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Elsevier 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 charg
by dougmccune 9y ago
Elsevier 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.