Elsevier

This company's Gray's Anatomy doesn't include any steamy plotlines. Elsevier, a unit of Reed Elsevier Group plc, publishes medical, scientific, and technical journals and books through two divisions. Its Health Sciences division publishes some 1,700 book titles and 700 journals annually, while the Science and Technology division publishes more than 700 books and about 200,000 research articles through nearly 1,200 journals. Much of Elsevier's content is accessed via its ScienceDirect electronic database. Other major brands include ""Cell"", a journal in cell biology, and ""The Lancet"", a leading medical journal. The company was founded in 1880 and has operations in about a dozen countries.