Elsevier at a Glance Empowering Knowledge™

Empowering Knowledge™

Technological advancement and the data revolution have pushed the boundaries of science and medicine. Discoveries unimaginable a generation ago are uncovered every day. At Elsevier, we recognize the potential for scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge and tackle the most urgent global crises.

We want to make analysis easier for everyone working in science and medicine, enabling them to manage their work more efficiently and spend more time making breakthroughs.

That’s why Elsevier is evolving.

Growing from our roots in publishing, we’re creating analytical solutions to serve the needs of science and health.

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Elsevier employs over 1,500 technologists. We work with cutting-edge technologies to create analytics solutions that help advance science, technology and healthcare. Machine learning

Elsevier also applies advanced machine- learning techniques that detect trending topics per domain, helping researchers make more informed decisions. Coupled with the automated profiling and extraction of funding body information from scientific articles, this process supports the whole researcher journey, from planning to execution and funding. 83% Similarly, in health, Elsevier is developing clinical decision support applications that of our revenue comes from utilize cognitive technologies to map digital products. patient and claims data sets and large image and text content repositories.

4 Craig C. Mello physiology/medicine, 2006

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi physiology/medicine, 2008

Elizabeth H. Blackburn physiology/medicine, 2009

Masatoshi Koshiba physics, 2002

Finn E. Kydland economics, 2004

Leonid Hurwicz economics, 2007 Since the year 2000, more than 99% of the Nobel Laureates in science have published in Elsevier journals.

Trusted information

Every tool we develop is built on trusted At Elsevier, we have partnered with the information – because from the library to the lab, scholarly community for 140 years to curate and verify knowledge. Now, as from the institution to the individual, scientific an information analytics business, we’re and medical advancement requires reliable data. committed to bringing that rigor to a new generation of Elsevier platforms – especially at a time when it’s harder than ever to know what to believe.

In 2018, Elsevier’s article output accounted for 18% of global research output while garnering a 25% share of citations, demonstrating Elsevier’s commitment to delivering research quality significantly above of the industry average. 16 m 1 billion

ScienceDirect, the world’s largest 1 billion articles were database dedicated to peer-reviewed downloaded by researchers. primary scientific and medical research, has 16 million monthly unique visitors.

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With more than 39,000 eBooks from Scopus, the leading abstract and citation The machine-learning capability of Reaxys® Elsevier, our imprints and our society database of research literature, contains over enables the chemistry of drug discovery and partners, ScienceDirect empowers 73 million records across 24,000 journals, materials innovation for over 320 pharma smarter research. sourced from more than 5,000 publishers. innovators, 140 chemical companies and 470 universities.

Analytics advantage

As well as enriching science, the proliferation of Elsevier provides information analytics data brings new challenges for those striving for solutions and digital tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D progress. Vast volumes of information are hard performance, clinical decision support, to navigate and organize, increasing the risk of and professional education. critical data being overlooked. In 2018, Elsevier published over 34,000 gold open access articles, a double-digit growth on the previous year, making it It’s tougher to ensure the credibility of one of the largest open access publishers data. Research and healthcare are more in the world. Elsevier’s portfolio of 2,500 complex when incorporating findings journals is managed by more than 20,000 from multiple disciplines. In the globalized editors, and many are the foremost academic community, there is more publications in their field. They include competition than ever for jobs, students flagship titles such asCell and The Lancet and funding. family of journals. In 2018, we launched 9 new subscription and 45 full open access journals, including iScience and One Earth from Cell Press and the Lancet’s Eclinical Medicine.

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Mendeley enables over 11 million ClinicalKey provides over 490 clinical Sherpath provides highly focused, users worldwide, from undergraduates overviews that give quick clinical answers personalized and adaptive learning paths to professionals, to organize, write, and summaries; over 4 million images for more than 33,000 users at over 400 collaborate and promote their research. and 51,000 medical and surgical videos in institutions. a single, fully integrated site.

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SciVal offers insights into the research Scopus is a leading abstract and citation Our Elsevier products are used at more performance of over 10,000 research database of research literature, with over than 25,000 academic and government institutions. 73 million records across 24,000 journals, Institutions around the world. sourced from more than 5,000 publishers.

