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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
How important are online communities to publishers? New Research
Perhaps the biggest challenge that publishers will have to face as businesses as the digital reading revolution enters its next phase is how they can forge meaningful relationships with consumers. Historically trade publishers have been business-to-business entities which have had … 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
Top 5 Academic Publishing Trends to look out for in 2013
2012 has certainly been an eventful, some would even say turbulent, year in the unpredictable world of academic publishing. A crescendo of calls for a complete re-imagination of traditional pay-for-access models, the ‘Academic Spring’ campaign, the high profile Cost of … Continue reading
Keeping it short – Short-form academic publishing
In this recent article published on Scholarly Kitchen, regular blogger Joseph Esposito explores the case for a shorter form of scholarly publishing lying somewhere in the middle between an article and a monograph. This form, which has lain largely dormant … Continue reading
An App Happy Future for Academic Publishing?
To date, much of the discussion surrounding the future of academic publishing has focused on how publishers can repackage the idea of the journal for the post-digital world. But what if instead of paying for a subscription to a journal … 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
The Library of the Future is Mobile
After attending the recent MobileTechnology Executive briefing run by the Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) I’ve become really excited by the opportunities that developments in mobile technology are presenting to academic publishers, librarians and end users. This … Continue reading
More Social Media insight for academic publishers
Social media is a hot topic among academic publishers this year, and nowhere moreso than at SSP. Many of the sessions covering social media at last month’s conference were standing room only, as academics, publishers and technology providers shared their … Continue reading
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