Pergamon Press was a United Kingdom based publishing house, founded by Robert Maxwell, which published general science books. It was purchased by academic publishing giant Elsevier in 1992. Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), British media proprietor, rose from poverty to build a great publishing empire, but was revealed after his mysterious death to have been misusing staff pension funds on a massive scale to prop up his ailing empire. ... Elseviers logo Elsevier is the worlds largest publisher of medical and scientific literature. ...
Although Pergamon told us that we were welcome to audit their books, they also told us that the operations of Pergamon Journals were recorded, for each year, in a single ledger.
PergamonPress was notified of our intention to move the Journal to a new publisher in accordance with the stipulation in the transfer document.
Despite all the difficulties we experienced in moving from PergamonPress to Raven Press, I personally believe that it was one of the best moves the Journal of Neurochemistry, the ISN and the ASN ever made.