97% 2018 2018 Category Leader Best in KLAS

Elsevier’s Clinical Solutions are used in Elsevier Care Planning was named a Clinical Pharmacology powered by 9 of the top 10 pharmacies* in the United 2018 Category Leader for the “Clinical ClinicalKey™ is recognized as a top States; 97% of the top 100 health systems Decision Support – Care Plans/Order performer in the 2018 Best in KLAS® (ranked by bed count) use at least one of Sets” category, as determined by KLAS, report for Clinical Decision Support – Elsevier’s Clinical Solutions. the research firm which specializes Point of Care Clinical Reference. Clinical in monitoring and reporting the Pharmacology is accepted by every state perfomance of healthcare vendors. board of pharmacy.

*Pharmacies include both retail pharmacy chains and mail-order pharmacies. Source: Drug Channels Institute data.

7 Elsevier serves the global research community, publishing over 470,000 peer- reviewed articles in 2018 – 60% more than a decade ago.

Featured products establish, execute and evaluate research Pure and services strategies. Pure is an enterprise research management solution that aggregates Scopus® an organization’s research information ScienceDirect® Scopus is the leading abstract and citation from numerous sources into a single ScienceDirect, the world’s largest database database of research literature, with over platform, enabling research networking dedicated to peer-reviewed primary 73 million records across 24,000 journals, and expertise discovery while reducing scientific and medical research, has 16 sourced from more than 5,000 publishers. the administrative burden for faculty million monthly unique visitors. Research Scopus enables researchers to track, and staff. content is distributed and accessed via analyze and visualize the world’s research ScienceDirect, which hosts over 16 million output. ClinicalKey® pieces of content and 39,000 eBooks. Elsevier’s flagship clinical reference We’re adding value to core platforms Reaxys® platform, ClinicalKey gives physicians, by implementing new capabilities such Reaxys* enables the shortest path to nurses and pharmacists access to leading as advanced recommendations on chemistry research answers, supporting evidence-based medical reference ScienceDirect and social collaboration the early stages of drug development in content from Elsevier and third parties. through Mendeley, our reference manager the pharmaceutical industry, exploratory On a single, fully integrated site, users and collaboration tool. chemistry research in academia, and can reference more than 490 clinical product development in industries such as overviews that provide quick answers SciVal chemicals and oil & gas. To help researchers and summaries and more than 4 million SciVal provides insights into the research stay on top of their field, Elsevier developed images and 51,000 medical and surgical performance of over 10,000 research a new chemistry text mining engine, videos. The platform is used in more institutions. Leveraging bibliometric data using state-of-the-art natural language than 90 countries and territories and from Scopus and data sources such as processing that identified 4.9 million key over 1,900 institutions in North America patent citations and usage data, SciVal substances in 5.2 million documents from alone. is a decision tool that helps institutions more than 15,000 journal titles in 2018.

* Reaxys is a trade mark of RELX Intellectual Properties SA, used under license. 8 SSRN SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in social, life and physical sciences. It currently has over 2.5 million monthly visitors and over We provide advanced 850,000 paper abstracts from more than 430,000 authors. It has extracted over technology and 9 million references and 9 million footnotes and matched over 6 million citations from its full-text database of early analytics to filter, stage research. extract and learn ClinicalPath Designed to help improve patient from vast data sets. outcomes, ClinicalPath (formerly Via Oncology) provides clinical pathways delivering personalized, evidence- based guidance at the point of care. ClinicalPath’s network in North America serves 2,300 cancer physicians, 51 practices in 31 states, 16 academic medical centers, 23 hospital systems and 13 community practices.

