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Silverchair Buys ScholarOne from Clarivate

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.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 28, 2024
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The Second Digital Transformation

The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger, Tracy Bergstrom
  • Jan 29, 2024
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When Consolidation Provides Benefits as well as Market Power

Acquisitions are always designed to benefit business owners, sometimes at the expense of customers. But , as Joe Esposito and Roger Schonfeld argue, acquisitions can provide benefits to customers and end-users as well.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Joseph Esposito
  • Sep 14, 2021
  • 14 Comments

Naiveté Scene — Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing

Once again, the term “open” requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 27, 2017
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