![]() Citation andĭata-sharing software? Mendeley, purchased in 2013. Lab results? Elsevier has Hivebench, acquired in 2016. Research lifecycle, the company has positioned itself to harvest behavioral Since then, by acquisition and product launch, Elsevier has moved ![]() In other words, was to become a surveillance publisher. The “organic development of increasingly sophisticated information-basedĪnalytics and decisions tools”. Nod to the company’s “transformation” from publisher to a “technology,Ĭontent and analytics driven business.” RELX’s strategy? The “shorter, more modern name,” RELX explained, is a Two decades of acquisitions, divestitures, and product launches-including Scopus in 2004, Elsevier’s answer to ISI’s Web of Science. In 2015, the firm changed its name to RELX Group, after With Reed International, a UK paper-maker turned media conglomerate. ScienceDirect, its Web-based journal delivery platform. The same year, when the company piloted what would become Maxwell sold Pergamon to Elsevier in 1991, months before his luridĮlsevier was just getting started. Profits off the prestige signaling of Garfield’s Journal Impact Factor. Maxwell’s lead, growing at a rate of 35 titles a year by the late 1970s.īoth firms hiked their subscription prices aggressively, making huge Model was Pergamon, the postwar science-publishing ventureĮstablished by the brash Czech-born Robert Maxwell.īy 1965, around the time that Garfield’s Science Citation Index firstĪppeared, Pergamon was publishing 150 journals. The late nineteenth century, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that the firmīegan to launch and acquire journal titles at a frenzied pace. The Dutch publishing house was founded in I’ll delete the scholarly footnotes here:Ĭonsider Elsevier. After a general introduction to surveillance capitalism, Pooley turns to “surveillance publishing”.
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