29.08.2025
Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market
« In late 2023, while putting together a large-scale report on scholarly journal market trends, I was struggling to quantify how much the market had consolidated and if there were any periods that showed more rapid consolidation than others. I wrote about those efforts here in The Scholarly Kitchen, concluding that there were two main waves of market consolidation: the first aligning with the rise of The Big Deal from roughly 2000 to 2006, and the second beginning around 2018 with the announcement of Plan S. (…) »
source > scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, David Crotty, 20 août 2025
