A new study of the behavior of scholarly researchers has been launched, aiming to map the changing nature of how readers from all over the world find academic content. The latest survey follows on from work undertaken every three years since 2005, and an upcoming report will provide an update…

It’s always a pleasant surprise to receive unsolicited acknowledgement that your product is increasingly recognized as a standard of the industry. This recent article in The Scholarly Kitchen, by Christos Petrou, founder and Chief Analyst at Scholarly Intelligence, analyzed the changing fortunes of the megajournals PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports,…

Use Case: Promoting Article Collections The Covid-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for the dissemination of scientifically sound and up-to-date information related to the disease, its treatment, and its impact on the public at large. As large annual scientific conferences face cancellation, publishers and authors are already struggling to…

At the recent SSP Annual Meeting in Chicago, TrendMD had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion entitled New Tools and Trends in Discovery Technologies. The central premise of the panel was to explore, from different stakeholder perspectives, the challenges posed by the staggering growth of scholarly content production. With…

Guest post by: Bert Carelli, Director of Partnerships at TrendMD Rapidly evolving technologies and social trends may affect the ways that readers keep up with an ever-increasing flood of scholarly information. Researchers, libraries, authors, publishers, and other stakeholders need to understand how readers find and access online journals, books, and…