A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a “subscription-based access strategy,” meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.
DORA’s reaction to Clarivate’s decision to no longer fully index eLife (and, therefore, not to give it a Journal Impact Factor) seems inconsistent with both its and eLife’s public positions, and based on the mistaken belief that “disruption” is an absolute good in itself.
Analysis from Roger Schonfeld on today’s news that Silverchair is buying ScholarOne from Clarivate, a transaction that realigns infrastructure and allows each to focus on its strengths.
A look at how AI tools support transforming information access into information comprehension.
How do we define, track, and measure trust in scholarly publishing?
It’s conference season in scholarly communications. Between them, the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs have been / will be at 9 events around the world in the 6 week stretch from early April to mid May. In a series of “Smorgasbord” posts, Chefs will share some of the key themes emerging for our sector. This week: Charlie Rapple reports from EARMA, Roy Kaufman from the London Book Fair, and David Crotty from STM.
Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.
Today, Clarivate has installed Bar Veinstein as president for Academic and Government, a move that should bring renewed focus to the product portfolio, writes Roger C. Schonfeld.
Christos Petrou takes a look at the Guest Editor model for publishing and its recent impact on Hindawi and MDPI, as Clarivate has delisted some of their journals.
Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.
Today, Roger C. Schonfeld argues that Clarivate’s acquisition of ProQuest, which was completed last week, is another second-order consequence of open access.
Can Clarivate deliver on a single, normalized measurement of citation impact or did its marketing department promise too much?
Some journals are expected to benefit immensely under Clarivate’s new counting model.
Starting 2021, Journal Impact Factors will be calcuated using online publication dates, not print ones. But phased roll-out may lead to bias for some journals.