US SEC’s Mandatory Climate Reporting Will Disrupt the ESG Data Market
The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved a proposed rule to require companies to report on climate-related risks. This regulation will serve as a key catalyst to accelerate the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions by companies and investors.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: March 30, 2022
Sci-Hub Continues to Pose a Challenge to Scholarly Publishing. What Can the Industry Learn from It?
New data shows how much Sci-Hub’s grip on scholarly research has tightened despite losses in the courtroom. To beat the piracy site at its own game, publishers must continue to cater to user needs and focus on the seamlessness of the research experience.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: March 29, 2022
VelocityEHS Makes a Double Acquisition to Ensure Workforce Safety
VelocityEHS, a global EHS and ESG solution provider, is acquiring two business divisions of MyAbilities, a health technology company. Risk and compliance information providers are enabling smart health solutions to ensure a safe transition back to the office amid the pandemic.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: March 28, 2022
Fastcase Upgrades as Small Law Firms Adopt New Technologies
Fresh strategies are desperately needed as outdated market assumptions, inflexible sales structures, and sledgehammer products prevent the legal solution market leaders from reaching the lucrative small law market.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: March 24, 2022
Cambridge Elevates Education’s Focus on Employability
As employers look to gain an holistic view of candidates, content developers see an opportunity to integrate employability skills into their curriculum products.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: March 23, 2022
Academia.edu Announces Plans to Launch Open Access Journals
Backed by new funding from Chinese media conglomerate Tencent, Academia.edu plans to launch 10 new open access journals. Its effort to diversify beyond its core focus as a social network borders on a predatory practice and will likely backfire.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: March 22, 2022
TransUnion Acquires Verisk Financial to Create a Full-Wallet View of Consumers
TransUnion is acquiring Verisk Financial to bolster its capabilities in monitoring consumer financial behavior. As consumers’ financial footprints become increasingly digitized, information giants are evolving their methods of assessing the financial health of consumers.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: March 21, 2022
Update – Zendesk Disturbs Its Zen as Its Momentive Deal Craters
Not only did the market reactive negatively to the announcement of the deal for SurveyMonkey’s parent, so did shareholders. The ensuing mess, just like the prolonged deal closure we originally pointed out, magnifies opportunities for both buyers and sellers of survey sample and DIY research tools.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: March 17, 2022
CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform Expands into Biopharma
Biopharma is poised to lead the growth of the pharmaceutical and chemical development market. CAS SciFindern can now act as a single data source for chemists and bioscientists.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: March 16, 2022
Legal Tech M&A Activity in 2021
Outsell’s analysis of M&A activity in the Legal & Regulatory Solutions market over the last six years reveals a changing market landscape that is exposing established providers to greater competition from various new angles.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: March 15, 2022
GovExec Company Spotlight
GovExec is rapidly evolving from a public sector publisher to a sales and marketing intelligence company serving state, local, and federal government as well as defense sector needs. An aggressive M&A strategy is driving its rapid transformation and high growth, providing lessons for all.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: March 14, 2022
Sentieo to Debut Its AI-Enabled ESG Scoring System
Sentieo has become the newest financial research desktop provider to launch its own ESG scoring system, and it is doing so with the help of machine learning. With the growing number of ESG assessment products in financial services, providers are looking toward emerging technologies to differentiate.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: March 10, 2022
Information Consumption Practices of Engineers: Standards as Part of Workflow
Standards are a key information source for the practicing engineer at most stages of product design through commercialization. User behaviour indicates areas of opportunity for standards vendors as workflows adapt to the pace of technology change and the reality of “remote engineering.”
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: March 9, 2022
German Court Issues Ruling in Highly Publicized Lawsuit Against ResearchGate
The lawsuit initially animated an industry grappling with new entrants and disruptors, but reactions to the ruling have been more muted, signaling that the landscape has changed. That said, the ruling still has important implications.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: March 8, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of Data: FAIR and its Implementation
Getting the most of data means working to make it Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). In this edition of FutureScapes, David Worlock discusses FAIR principles and implementation with Barend Mons, Scientific Director of the GO FAIR Foundation.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: March 7, 2022
Best Practices for Negotiating and Implementing Transformative Agreements
Transformative agreements are gaining popularity as an effective model to transition from subscriptions to open access. This analysis examines best practices, opportunities, and challenges with transformative agreements.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: March 3, 2022
Collins Goes Adaptive With Adapt in UK Schools
Adaptive learning solutions are coming into their own as K-12 educators in the UK look to help students catch up after two years of pandemic-driven disruption to their learning.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: March 2, 2022
APIs Gain Momentum in the Legal Research Market
The next generation of legal API feeds could shift legal research from solution providers’ feature-rich platforms to customers’ own internal analytics platforms, where they can analyze, visualize, and share legal data however they want.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: March 1, 2022
New Partnership Offers ESG Risk Data to Guide Lenders
Verisk Analytics is partnering with RiskSpan to offer mortgage providers insight into climate risk. ESG data is moving beyond the support of financial investing, corporate screening, and property and casualty insurance and into consumer lending.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: February 28, 2022
Segment View: Library Information Market
This report sizes and segments the content spending of the $31.6 billion global library market and analyses the trends driving change. It forecasts spending through 2022 and acts as a tool for information providers who target the library market and must understand its regional and vertical dynamics.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: February 24, 2022
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