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Does anyone know what's going on inside Elsevier? Publicly at least, they're acting like the music industry acted in the 90s. Are they doing anything internally
by matt_morgan 9y ago
Does anyone know what's going on inside Elsevier? Publicly at least, they're acting like the music industry acted in the 90s. Are they doing anything internally to make sure they stay in business in ten years, other than fighting for every crumb of business they have now? Is there anyone there seriously looking ahead?
In a lot of ways they're in a worse position than the music industry was, or than Netflix was a few years ago, since at least those guys had the content-creation side to work on. I don't know what Elsevier can do when there's no money in distribution. The editors don't add that much.
- dougmccune 9y agoElsevier is making a lot of moves to stay relevant. They're now one of the biggest open access publishers (where the revenue comes from article processing charges, not subscriptions). They've been realigning themselves as more of a data/information company than just a content company (see these products under the heading of "research intelligence": https://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/products-services https://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/products-serv...). They bought Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which is one of the largest preprint repositories in the social sciences. Before that they bought Mendeley to try to get into the researcher social network/reference management/data collection game. Say what you will about Elsevier, but they are most definitely not just sitting on their subscription content and waiting to become irrelevant.