愛思唯爾是一家現(xiàn)代出版企業(yè)，創(chuàng)辦于1880年。它已經(jīng)從一個(gè)致力于古典學(xué)術(shù)的小型荷蘭出版社發(fā)展成為一家國(guó)際性多媒體出版公司，向全球教育、科學(xué)技術(shù)與醫(yī)學(xué)領(lǐng)域提供20,000余種產(chǎn)品。愛思唯爾的取名源自最初的House of Elzevir，即于1580年創(chuàng)立的荷蘭家族出版社。

Elsevier is a modern publishing company founded in 1880. It has grown from a small Dutch publisher dedicated to classical scholarship to an international multimedia publishing company, supplying more than 20,000 products to the fields of education, science, technology and medicine worldwide. Elsevier got its name from the original House of Elzevir, the Dutch family publishing House founded in 1580.