influence on Western science. [16] It was translated into Latin and it was used until the early 17th century. [ 17 ] The German physician Hermann von Helmholtz reproduced several theories of visual perception that were found in the first Book of Optics , which he cited and copied from.
Elsevier's parent company, RELX, has a global workforce that is 51% female to 49% male, with 43% female and 57% male managers, and 29% female and 71% male senior operational managers. [38] [39] In 2018, Elsevier accounted for 34% of the revenues of RELX group (£2.538 billion of £7.492 billion).
Among other things, the book is known for the discovery of contagious diseases, and the introduction of experimental medicine, [1] clinical trials, [2] randomized controlled trials, [3] [4] efficacy tests, [5] [6] and clinical pharmacology. [7] The work is considered one of the most famous books in the history of medicine. [8]
A book's absolute appeal can be determined simply by counting how many libraries hold it, but it can also be gauged in relation to other books in its subject class. [ 17 ] Libcitations , according to the RIMS, reflect what librarians know about the prestige of publishers, the opinions of reviewers, and the reputations of authors.
This is a list of notable scientific, technical and general interest periodicals published by Elsevier or one of its imprints or subsidiary companies. Contents A