Essential for publishing staff, editors, editorial boards, boards of directors, society leadership, and anyone else looking for an in-depth review of the scholarly journals market today – and insight into where it is going in the future.
Most industry trends reports are superficial at best, leaving the reader wondering why they bothered to read the report never mind paid money for it. That is why we developed this report. We are regularly asked to discuss industry trends with organizational leadership. As there was no good resource to provide organizations as a pre-read or take-away document, we decided to write one.
This comprehensive report from C&E provides our analysis of the scholarly journals landscape. Taking both a historic perspective (how did we get here?) and a forward-looking view (where are we going?), we identify and explain the most important trends and drivers shaping the market.
Plentiful visuals (36 figures and tables) translate complex data into market insights.
Key topics addressed include:
- How are research funder policies and open access changing the financial and editorial strategies of different types of publishers, and on what timeline?
- How are open access models driving industry consolidation?
- What strategies are different publishers adopting in response to recent trends and how successful have they been?
- What new business models should you be aware of?
- How is the role of preprints evolving?
- How is the focus on author experience reshaping marketing strategy?
- How is artificial intelligence impacting the market?
Simple, clear language and explanations of industry lingo allow this report to serve as both an up-to-the-moment view of current trends and a primer for bringing those new to the industry up to speed.
Your purchase also includes an executive summary slide deck that can be used to communicate industry trends and implications for publishing programs to society leadership, boards of directors, and editorial boards.
The organizational license allows everyone at your organization to access and use the report. (Note that Libraries can purchase at a special price that allows use within library administration and library staff, but not campus-wide.) It is the perfect pre-read for your next editorial board meeting or strategic retreat.
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Market Overview and Background: Setting the Stage
- The Big Deal
- Market Consolidation
- Open Access
- Definitions and Statistics
- The Evolving Policy Landscape
- Increasing Strain on the Subscription Model
- Timeline for Upcoming Changes
- Changing Business Models
- Transformative Agreements
- Multipayer Model
- Diamond OA
- Subscribe to Open
- Backflip Model
- PLOS and PeerJ: Toward an OA Subscription?
- Cooperative Models
- The Rise of Preprints and a Shift in Their Role
- Publisher Strategies in a Changing Market
- Publishing More
- Author Experience
- OA at Scale
- Publisher Strategies and Publication Volume
- Industry Commitments
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- Environmental Stewardship and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Research Integrity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Content Generation
- Workflow Enhancement
- Marketing Capabilities
- New Revenue Opportunities
- Other Trends to Watch
- Open Data
- Open Methods
- Leakage and Supercontinents
- Audience Data as an Asset
- Conclusion
Pricing
Best Value
Organizational License
Everyone in your organization can access and use the report. (Special Library pricing allows use within library administration and staff, but not campus-wide.)
$3,500 USD
Small Publisher - <$50M in annual revenues
$5,500 USD
Medium Publisher - $50M – $150M in annual revenues
$7,500 USD
Large Publisher - >$150M in annual revenues
$5,000 USD
Other - Organizations without journals
$2,500 USD
Library - Intended for use by library administration and staff (not as a resource for the whole campus)
Pricing tiers are based on the total annual revenues of your organization in its last fiscal year.
For the purposes of this report, a publisher is defined as any organization that holds copyright in or publishes or provides journals or aggregations of journals. Societies that own journals but publish with a partner, libraries that publish journals, and organizations that provide aggregations of journals should select the publisher tier that fits their total annual organizational revenue.
The report will be delivered by email within one business day of receipt of payment.
Cancellations and Returns: Purchases can be cancelled prior to delivery of the report. Returns are not accepted.
