Jun 10, 2025
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
"In a rather seismic announcement, Clarivate has announced the phase-out of perpetual access purchases for print, eBooks and digital collections by the end of 2025. Described as a supposedly transformative “subscription-based strategy”, this approach is explained as “following changes in demand from libraries” and posed to support libraries in their mission. This is to be achieved by removing the option for libraries to own content (as far as one can own licensed digital materials) and moving to a subscription model with an AI research assistant."
