Isn’t Leakage Good for Libraries?

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 the […]

Will Publishers Have Platforms?

[…] content hosting while commensurately diluting the potential brand value to the individual publisher of maintaining its own hosting. Aggregation vs. Syndication These efforts to work around the shortcomings of publisher-specific content distribution have two major alternatives, both of which are […]

Is the Value of the Big Deal in Decline?

[…] methods. Publishers may wish to dig into this landscape further and explore options. Second, publishers are already looking at the syndication model, as a strategic initiative to co-opt content leakage and turn much of it into COUNTER compliant usage that […]

Headlines 2.0

Editors still write headlines like they’re for print and people. With online, headlines shift to a new environment and have at least two more audiences.