Some of the major players include IHS (NYSE:IHS), Reed Elsevier Group and Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq:MDRX).
Just a couple of years ago, Reed Elsevier was being held up as a classic failure.
Elsevier's enviable margins, Dr Fowler says, are simply a consequence of the firm's efficient operation.
So far, says Youngsuk Chi of Elsevier, publishers have behaved a bit like hunter-gatherers of research.
The result stands out from similar analyses produced by Elsevier in biology and medicine and in clean energy.
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Davis is dismissive, citing Reed Elsevier's economies of scale, barriers to entry and its attentiveness to customers' needs.
Barring a few occasional pullbacks, shares of Reed Elsevier have been trending upward since the beginning of June.
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That data and the charts below were provided by SciVal analytics, a division of the scientific published Elsevier, for Forbes.
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The respected medical journal The Lancet last week criticised its own publisher, Reed Elsevier, for being the owner of Spearhead Exhibitions.
Davis discovered that beneath Reed Elsevier's warring senior management stood high-quality publishing assets--what they needed was more urgency on the marketing side.
V. ( NYSE: ENL) which is down about 1% today, and Reed Elsevier Plc ( NYSE: RUK) trading lower by about 0.8%.
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The US Senate has been hearing testimony from executives at LexisNexis, a database and information company owned by publishing giant Reed Elsevier.
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Outperforming them both is the London-based publishing firm called Reed Elsevier .
When Lexis Nexis revealed the massive loss of personal data shares in its parent company, Reed Elsevier, dropped in value by only one per cent.
The publisher was created in 1992 when Britain's Reed, a trade book and magazine publisher, merged with the Netherlands' Elsevier, a science publisher.
But now that Reed Elsevier has been allowed to consolidate its control in America, the grip of the publishers looks firmer than ever.
Another interesting enterprise user was medical journal publisher, Elsevier, which was candid about the problems its had pursuing its aggressive app marketing strategy.
In an editorial, The Lancet urged Reed Elsevier to sever all links with the arms trade, claiming they were incompatible with the journal's values.
Earlier this year Elsevier opened some of its article databases to software developers, who have begun to build apps on top of their content.
MIDEM, part of Reed Elsevier, those attending must pay for four nights in a hotel, though the real business gets done in two days.
Another, less-recognized success in an age when information would supposedly be free is Reed Elsevier, the home to specialized legal, medical, scientific and news coverage.
And possibly prodded by Apple, but Elsevier is also thinking of creating new apps centered around specific topics that would aggregate content from different journals.
Reed Elsevier is an education publisher and the owner of LexisNexis.
Britain's Office of Fair Trading calculates that Reed Elsevier's price increases since 1999 compounded at a 22% rate, versus 8% for the U.S. consumer price index.
Reed Elsevier has fat margins and high prices in a business based on information--a commodity, and one that is cheaper than ever in the internet era.
In 2006, for example, the entire editorial board of Topology, a mathematics journal published by Elsevier, resigned, citing similar worries about high prices choking off access.
DolphinSearch, distributed by Reed Elsevier and now in use in the Enron case, is a litigation tool that uses artificial intelligence to analyze language and retrieve hard-to-find documents.
The brain of multinational Reed Elsevier is in Dayton, Ohio.
Outperforming them both is Reed Elsevier, the London-based publishing company.
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