Precursor to Atavism or Evolution? or Accelerating Competition in the Interest of Mutual Aid Eric Swenson Director, Product Management | Elsevier | Scopus [email protected] | @swenscopian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swensonia/ blog.scopus.com A Webinar for NISO
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Precursor to Atavism or Evolution? orAccelerating Competition in the Interest of Mutual Aid
digital multi- media & startups music “big digital media” consulting Research Products SCOPUS
“big media”|
scholarly publishing|
R&D|
design agencies|
inventors|
journalists
skinny+ hair not skinny+ no hair
Scirus|
SciTopics|
Quosa|
SciVerse Hub
design & journalism
Web 1.0 & 2.0 era|
magazines|
books|
newspapers|
cable|
radio|
business media
“Within the communications industry, there are only three kinds of businesses that have to do with
the dissemination of information: businesses of transmission,
storage and understanding.”
Richard Saul WurmanInformation Anxiety
Today, Scientists and researchers findthemselves in a moment of acutehistorical disruption—confronted as they are by unprecedented political, technological, economic, and professional pressures. The weight of these formidable challenges threatens the ‘Scientific Project’ itself.
Relevance
Science Denial
Politicization of Science
It is estimated that upwards of 60 percent of the +$2 trillion invested annually on science research, iswasted because it is poorly conducted, poorly recorded, or duplicative. Diminishing public funds—and increasing global competition for them—are shrinking the pool of active researchers and projects. A new and aggressive insistence on demonstrable ROI, weighs on researchers and research institutions—while funding from private sources casts shadows over scientific objectivity.
Issue: Anxiety
All the while, scientists, researchers and scholars are facing new challenges relative to their personal safety, their privacy, funding for research and access to research outcomes (articles; raw data; protocols; software). Thus, information service providers, sensing opportunity, are looking for new ways in which to meet market needs, evolve their business models and survive these changesthemselves.
We are all connected.
Impact: Anxiety Remediation
Death Spirals and Last Gasps?In 2010, Valerie Tucci asked “Are A&I Services in a Death Spiral”? This was a good and fair question (IMHO). But now….
The answer is: noInstead…We evolved…There’s always someone waiting in the wings…So we can’t get cocky. Change is inevitable.
Similar questions have been asked about publishers and information service providers. Same answers. We evolve.
When is a feature a product and a product a business? When is a publisher not a publisher?
Good questions.
It’s time to move beyond our conventional lexicon. Publishers have been more than “just publishers” for a long time. We are media companies; information services providers; technology companies; invention factories…. Business models extend beyond the library and research office and to the lab and the field…and beyond….