Elsevier history: Get Familiar With ScienceDirect and Scopus

Elsevier history

In 1580, Mr. Luis Elsevier established a family publication in the Netherlands, named Elsevier. 300 years later, in 1880, the publication began to work as a company in the Netherlands and formalized its activities. Currently, the headquarters of the publishing house is located in the city of Amsterdam and has become one of the two major science hubs alongside ISI (in the US).

Now, Elsevier has more than 7,000 employees in 24 countries and provides services to around 30 million scientists, students, and specialist. Also, 600,000 authors are collaborating with this company. Currently, it publishes about 2,700 journals and has published more than 20,000 books, one of the world's most prominent books.

Elsevier logo

In the logo of Elsevier, one of the most famous images of the world, there is an old man who is picking a grape from a vine that this vine is twisted around an elongated tree. In the other section, there is an image of the text that means "NON SOLUS". In the official history of Elsevier, it has been said that this picture reflects the relationship between the publisher and the researcher. Elder tree is a publisher's symbol, which should provide a strong support for the vine, which is the symbol of the researcher to produce the fruit.

Elsevier subsets

Elsevier was widely expanded in the years after the official start of his activities. Currently, the company has many sub-collections, including ScienceDirect and Scopus.

ScienceDirect: As mentioned, ScienceDirect is one of the subsets of the Elsevier Company. The database contains over 11 million complete articles and books' chapter, and each year there are nearly half a million articles and books' chapter added. About 25 percent of the world's science products are produced by Elsevier and these products are available on ScienceDirect. It is currently published in dozens of journals in most disciplines including basic sciences, psychology, education, politics, physics, law, computer engineering and many other disciplines.

Scopus: In 2004, Elsevier Company launched Scopus in collaboration with 21 institutes from around the world. Scopus can be considered a kind of Thomson Reuters (ISI). The goal of this institution is to determine the quality of papers, the best countries in terms of scientific production, reliable publications, and the review of scientific institutions and scientists. It also examines the number of citations and abstracts of articles. Currently, Scopus indexes about 18500 journals from 5,000 international publications. On the site, you can access up to 5 million conference papers and 50 million other documents. Finally, compare Scopus and the ISI, Scopus is 20 percent larger than its competitor and index more journals.