FEATURE New content types
New platforms; new challenges
Innovation is essential for any academic or professional publisher wishing to survive in today’s fast changing information ecosystem, writes David Stuart
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n an increasingly competitive space, publishers not only need to meet the challenge of other publishing companies and open access, but also changing user expectations.
Too often users’ expectations have been poorly met, but this is changing with an increasingly wide range of information
products available on increasingly sophisticated platforms.
SAGE Publications and Alexander Street Press are two publishing companies that have been developing increasingly sophisticated new platforms, and Martha Sedgwick (executive director of product management at SAGE and Peter Ciuffetti (VP of product development at
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Alexander Street Press) shared their thoughts on the development of new platforms to meet user needs, the challenges they face, and how much further there is still to go.
New products
The web does not have the same limitations as print publications, and publishers today are increasingly offering far more than digital versions of traditional publication types. Although SAGE Publications and Alexander Street Press are two publishers with very different histories and collections they have both significantly expanded their digital offerings over the last decade.
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