AREZZO For healthcare professionals, Elsevier’s Clinical Solutions include Arezzo for interactive patient education and care Knovel® Mendeley® planning. An active clinical decision Knovel is a decision support tool for An innovative research management support engine integrated with clinical engineers that helps them select the right and social collaboration platform, care systems, Arezzo matches evidence- materials – a mission-critical use case in Mendeley helps more than 11 million based guidelines with patient and disease product development across chemicals, users worldwide, from undergraduates to information and dynamically evaluates oil & gas and other engineering-focused professionals, organize, write, collaborate best-practice treatment options. industries. and promote their research. Mendeley Data enables researchers to make HESI their research data publicly available A comprehensive assessment solution, by providing an open research data HESI offers valid and reliable exams repository. as well as proven practice and review products that work together seamlessly to STATdx™ help students and programs achieve even STATdx provides diagnostic decision greater levels of success. Over 550 million support and instant access to the collective standardized assessment items have been clinical experience and knowledge of administered by HESI to students in renowned sub-specialists in every field of North America in the past 13 years. radiology. STATdx is recognized by Frost and Sullivan as the 2017 winner of the Sherpath North America Technology Innovation Sherpath – an adaptive teaching and Award for its industry-leading diagnostic learning solution for nursing and health support system for radiologists. education – provides highly focused personalized learning paths at over 400 institutions, supporting more than 37,000 enrollments.

9 11,640,276 Mendeley users registering SSRN 30+ research disciplines

430,000 217,121 authors science and technology jobs

54,773,932 references

16 51 academic medical centers 850,000 ClinicalPath practices research papers

31 states in the US 2,300 23 13 cancer physicians hospital systems community practices Mendeley, SSRN and ClinicalPath are examples of platforms that our communities use to achieve their mission.

A partnership

Collaborating closely with the community means Elsevier has 140 years of experience in we can respond quickly to genuine needs faced by curation and verification. We work with a worldwide network of more than 20,000 those in the field. And it allows us to think ahead editors in academia, 75,382 editorial board and address challenges science and medicine may members and over 1.3 million reviewers face in the future. covering hundreds of disciplines.

10 African researchers with a new platform to boost the impact and discoverability of their research. The Elsevier Foundation has also continued to support Innovate for Life, an accelerator launched by Amref, an Africa- driven international health NGO, to help African entrepreneurs develop solutions to Sustainability and corporate health challenges with funding and access to responsibility Elsevier knowledge and scientific networks. Sense About Science Since 2006, Elsevier has partnered with Sense About Science (SAS), an independent The Elsevier Foundation Research4Life charitable trust championing evidence, Elsevier’s nonprofit arm, the Elsevier Elsevier is one of the 6 original founding scientific reasoning, the needs of early career Foundation, has provided over $1 partners of Research4Life: with over 80,000 researchers, and a public discussion of million a year in grants to knowledge- peer-reviewed resources, Research4Life scientific issues. As part of this partnership, centered institutions around the world has become the primary means of access we work to promote an understanding since 2006. Contributions address the to research for a majority of users in of evidence, sound science and big data UN Sustainable Development Goals developing countries. Elsevier provides a among early career researchers, journalists, through tech-enabled innovations in quarter of that research with approximately policymakers and the public. health information, diversity in science 3,000 Elsevier journals and 20,000 eBooks and health and research in developing as part of its corporate responsibility Using information analytics to provide a countries. Wherever possible, Elsevier program. In 2018, there were over 1.8 foundation for progress donates in-kind resources through million Research4Life downloads from Elsevier is deeply committed to advancing skill-based volunteering and technical, ScienceDirect. women in science. Elsevier’s comprehensive strategic and communications expertise. 2017 report on research performance The Elsevier Foundation also offers Scientific African through a gender lens, Gender in the a comprehensive matching gift and In 2018, Elsevier launched Scientific African, Global Research Landscape, spans 20 volunteering fund to enable employees to an open access collaboration between years, 12 geographies, and 27 disciplines. work with foundation partners to support the Next Einstein Forum and the NEF This global study draws upon data and their communities. Community of Scientists, which will provide analytics, a unique gender disambiguation methodology, and the involvement of global experts. Among the key findings were that the proportion of female researchers and inventors are increasing in all 12 countries, with women specializing more in biomedical and interdisciplinary fields and men in the physical sciences. While, on average, women publish fewer research papers, their articles are downloaded and cited at similar rates and at slightly higher rates in developing the US. Applying its data analytics expertise on cancer research, Elsevier analyzed a vast + quantity of information to hone in on the countries most impactful research paths to pursue, developing a detailed roadmap for the Cancer Moonshot initiative. Elsevier provides a quarter of Research4life’s 80,000+ peer- “I want to thank Elsevier for focusing on reviewed resources to researchers in drilling down and making sure we had this over 100 developing countries. blueprint. ... My dad was right – it matters what the priorities are. And so it came to full fruition tonight with what you guys did in taking this down to very usable information.” – former US Vice President Joe Biden

