Will we see a new era of #bigdeals for #ebooks ? | Impact of Social Sciences
Proquest aka Clarivate :
- Plus de vente de livres imprimés
- Plus de vente titre-à-titre d'ebooks
- Plus d'acquisition pérenne
- Tarification de bouquets à l'ETP
- Plus de catalogue mais une recommandation par #ArtificialIntelligence
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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/21/as-proquest-exits-the-print-book-market-will-we-see-a-new-era-of-big-deals-for-ebooks/
As ProQuest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks?

ProQuest recently announced that it will be changing its business model to move away from print textbooks and monographs, solely to ebooks via a subscription-based model similar to a “Big Deal”. Ke…

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Bref :
- Plus de bibliothèques
- Un système Netflix
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Ciara McCaffrey (@ciaramccaffrey.bsky.social)

Anyone with a Netflix subscription can see why Proquest’s new model will be unacceptable to libraries & users. Disappearing titles, content you don’t actually want, annual fee increases & if you can’t pay you lose everything. Libraries have purchasing power & should collectively reject this model. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Library Database Providers Clash Over Subscription Models

Global information services provider Clarivate, which owns data and analytics resource ProQuest, announced it will “phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print, and digital books for libraries” throughout 2025.

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