   elsevier b.v. () is an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. it is a part of the reed elsevier group. based in amsterdam, the company has operations in the united kingdom, us, mexico, brazil, spain and elsewhere. leading products include journals such as the lancet and cell, books such as gray's anatomy, the sciencedirect collection of electronic journals, the trends and current opinion series of journals, and the online citation database scopus. its free researcher collaboration tool, 2collab, launched in 2007, was discontinued in 2011. elsevier publishes 250,000 articles a year in 2,200 journals."elsevier at a glance". elsevier. its archives contain seven million publications. total yearly downloads amount to 240 million.journal publishing at elsevier. elsevier. retrieved 3 september 2011. in 2010, elsevier reported a profit margin of 36% on revenues of us$3.2 billion. elsevier's high profit margins and copyright practices have subjected it to much criticism. ==history== elsevier took its name from the dutch publishing house elzevir, which, however, had no connection with the present company. the elzevir family operated as booksellers and publishers in the netherlands. its founder, lodewijk elzevir (1542&ndash;1617), lived in leiden and established the business in 1580. elsevier was founded in 1880 and is the olde
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