Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

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Can You Really Know Your Customer If You Only See Them One Silo At A Time?

Functional silos lead to customer data silos. Can you get a full view of customer engagement without re-architecting your whole organization?

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Worth the Time? A Critical Look at the Value of Twitter for Journals

With yet another stumble from Twitter/X, Angela Cochran looks at the numbers and asks whether all the efforts journals have put into building and maintaining journal Twitter accounts have been worth it.

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Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards

A mixed bag post from us — can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern.

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Guest Post – In Defense of Endogeny

While higher rates of endogeny can help indexes identify journals being used for self-promotion, nepotism, or other unethical ends, endogeny itself should not be equated with them and can be the result of a narrow or new field of research.

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The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why?

The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 – hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows’ interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun

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Smorgasbord: Trends from Spring 2023 Meetings and Conferences (Part Two)

Read what Chefs Angela Cochran and Alice Meadows (respectively) have to say about the recent ISMPP conference and RDA 20th Plenary Meeting in today’s Smorgasbord

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Guest Post: AI and Scholarly Publishing — A (Slightly) Hopeful View

The impact of the changes artificial intelligence will cause rests on how creative humans can be at harnessing novel technologies to the greatest benefit. The challenge, then, for publishers, is to ensure they are the creative adopters leading the charge, as opposed to being trampled by better customer experiences created by other technological disruptors.

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Is the Essence of a Journal Portable?

When a journal’s entire editorial board is replaced, is it still the same journal? And if that board starts another journal on the same topic, is it a new one or a continuation of the old one? Discuss.

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Drawing Lines to Cross Them: How Publishers are Moving Beyond Established Norms

Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.

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Will New Clarivate Leadership Yield a Renewed Focus on Its Products?

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.

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