Competition record
RELX
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RELX owns Elsevier's journals and LexisNexis legal research, plus risk-data tools sold to insurers. Universities buy journal bundles, and law firms buy Lexis against Thomson Reuters Westlaw.
Overview
RELX is based in London. Elsevier publishes journals on ScienceDirect and indexes them in Scopus, and university libraries sign multi-year big deals that bundle many titles because researchers need the specific journal, not a generic substitute.
LexisNexis is the legal research and news system law firms and agencies set beside Westlaw. A firm that has built workflows, alerts, and briefs on one system renews it because the other system is a retraining, even though both contain case law.
The risk business sells data and scoring tools into insurance underwriting. Those data sets are an input Chubb, Progressive, and their peers use to price policies, and switching data vendors means revalidating a model.
Competition footprint
Journal big deals bundle large portions of Elsevier's list for a single library price.
Lexis content and search history lock a firm in between Westlaw evaluations.
Insurance risk files are embedded in underwriting models.
Consumer & business angle
Researchers who need a specific Elsevier title depend on their library's bundle still including it.
Associates at a firm live in Lexis or in Westlaw, and the firm pays whichever one the practice has standardized on.
What to watch
- University big-deal renewals and any unbundling of Elsevier titles.
- Lexis versus Westlaw contract cycles at large law firms.
Markets
scientific journals · legal information · insurance risk data
Also known as: relx, elsevier, lexisnexis
Conduct themes
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