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Wolters Kluwer acquired the company in October, 1998, for $24.59/share. Ovid continued to make inroads against its competitors. In 2001, Wolters Kluwer purchased the rival SilverPlatter company and merged it into Ovid during 2001 and early 2002. [5] Ovid introduced a new database search interface called OvidSP in 2007.
In 1997 and 1998, Wolters Kluwer acquired Thomson Science (owner of the Current Opinion medical journals), and Plenum and merged the medical publications of each with Lippincott-Raven. [3] In 1998, Wolters Kluwer bought Waverly, parent of Williams & Wilkins of Baltimore and merged it into Lippincott-Raven to form LWW. [4] Waverly had acquired ...
Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a Dutch information services company. [3] [4] The company serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets. [3] Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger between Kluwer Publishers and Wolters Samsom. [5] [6] It operates in over 150 countries. [3]
In August 2010, the company launched its iPad app and announced partnerships with John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Wolters Kluwer. [3] The company initially focused on creating interactive e-book versions of existing textbooks. In 2011, it added other types of general-interest non-fiction titles, such as travel guides and cookbooks. [4] [5]
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Medicine is an open access peer-reviewed medical journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [1] an imprint of Wolters Kluwer.It was established in 1922. Of general medical journals still in publication since 1959, Medicine had the highest number of citations per paper between 1959 and 2009. [2]
They merged the company in 2004 with the Dutch publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers (successor of D. Reidel, Dr. W. Junk, Plenum Publishers, most of Chapman & Hall), and Baltzer Science Publishers) which they bought from Wolters Kluwer in 2002, [5] to form Springer Science+Business Media. In 2006, Springer acquired Humana Press. [6]
UpToDate, Inc. is a company in the Wolters Kluwer Health division of Wolters Kluwer, the main product of which is the eponymous UpToDate, a software system that is a point-of-care medical resource. The UpToDate system is an evidence-based clinical resource.