Saunders is an American

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based in the United States. It is currently an

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Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...

. Formerly independent, the W. B. Saunders company was acquired by

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in 1968, who added it to their publishing division

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. When CBS left the publishing field in 1986, it sold the academic publishing units to

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. Harcourt was acquired by

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in 2001."Reed Elsevier Timeline"
.

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. Retrieved May 2, 2015. W. B. Saunders published the Kinsey Reports and

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. Elsevier still sells the latter under the Saunders imprint.

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