Roger C. Schonfeld

1 month ago | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Roger C. Schonfeld

Scholarly monographs and other published books are among the most important resources for the humanities and adjacent fields. Unlike scholarly journals, which have become almost entirely digital-only, books have experienced a gradual, even extended, transition from print to digital distribution and demand may yet remain hybrid for some time.

2 months ago | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Roger C. Schonfeld

Last year, my colleagues Tracy Bergstrom and Oya Y. Rieger and I wrote in an Ithaka S+R report about as part of digital publishing infrastructure.

Oct 28, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Roger C. Schonfeld

Today’s news that Silverchair is buying ScholarOne from Clarivate shows that deal-making is alive and well in the scholarly publishing infrastructure sector. Late last week, I was able to speak with Will Schweitzer of Silverchair, as well as Bar Veinstein, Oren Beit-Arie, and Amy Bourke-Waite of Clarivate. In this transaction, Clarivate sheds an asset in a segment that is too small and messy for it, providing a golden opportunity for Silverchair to scale up.

Oct 15, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Roger C. Schonfeld

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs (Large Language Models). These deals illuminate how major publishers are grappling with their strategy amid uncertainty, but thus far they have been unavailable to smaller and medium size publishers. To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, my colleagues Maya Dayan and Dylan Ruediger and I are launching a tracker of these licensing deals.

Sep 30, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Roger C. Schonfeld

Several weeks ago, the Internet Archive lost its appeal of the lawsuit brought by a group of publishers opposed to its controlled digital lending programs. Controlled digital lending (CDL) was developed as a concept within the library community and promoted by a group of lawyer librarians and policy advocates. It has been embraced and supported by mainstream entities within the community such as Boston Libraries Consortium, HathiTrust, IMLS, the Mellon Foundation, and NISO.