News

10th January 2019

Renew, in association with ALPSP, to take its long running Online Journal Discovery and Delivery course to New York and Washington, DC in March 2019

Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger have been helping publishers and societies understand how readers discover their content for over 15 years. Now, in association with ALPSP they are taking their popular course to the US.

In a world where the discovery of content happens in a multitude of places but rarely at the point of content delivery, where library technology and authentication combine to put up perceived barriers to content, and where readers will have a vastly difference experience of finding and accessing content depending on where they live in the world, it’s not as straightforward as building a feature-rich and well-designed website.

The course will take delegates on the journey their readers often take, starting at the key discovery resources, travelling through library technology and authentication mechanisms and ending up with the delivery of an article. It will highlight the challenges the user faces along the way and give tips for making the reader journey as easy as possible.

This course offers significant insight into the user journey from discovery to delivery, for subscribed and open access content, which needs to be widely understood by all departments within the publishing business.

Information and Booking is available on the ALPSP website:

March 26th, 2019, New York, NY – Find out more

March 28th, Washington, DC – Find out more

Course Information

3rd September 2018:

Renew Publishing Consultants release results of two large scale research projects

Renew Publishing Consultants has spent a significant amount of time over the last 12 months researching two areas affecting scholarly publishing. The results of both projects are published today and have been made freely available for the community.

How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications (2018) is the latest in a series of reports spanning 13 years identifying the trends in user discovery behaviour. The latest research was carried out with the support of leading publishers and intermediaries, and attracted responses from over 10,000 people working and studying across all sectors, subject disciplines and regions.

A Landscape Review of Streaming Video (2018) is the output of a project Renew Publishing undertook through March and April 2018, interviewing 25 organizations involved in scholarly communication to report on their use of video and audio, to highlight successful case studies. Organizations were asked to discuss their challenges, successes, and how they were measuring return on investment in their use of either video or audio.

Press Release

8th February 2018:

Renew Consulting for Societies becomes official supporter of Society Street conference.

Renew Consulting for Societies is delighted to announce that it is an official supporter of Society Street, the new conference for senior leadership teams of professional societies, Royal Colleges, and not-for-profit member organisations, to be held on 26th June 2018 at RCOG, Rooms on Regent’s Park, London.

Society Street brings together a wide range of topics facing membership organisations on one day, and examines the relationships between them. The four main tracks of the conference are Finance and Taxation, Human Resources, Publishing, and Membership.

Press Release

15th January 2018:

Renew Publishing Consultants announce supporter list for “How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications, 2018”.

Renew Publishing Consultants are delighted to announce that 13 organisations have agreed to support their latest research identifying how readers across the world discover academic content. This will be the 5th large-scale research project Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger have carried out on this topic since 2004. The 2015 research focussed on journal and book content discovery, with more than 40,000 respondents, and was supported by leading academic publishers, societies, and intermediaries. The latest research will take on the very contentious issue of measuring perceptions of Sci-Hub and ResearchGate in discovery and delivery, and will also ask about how readers discover academic video content.

Supporters of the research are:

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Psychological Association
Annual Reviews
Cambridge University Press
OECD
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Royal Society of Chemistry
SAGE Publishing
The Company of Biologists
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
The JAMA Network/American Medical Association (AMA)
TrendMD
Wiley

Press Release

27th November 2017:

Tracy Gardner to present results of the Video Streaming Market Research at STM Digital Publishing Seminar on 5th December

Tracy Gardner and Violaine Iglesias will present the session on The State of Streaming Video in Professional and Scholarly Communications.

Event

15th November 2017:

Simon answering the Big Questions at the UKSG Forum in London

The UKSG Forum is fast becoming the essential ‘London-based pre-Christmas’ event in the scholarly communications calendar. Supporting UKSG’s mission ‘to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication’, the UKSG Forum offers short sessions on best practice and interesting projects. Simon will be answering “The Big Questions” during the keynote session. https://www.uksg.org/event/FORUM2017

8th November 2017:

Renew Publishing Consultants release results of Video Streaming Market Research

Renew Publishing Consultants, with the support of digital publishing experts GVPi, recently run a survey designed to find out more from publishers, scholarly societies, professional associations and higher education institutions about their video development plans. We asked them what they saw as the main challenges and barriers to delivering video content online, and what opportunities they thought streaming video offered.

The survey attracted over 200 responses from publishers, societies and higher education institutions, predominantly from North America and Europe and the results have been made freely available.

Press Release

Report

1st November 2017:

Simon Inger to present twice at Charleston Conference 2017

If you are going to the Charleston Conference don’t miss Simon talking about the future of platforms, and present the latest results from the Video Streaming survey Renew carried out with the support of GVPI. More info at https://t.co/dDRWdN9r18 and https://t.co/d9pfbXmes2

9th October 2017:

Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger invite supporters for How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications 2018

We are delighted to announce that we are about to embark on our 5^th large scale research projects identifying how readers discover academic content.

We have mapped the changing nature of how readers – from all over the world – find content since 2004. The 2015 research focussed on journal and book content discovery, with more than 40,000 respondents, and was supported by leading academic publishers, societies and intermediaries.

The latest research will take on the very contentious issue of measuring perceptions of SciHub and ResearchGate in discovery and delivery.

If you would like to get involved, and support this valuable research, do get in touch.

Press Release

2015 Discovery Research

They are always our first port of call when we need a different point of view. Like all the best consultancies, they understand the market and our business and always feel like part of the team.

Matthew CianfaraniDirector International Business Development, Mark Allen Group

Renew’s expertise and advice proved to be invaluable and allowed us to avoid many of the pitfalls this process can be fraught with. Engaging Renew ultimately saved us both time and money and I would recommend them without hesitation.

Claudia Flavell-WhileDirector of Publications, Institution of Chemical Engineers

We have always found Renew insightful, responsive and not afraid of telling you what you don’t necessarily want to hear! They have a wealth of knowledge and experience and are a pleasure to work with.

Andrew PittsManaging Director, PSI Ltd

It was hugely reassuring to have the support of SIC throughout the development and implementation phases of our new journal and book platforms. At all times Simon & Tracy provided clear, focussed and, crucially, honest advice.

Timothy WrightChief Executive & Company Secretary, Edinburgh University Press

Sam, Tracy and Simon helped us gain a high level of clarity on our requirements right at the start of the process, which was invaluable and key to the whole project running smoothly. We were very pleased with the outcomes of the project, the way they worked with us as a team and fully supported us. And we were on time and to budget throughout!

Kim MarelloDigital Development Manager, Bioscientifica

Occupying an important place in the publishing landscape, Julie and her colleagues are able to provide impartial advice to scholarly societies – advice that could prove to be invaluable.

Andrew KentAntipode Foundation

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