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Source neutral Interoperable

User control Elsevier supports the four core principles of the information system that meets the needs of researchers, managers of research institutions and funders.

Navigating change the research community’s diverse needs. And no matter how an Elsevier journal is funded, the same guarantee of high- quality, trustworthy information applies. Elsevier believes in making every part of the research lifecycle simpler, more connected and more transparent. Open science publishing options Our submission system interface puts copyright choices at researchers’ fingertips, with guidance on options compliant to Applying emerging technology to funding publication and distribution via a funding rules. authoritative information means we can sponsored article fee. In addition, Elsevier play a role in enabling scientific excellence. now publishes about 250 gold open access Sharing tools and services Our tools are designed to put users in titles. In 2018, Elsevier published over We employ technology in the service of control. They enable faster ways of working, 34,000 gold open access articles, a double- collaborating, sharing and showcasing manage complexity and free up time to digit increase from the previous year. We research outputs. SSRN, for example, is an focus on goals. And users can see how also launched 9 new subscription and 45 open-access online preprint community recommendations have been reached. full open access journals, including iScience where researchers post early-stage research We help institutions track and analyze and One Earth from Cell Press and The prior to publication in academic journals. the impact of science, supporting great Lancet’s EclinicalMedicine. Mendeley Data enables researchers to research performance. By freeing the flow make their research data publicly available of ideas, our platforms help advance the We offer a mix of open access and in an open research data repository. application of science to the most pressing subscription models to reflect the different Bepress, which joined Elsevier in 2017, questions our society faces today. ways authors around the world choose to helps academic libraries showcase and publish articles. Some prefer paying for share their institutions’ research via Empowering open science publication so readers have free access to institutional repositories. Author-pays open access, with over 1,900 of articles, while others would rather publish Elsevier’s journals, now offers the option of for free. This flexibility allows us to meet

12 Re-engineered to support open Our mission: Lead the way in access and open data All Elsevier journals are interoperable science, technology and health with institutional and subject repositories.

A growing open ecosystem Throughout Elsevier, we share the research The Elsevier Women’s Network highlights Elsevier has made a series of strategic community’s belief in what science can the talent women bring to the business acquisitions in open science services achieve. Many of our people began their and promotes their professional progress (e.g. Mendeley, SSRN, bepress and careers in science or medicine, and we through advocacy and education. Hivebench) and open metrics services work with a worldwide network of editors, (e.g. Newsflo, Plum Analytics). authors and specialists, covering hundreds Elsevier has attained Level One of the of disciplines. Collaborating closely with the EDGE gender equality certification. Partnerships community means we can respond quickly Elsevier is active in more than 50 to genuine needs faced by those in the field. Elsevier is a member of the Workplace strategic partnerships with leading And it allows us to think ahead and address Pride Foundation, with Elsevier Pride funding bodies to actively support open challenges science and medicine may face chapters around the world. Elsevier access (e.g. the Gates Foundation, NSF) in the future. management is committed to working and open data policies, and we have a environments in which LGBT+ employees 5-year open science partnership with Our global community program, RE feel empowered to influence and make a the UK research community. Cares, supports employee and corporate difference in their workplace. engagement that makes a positive impact Science advocacy on society through volunteering and giving. Interested in working at Elsevier? We support public engagement and Visit elsevier.com/careers trust for science: Sense About Science, The Green Team aims to raise awareness NLM’s Emergency Access Initiative, of our environmental impact and improve Research4Life, Access2Research, Atlas. business strategies towards a better world.

13 Employee/Country: 1-100 101-200 >200 Elsevier has 7,900 employees and serves customers in around 180 countries.

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