爱思唯尔是一家现代出版企业，创办于1880年。它已经从一个致力于古典学术的小型荷兰出版社发展成为一家国际性多媒体出版公司，向全球教育、科学技术与医学领域提供20,000余种产品。爱思唯尔的取名源自最初的House of Elzevir，即于1580年创立的荷兰家族出版社。
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.