Wiley Acquires Hindawi in a Bid to Lead the Open Access Marketplace
Open access publishing is getting more competitive as it moves closer to the mainstream. With this move, Wiley demonstrates how to grow through acquisition, boosting market share fast while keeping a keen eye on margins.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: January 27, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices – Event Benchmarks
Virtual event experiences provide a much wider array of metrics than their in-person counterparts. Understanding how to interpret that data and create new benchmarks to measure success is critical. Here are some key paths to follow when thinking about benchmarks for virtual events this year.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 26, 2021
Fastcase-Casemaker Merger Creates Stronger Alternative Legal Research Provider
The combined company will serve around two-thirds of all US attorneys, providing the necessary scale to grow the business and undercut the big four legal research providers.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 25, 2021
Remote Learning Powered an EdTech Investment Boom in 2020 – Will It Continue in 2021?
The forced move to remote learning in 2020 drove growth for several categories of EdTech providers. The question now is the extent to which they can hang onto these new users or whether they will face declines once the demands of remote learning recede.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: January 21, 2021
Insurance – A New Revenue Opportunity for ESG Data Providers
Willis Towers Watson partners with Polecat Intelligence to account for ESG practices in corporate reputation risk assessments. With ESG data existing largely in an unstructured format, the insurance sector is helping to drive forward unstructured data analytics for the ESG solution market.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: January 20, 2021
OA Switchboard Is Ready to Go Live, Addressing an Acute Need in Scholarly Communications
The OA Switchboard strives to remove technical barriers on the path to OA adoption. Its mission is to smooth out communications among market players, one connection at a time.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: January 19, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices – Shifting Team Structures and Addressing Skill Gaps
Understanding how companies changed the organizational structures of their events, marketing, and sales teams in 2020, and what skillset gaps they hope to fill this year, will help others plot the road ahead for events in 2021.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 18, 2021
Subscription Platforms: Metrics and Management
Digital platforms generate vast amounts of data about users and their behaviour, but which performance metrics actually matter when managing a subscription business? What are the best practices to boost the all-important renewal rate?
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Author: Simon Alterman
Date: January 14, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices – What’s Impacting the Return to In-Person and the Decisions to Make
Understanding vaccine deployments, geographic differences in health and safety regulations, the mindsets of attendees, and the budgets of sponsors and exhibitors will help event organizations better prepare for what unfolds in 2021 and 2022.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 13, 2021
What the UK-EU Brexit Deal Means for Our Industry
The Brexit negotiations saga has finally concluded as the UK and the EU completed a last-minute agreement on Christmas Eve. We take a comprehensive look at the implications for the data, information, and analytics industry in various key areas.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 12, 2021
New EU Digital Service Rules Take Aim at Big Tech
Big tech firms face new scrutiny of their content and anti-competitive practices under new rules recently announced by the European Commission.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 11, 2021
Euromoney Acquires WealthEngine to Provide Multidimensional Assessment of Financial Clients
Euromoney is acquiring WealthEngine to let its users gain a holistic perspective on financial clients’ financial behavior. Background assessments now involve not just how a client transacts professionally but also how the individual lives life.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: January 8, 2021
Best Practices for Standards Publishers: Diversifying to Spread Risk and Cater to End-User Needs
The strategic focus for standards publishers is shifting from producing and distributing content to delivering value-added services based on content. This is driving the next stage of the standards market evolution, from a publishing model to a services model, while aligning with broader STM trends.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: January 7, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices: Attendee Engagement, Networking, and Matchmaking
Virtual events don’t need to have substandard attendee engagement and networking experiences compared to preceding in-person equivalents. Here are some critical practices to follow when thinking through facilitating audience engagement in the shift from physical to virtual events.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 6, 2021
2020 Events and What They Mean for 2021
A year that started out looking pretty normal ended as anything but. We look back on some key events of 2020 and trends to keep top of mind as we head into 2021.
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Author: Anthea Stratigos
Date: January 5, 2021
Zovio: A New Breed of EdTech Services Provider Challenges Traditional OPM Firms
Zovio has sold Ashford University to University of Arizona Global Campus, cementing its move away from being a direct provider of online education to a supplier of EdTech services and solutions supporting the wider US higher education market.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: December 23, 2020
Silverchair Composer Takes Aim at the Monetization of Semi-Structured Content
Three-fifths of publishers do not leverage semi-structured content. Silverchair’s Composer will facilitate its use — if adoption is straightforward for publishers.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: December 22, 2020
ROSS Intelligence Blames Thomson Reuters Lawsuit for Shutdown
An innovative legal research startup is blaming a Thomson Reuters copyright infringement lawsuit for its demise, but its high valuation and burn rate did not help.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 21, 2020
Wolters Kluwer Drives Forth Opportunities in Consumer Digital Experience
Wolters Kluwer acquires eOriginal to enable digital lending transformation for banks. Online lending has garnered new traction during the pandemic, and with e-lending becoming part of the new norm, consumer information providers could see new channels for their data.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: December 18, 2020
The Bottom Falls Out of the Legal Practice Management Market
The race to the bottom of the market creates a hidden commoditization current that can pull down unprepared providers when someone eventually figures out how to offer the product for free.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 17, 2020
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