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Mendeley, Elsevier and the importance of content discovery to academic publishers
Back in January rumours started emerging that Elsevier was eyeing the London-based academic publishing start-up Mendeley as a possible acquisition target. This week the two companies signed a deal whereby Mendeley becomes part of Elsevier for a sum between $69 … Continue reading
What does the journal article of the future look like?
Last week we blogged about how publishers are beginning to re-engineer the textbook. In this blog we looked at how these publishers are using developments in publishing technology to turn the process of learning something from a book into a … Continue reading
How well do you know your readers?—Impact of information consumption habits on product development choices
Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner recently released their report: “How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals”, the output of an extensive survey of 19,000 journal readers. This report updates their research from 2005 and 2008 and digs into user behaviour … Continue reading
The Future of Publishing at the Executive Exchange
Last week, Publishing Technology hosted its annual Executive Exchange customer event in New York, where 20 publishers, industry consultants, press representatives and Publishing Technology executives gathered together to interact, network and exchange information on ways to “move your content forward … Continue reading
Will Blog for Tenure – The Importance of Blogging to the Scholarly Record
We all know that blogs are increasingly important to academic journals, as we recently explored how web-savvy publishers were using social media as a means of attracting and engaging new readers. But how important is blogging to academic researchers themselves? … Continue reading
Why Publishers should embrace the B2B2C Marketplace
When the discovery of books migrates from physical browsing to web recommendations to social networks, as Facebook reader app Riffle is pioneering in the model of Pinterest or Spotify, an interesting change occurs in the publishing information supply chain. Publishers … Continue reading
The future of content delivery in Publishing
A minute is a long time on the internet – Google processes approximately two million searches and around 571 websites are launched. It is estimated that in 2011 there were around 555 million websites, more than doubling in size from … Continue reading
ALPSP Usage Generation Seminar
Usage generation is one of the main focuses of many publishers to increase the value of their brands and ensure renewal of subscriptions. Looking at innovative ways to do this is key to generation of a continuing upward trend. ALPSP (the … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 30 March 2012
This week on the Semantic Web Barak Obama backs “big data”, Wiki gets wiser and Kevin Lee delves deeper into Google’s semantic transformation. We also report on the launch of the Semantic University which aims to be the most accessible and complete place … Continue reading
Reinventing the article – making a case for the ‘research object’
Over at Derivadow.com, Tom Scott offers some insights into some of the possible directions for journal sites that he’s considering at Nature. Continue reading
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