As employers look to gain an holistic view of candidates, content developers see an opportunity to integrate employability skills into their curriculum products.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Cambridge Elevates Education’s Focus on Employability

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: March 23, 2022

Backed by new funding from Chinese media conglomerate Tencent, Academia.edu plans to launch 10 new open access journals. Its effort to diversify beyond its core focus as a social network borders on a predatory practice and will likely backfire.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Academia.edu Announces Plans to Launch Open Access Journals

Author: Julia Kostova

Date: March 22, 2022

TransUnion is acquiring Verisk Financial to bolster its capabilities in monitoring consumer financial behavior. As consumers’ financial footprints become increasingly digitized, information giants are evolving their methods of assessing the financial health of consumers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: TransUnion Acquires Verisk Financial to Create a Full-Wallet View of Consumers

Author: Will Jan

Date: March 21, 2022

Not only did the market reactive negatively to the announcement of the deal for SurveyMonkey’s parent, so did shareholders. The ensuing mess, just like the prolonged deal closure we originally pointed out, magnifies opportunities for both buyers and sellers of survey sample and DIY research tools.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Update – Zendesk Disturbs Its Zen as Its Momentive Deal Craters

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: March 17, 2022

Biopharma is poised to lead the growth of the pharmaceutical and chemical development market. CAS SciFindern can now act as a single data source for chemists and bioscientists.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform Expands into Biopharma

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: March 16, 2022

Outsell’s analysis of M&A activity in the Legal & Regulatory Solutions market over the last six years reveals a changing market landscape that is exposing established providers to greater competition from various new angles.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Legal Tech M&A Activity in 2021

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: March 15, 2022

GovExec is rapidly evolving from a public sector publisher to a sales and marketing intelligence company serving state, local, and federal government as well as defense sector needs. An aggressive M&A strategy is driving its rapid transformation and high growth, providing lessons for all.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: GovExec Company Spotlight

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: March 14, 2022

Sentieo has become the newest financial research desktop provider to launch its own ESG scoring system, and it is doing so with the help of machine learning. With the growing number of ESG assessment products in financial services, providers are looking toward emerging technologies to differentiate.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Sentieo to Debut Its AI-Enabled ESG Scoring System

Author: Will Jan

Date: March 10, 2022

Standards are a key information source for the practicing engineer at most stages of product design through commercialization. User behaviour indicates areas of opportunity for standards vendors as workflows adapt to the pace of technology change and the reality of “remote engineering.”

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Information Consumption Practices of Engineers: Standards as Part of Workflow

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: March 9, 2022

The lawsuit initially animated an industry grappling with new entrants and disruptors, but reactions to the ruling have been more muted, signaling that the landscape has changed. That said, the ruling still has important implications.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: German Court Issues Ruling in Highly Publicized Lawsuit Against ResearchGate

Author: Julia Kostova

Date: March 8, 2022

Getting the most of data means working to make it Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). In this edition of FutureScapes, David Worlock discusses FAIR principles and implementation with Barend Mons, Scientific Director of the GO FAIR Foundation.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of Data: FAIR and its Implementation

Author: David Worlock

Date: March 7, 2022

Transformative agreements are gaining popularity as an effective model to transition from subscriptions to open access. This analysis examines best practices, opportunities, and challenges with transformative agreements.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Best Practices for Negotiating and Implementing Transformative Agreements

Author: Julia Kostova

Date: March 3, 2022

Adaptive learning solutions are coming into their own as K-12 educators in the UK look to help students catch up after two years of pandemic-driven disruption to their learning.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Collins Goes Adaptive With Adapt in UK Schools

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: March 2, 2022

The next generation of legal API feeds could shift legal research from solution providers’ feature-rich platforms to customers’ own internal analytics platforms, where they can analyze, visualize, and share legal data however they want.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: APIs Gain Momentum in the Legal Research Market

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: March 1, 2022

Verisk Analytics is partnering with RiskSpan to offer mortgage providers insight into climate risk. ESG data is moving beyond the support of financial investing, corporate screening, and property and casualty insurance and into consumer lending.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: New Partnership Offers ESG Risk Data to Guide Lenders

Author: Will Jan

Date: February 28, 2022

This report sizes and segments the content spending of the $31.6 billion global library market and analyses the trends driving change. It forecasts spending through 2022 and acts as a tool for information providers who target the library market and must understand its regional and vertical dynamics.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Library Information Market

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: February 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the mainstream use of video in research. Opportunities abound for providers looking to leverage multimedia to grow their readership, impact, and revenues.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Adoption of Video in Scholarly Communications Accelerates

Author: Julia Kostova

Date: February 23, 2022

In an increasingly digital-first society, the need for better governance of the internet is glaringly obvious. The race is on to determine which ideals and regulatory systems will become the standard that the rest of the world eventually follows.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: EU Proposes New Bill of Rights for the Digital World

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: February 22, 2022

Remote learning enforced by the pandemic led to a boom in the use of digital tools for teaching and learning. Following behind this, and aligned to the rise of alternative credentials, demand for new formats of digital assessment is also on the rise.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Post-COVID, Pressure Mounts to Rethink Assessments

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: February 21, 2022

As the transformation of professional services extends into the patent space, customers are leading the charge in demanding more automation to replace hugely expensive manual search services. Patent research solution providers need to listen to their customers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Patent Research Solutions Survey 2022: Automation Opportunities

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: February 17, 2022