[…] primary publishing business, nor does it directly provide STEM content. But in an environment increasingly characterized by open access and syndication, especially for STEM, this will matter far less. Indeed, it might even come to be a financial benefit not […]
We’re off for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Hope this week brings you some sweet relief.
[…] CEO Frank Vrancken Peeters at the APE 2021 conference. The study was conducted “in situ” and leveraged the Springer Nature syndication pilot project that posted VOR articles for access on the ResearchGate platform. As Mithu Lucraft, Director for Content Marketing […]
What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future?
[…] other services where publishers have not received “credit” for that usage has led to efforts to re-enclose that usage through syndication. Against this context, Curtis Kendrick, Dean of Libraries at Binghamton University and a key leader in SUNY’s collective licensing […]
[…] soon, but rather we’ll see an increasingly mixed economy in publishing. The rapid growth of preprints, early moves towards the syndication of content and the cancellation of big deals are all pointers to what may lie ahead, but at this […]
[…] have been tracking a number of issues around how content distribution and brand are being affected by the potential of syndication, including through the Springer Nature pilot with ResearchGate, to impact publisher platforms. In addition, we have noted that that […]
Annotation is increasingly being recognized as a valuable tool in scholarly communications, enabling increased engagement and collaboration and better metrics, and helping improve the quality of scholarly outputs. In this guest post, Heather Staines (Director of Business Development – Hypothes.is) and Alexander Naydenov (Head of Marketing and Co-Founder – Paperhive) tell us why!
A conference at the British Library provides ample evidence of the breadth of the university press sector and the absolute necessity of a clear institutional mission.
The challenges posed to record labels by Napster in the late 1990s and early 2000s resemble those posed by Sci-Hub to scholarly publishers today. But which of those resemblances are real, and which are misleading?
[…] milking what’s left of their existing model. The upshot? Instead of modern-era Faulkners, Hawthornes, Bellows, or Vonneguts doing interesting e-book syndications or mixed-media experiments with long-term publisher support, incumbent publishers are rejecting authors and manuscripts at a much higher rate […]
[…] various ‘curatorial’ products. Somehow quality words are worth nothing, whilst sound and vision command good money. How did publishers get syndication so wrong? Well the answer is advertising. Because you can put an ad against any content and when you […]
[…] professors into engaging stories, and deliver them on a multitude of publishing platforms, including the school website, print magazine, and syndication partners, and to more than 230,000 Twitter followers. Even in this lengthy post, it is impossible to relay the […]
According to a leaked document, publishing giants Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-Blackwell will merge.
[…] show that even if bloggers are in charge, the value of primary reporting can’t be zero. Ultimately, there is content syndication at some level going on here. How to keep reporters as part of the information economy when the outlets […]