The leakage of scholarly content through a variety of mechanisms, some perfectly legitimate and others proud pirates, is the major factor driving down the value of subscriptions and enabling major library and university groups to cancel their Big Deals. ResearchGate […]
Leakage has strengthened libraries’ negotiating position with respect to content providers. The emerging syndication model syndication offers libraries the opportunity to provide dramatically improve the research experience for their users — with a number of risks as well, including […]
Last week, the University of California terminated its license with Elsevier. Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that leakage has reduced the value of the big deal — and publisher pricing power — while empowering library negotiators.
Today, a group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem. This new service shows that publishers are finally […]
[…] authors and plan to transition this pilot into an ongoing service. From the publisher perspective, article usage is up and leakage is contained. And, ResearchGate, which added a partnership with Wiley during the Springer Nature pilot, emerges as a stronger […]
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[…] a library facing the prospect of renewing its Big Deal. The value of the Big Deal has declined due to leakage. And, when a product declines in value, one should expect customers to demand price reductions. Rebundling has the effect […]
The largest scholarly publishers today are driven by one major near-term strategic concern — to reduce leakage and thereby bolster the value of the subscription bundle. But while they work belatedly to address this priority through Seamless Access (RA21), GetFTR, […]
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[…] data, commercially sensitive details, or material under ethical or contractual restrictions. Forcing authors to publish or store such logs creates leakage risks and undermines responsible data governance. Even anonymization does not always prevent reconstruction of context. That’s why the proportionate […]
[…] with them. The subscription side of content distribution has long been acquainted with trying to secure access and prevent ‘ leakage’ of content outside of the walled gardens of content hosting systems. Attempts at securing content with digital rights management […]
[…] open access content in particular titles. The value of subscriptions is further diminished by alternative copy availability, piracy, and other leakage. As hybrid journals flip to open access, they only offer Green-via-Gold. And, Green-via-Gold is already the sole option from […]
[…] because I think a lot of the damage is yet to be recognized. Some publishers are starting to take citation leakage seriously, where citations from legitimate journals to illegitimate ones can undermine research publications. And who knows what research is […]
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[…] services from security threats.” For an extended period, the publishing world has faced issues with access control and around controlling leakage of subscribed content. Publishers are working to streamline the access control process for users to make it both secure […]