ScholarNext works with clients on a broad variety of issues, including understanding and developing Web 2.0 functionality, strategic planning, business development, management consulting, and policy analysis. Engagements may be short-term, retainer-based, or "brainiac-on-demand".
Representative activities include the following:
- Development of a Web 2.0 strategy for a high-impact publisher
- Creation of a market-entry strategy for a Fortune 50 company developing a higher education service
- Review and critique of a strategic master plan for an ARL-member library
- Development and execution of a journal acquisitions strategy for a major non-profit publisher
- Creation of a business development plan for a high-tech startup seeking to enter the academic space
- Review of technical strategy and feature set for a major information provider
- Presentation of a workshop series reviewing and previewing trends in scholarly communications at multiple ARL-member libraries
- Construction of a market demographic survey for an established journal publisher
- Refinement of a service plan for one of the largest academic libraries systems in the world
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