It operates in four segments: Elsevier, LexisNexis, Harcourt Education, and Reed Business.
Elsevier segment supplies scientific and technical information through journals and books in print and electronic media to libraries, scientists, and professionals serving various research fields, including the life sciences, social sciences, materials, engineering, chemistry, physics, economics, mathematics, earth sciences, computer sciences, management, and psychology.
It also operates an international network of nursing, health professions and medical publishing, and communications businesses.
LexisNexis segment provides legal, tax, regulatory, and business information to professional, business, and government customers.
It develops, markets, and sells information products and services in electronic and print formats.
Harcourt Education segment provides print and multimedia teaching, and assessment materials principally for kindergarten to 12th grade students in the U.
S.; and educational content to students and teachers principally in the U.
K., Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa.
Reed Business segment publishes business information with approximately 90 trade magazines.
Amongst the titles are broadcasting and cable, multichannel news, publishers weekly, design news, and interior design.
It also publishes product tabloids, which provide information primarily on new products to managers and professionals in the industrial, processing, medical, scientific, and technology fields.
In addition, this segment, organizes trade exhibitions and conferences internationally.
These events are concentrated primarily in the communications; manufacturing; aerospace/defense; leisure; electronics; food and hospitality; travel; sports and recreation; entertainment; healthcare and pharmaceuticals; and retail industries.
Reed Elsevier is based in London.
