Contents
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From the 2020 UPDATE report —
Update to The Landscape Analysis
The uncertainty surrounding COVID-19’s impact on research funding may well affect open access publishing specifically.
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Impact of Budget Cuts on the Big Deal & Open Initiatives
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Budgetary Impact
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Appendix--The performance of key companies in the past 12 months
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Academic Libraries and Their Home Institutions
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The Impact of 2020 on the Landscape
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Emerging Challenges: The Expansion of “Inclusive Access” Courseware
The increasing number of academic institutions that have adopted IA programs should also adopt policies that ensure student awareness and choice. The best option is to make programs “opt-in,” so that students are charged only with their consent.
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Emerging Challenges: Continued Consolidation of the Publishing Industry
A steady stream of consolidations continued apace, with academic publishing vendors announcing several significant deals.
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Emerging Challenges: Rising Privacy and Surveillance Concerns
The rise in commercial publishers usage of tracking software in services sold to academic libraries which allows them to collect and sell data to third parties, as well as the risks and inequities of online exam proctoring tools, require attention of the academic community.
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Emerging Challenges: Demand for Faster Scientific Communication Channels
The large number of preprints submitted in 2020 illustrates a sea change in the communication practices of the research community when faced with the urgency of responding to a major humanitarian health crisis.
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Emerging Challenges: Impact of the Pandemic on Inequities
The pandemic was like no other recent economic crisis in many ways, including in how it reverberated across the student population. The impact on underrepresented minority students in terms of enrollment, mental health, and graduation rates has disproportionately affected students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Continuing Challenges: The "Bigger Deal"
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Continuing Challenges: Communal Distribution
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Courseware
Can digital revenues return the courseware business to growth or will they be insufficient to compensate the accelerated decline of print revenues?
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Scholarly Journals
The scholarly journals business is still on a path to raising its profitability, but pricing pressures will intensify and we see substantial stagnation of subscription revenues.
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Update to The Landscape Analysis
The uncertainty surrounding COVID-19’s impact on research funding may well affect open access publishing specifically.
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In pursuit of open science open access is not enough
The healthy functioning of the academic community, including fair terms and conditions from commercial partners, requires that the global marketplace for data analytics and knowledge infrastructure be kept open to real competition.
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Education Companies
The Products
Anecdotal evidence suggests that these systems built and maintained by publishers capture massive amounts of data about student and faculty behavior that go beyond what is necessary for accomplishing their core objectives (i.e. improving student outcomes). Institutions, faculty and students should think about the accumulation and use of data collected and retained by schools and commercial vendors.
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Education Companies
Background
The continued decline of the higher education courseware business in the U.S. is driven by the interplay of three factors; student enrollment, pricing, and participation rates.
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Research Companies
The Products
Compiling a map of all the products and services that the three leading research data analytics vendors (Clarivate, Digital Science, Elsevier) market outside libraries is inherently a best effort exercise.
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The Academic Publishing Industry In 2018
Elsevier, Pearson, and Cengage in particular are transforming themselves into data analytics companies built atop their content, effectively adding ways to monetize it.
