Question: Who owns Scopus, a bibliographic database, which abstracted and indexed the International Journal of Private Law?

Index Medicus (IM) is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles.  From 1879 to 2004, "Index Medicus" was a comprehensive bibliographic index of such articles in the form of a print index or (in later years) its onscreen equivalent.  It was begun by John Shaw Billings, head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army.  This library later evolved into the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).  In the 1960s, the NLM began computerizing the indexing work by creating MEDLARS, a bibliographic database, which became MEDLINE.  "Index Medicus" thus became the print presentation of the MEDLINE database's content, which users accessed usually by visiting a library which subscribed to "Index Medicus" (for example, a university scientist at the university library).  It continued in this role through the 1980s and 1990s, while various electronic presentations of MEDLINE's content also evolved, first with proprietary online services (accessed mostly at libraries) and later with CD-ROMs, then with Entrez and PubMed.  As users gradually migrated from print to online use, "Index Medicus" print subscriptions dwindled.  During the 1990s, the dissemination of home internet connections, the launch of the Web and web browsers, and the launch of PubMed greatly accelerated the shift of online access to MEDLINE from something one did at the library to something one did anywhere.  This dissemination, along with the superior usability of search compared with use of a print index in serving the user's purpose (which is to distill relevant subsets of information from a vast superset), caused the use of MEDLINE's print output, "Index Medicus", to drop precipitously.  In 2004, print publication ceased.  Today, "Index Medicus" and "Abridged Index Medicus" still exist conceptually as content curation services that curate MEDLINE content into search subsets or database views (in other words, subsets of MEDLINE records from some journals but not others).  This filters search results with a view toward excluding poor-quality articles (such as by excluding junk journals), which is often helpful depending on the needs of the user. <SEP>  It is intended to cover the legal issues facing individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners on an international scale.  The editor-in-chief is Sylvia Kierkegaard. The International Journal of Private Law is a quarterly peer-reviewed law journal covering all aspects of private law, including audio-visual, media, communication, and space law.  Occasionally, the journal publishes special issues on important topics in private law.  The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus. <SEP>  It covers nearly 22,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities). Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles.  It is owned by Elsevier and is available online by subscription.  Searches in Scopus also incorporate searches of patent databases. <SEP> Ars Disputandi (Latin: the art of debate) was an online peer-reviewed academic journal of the philosophy of religion that was established in 2001 and published by Utrecht University's Igitur Publishing.  It is abstracted and indexed in the ATLA Religion Database.  In 2013 it was incorporated into the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, which was previously known as Bijdragen: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology.