M&A landscape for platforms, services and tools | Researcher to Reader conference – 23 February 2022 | UK

"Panel: Mergers & Acquisitions / Digital Strategy and Consolidation / The M&A landscape for platforms, services and tools – and what comes next...

Consolidation is an expected feature of a developing digital platforms sector, as providers establish coherent user workflows, aggregate data sources to build scale for analytics and buy out competitors. We have seen all of these dynamics in the scholarly ecosystem in recent years, both by born-digital companies as well as primary publishers expanding into platforms and analytics. Consolidation mostly takes the form of acquisitions, but we have also seen investment portfolio models, as well as several notable strategic partnerships. This panel features executives and strategists who have played major roles in digital platform consolidation in recent years....

speakers:

• Roger Schonfeld (moderator)– Director, Libraries & Scholarly Communication at Ithaka S+R
• Andrew Preston – Co-founder at Cassyni; former co-founder at Publons 
• Martha Sedgwick – VP, Product Innovation at SAGE Publishing  
• Todd Toler  – VP Product Strategy and Partnerships at WileyS+R..."

"...The 2022 Conference, on 22-23 February, is planned to be a hybrid event, delivering an interactive and collaborative experience for both online participants and those who are able to come to the London venue. The hybrid 2022 Conference programme includes a variety of session formats, intended to give each topic an appropriate expression, and to maximise interaction amongst all the participants. There will be Workshops, Panels, a Debate, Presentations, Lightning Talks and Networking.  Topics to be covered include: Early Career Researchers, OA Standards, Open Data, Disability Within Publishing, Open Books, Transformative Agreements, Business Models, The Hybrid Workplace, APC-free Open Access, Preprint Peer Review, Mergers, Acquisitions and Consolidation, Research Data Discoverability and Publishers and Libraries as Intermediaries...."

"...The Researcher to Reader Conference aims to be the premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly content supply chain – bringing knowledge from the Researcher to the Reader. The Conference Programme covers key topics in the dissemination of scholarly content, with a scope that ranges from the creation of content by researchers to the point when the readers access the content, and beyond into archiving and preservation. This supply chain involves many ‘intermediaries’ including not just subscription agents and distributors, but also publishers, librarians and technology providers...."

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