Abstract
In today's global market, it's more important than ever to understand the
dynamics of STM publishing. Rely on Simba's Global STM Publishing
2010-2011 to build your growth plan for this year and beyond.
This report provides an overview and financial outlook for the global
scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing markets based on specific
research and analysis of the leading competitors' performance through 2010.
Simba has used the information it gathered through primary and secondary
research to estimate company, market and individual delivery channel
performance for 2011. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger
study of the overall market for professional publishing.
The overall market and each market segment is divided into six content
delivery channels: books, journals, directories, online services (including
abstracting and indexing), newsletters/looseleafs and other, a category that
includes audio, video and CD-ROM information.
Scientific and technical publishing and medical publishing are covered in
separate chapters within Global STM Publishing 2010-2011, which include:
- Simba's exclusive analysis of market size and structure
- Perspective on which STM products and services customers want most
- Revenue and market share rankings of leading publishers
- Detailed profiles of 20 leading STM publishers worldwide
- Simba's exclusive projections for market growth and much more
Whether your focus is books, journals, online content or newsletters, you can
trust Global STM Publishing 2010-2011 to provide the inside intelligence you
need to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the industry,
and size up the competition in the dynamic markets for STM content worldwide.
Examples of some of the trends covered include:
- The demand for full-text resources
- The transition of e-publishing
- Library cost pressures
- The use of social networking in STM fields
- The outlook for pharmaceutical advertising
- Impact of new information technology initiatives in health care
Global STM Publishing 2010-2011 is an essential tool for publishing
executives, M&A advisors, market analysts, and industry consultants who need
to understand the business strategies driving the professional publishing
industry.
Simba's Professional Publishing market figures are global in scope. It's a
global market. If you're competing in one or all of these segments, the
competition does not conform to lines on a map. This report, and the others in
the series, is produced to help executives make decisions in this environment.
Simba has a knowledge base from almost 20 years worth of perspective on these
markets. A static industry, it's one that's affected by rapid changes in
technology, the economy, mergers, partnerships, public policy and library
budgets, and requires daily attention to understand the trends and project the
market's direction. As the bedrock of its research collection, you can count
on this attention to be paid by Simba Information's team of analysts who set
the industry standard on market intelligence for professional publishing.
Additional Information
Stamford, CT - January 6, 2012 - Amid budgetary pressures and a slow
economic recovery, the combined markets for science, technical and medical
(STM) publishing grew 3.4% to $21.1 billion in 2011. According to a recent
report from media and publishing forecast firm Simba Information, journals are
the leading delivery medium, but online services posted the fastest growth.
The market is split evenly between the medical publishing segment and the
scientific and technical publishing segment, with the latter posting a faster
growth rate in 2011. Each segment is driven by a need for professionals to
stay on top of the latest advances. However, a range of trends, including
contracting library budgets against rising journal prices and a decline in
pharmaceutical advertising, have deterred growth.
"The growth trends for the science and technical segment are found in e-book
production and increased output from emerging foreign markets, notably India
which is expected to be on par with most G8 nations by 2017," said Dan
Strempel, author of the report. "Medical publishing is pushing mobile content
delivery, with notable products Doximity and Sharecare."
In the scientific and technical segment, journals lead the delivery medium
with nearly 42% of the market, while online services (electronic products that
link content with other types of data, software and solutions) came in second,
but posted the fastest growth at 6.4% in 2011. The delivery medium ranking for
medical publishing mirrors its scientific and technical counterpart, with the
exception of online services which is the fourth leading medium.
"Since researchers, scientists and medical professionals prefer online
delivery, journals have been able to remain the leader, as they are easily
adapted for online publication," said Strempel. "Online services centered
around workflow solutions, have been a major focus of publishers' product
development and growth strategies."
The report, Global STM Publishing 2010-2011, provides detailed market
information for scientific, technical and medical publishing, segmented by
delivery medium: journals, books, online services, newsletters/looseleafs,
directories, and other (audio, video and CD-ROM). It analyzes trends impacting
the industry, including library cost pressures, the use of social networking,
the outlook for pharmaceutical advertising and more. The report includes 20
detailed profiles of the leading STM publishers, including Reed Elsevier,
Wolters Kluwer, Springer Science+Business Media, Pearson, Epocrates, Hearst
and others.
Table of Contents
Methodology
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Scientific and Technical Publishing
- Introduction
- Market Size
- Journals
- Online Services
- Books
- Newsletters/Looseleafs/Directories/
- Other
- Leading Scientific/Technical Publishers
- Reed Elsevier
- Thomson Reuters
- John Wiley & Sons
- Springer Science+Business Media
- American Chemical Society
- IHS
- Holtzbrinck
- Pearson
- Informa
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Current Trends in Scientific/Technical Publishing
- Library Budgets Shrink as Journal Prices Continue to Rise
- E-Book Production Spikes for Most Publishers
- Foreign Markets Emerge
- Key Product Launches
- New Social Networking Sites Launched
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Table 1.1: Global Scientific & Technical Publishing Markets by Medium,
2009-2011P
- Table 1.2: Global Scientific & Technical Publishing, Media Market Share,
2010
- Table 1.3: Leading Scientific & Technical Publishers, 2009-2011P
- Table 1.4: Median Expenditures, Association of Research Libraries,
1989-2009
- Table 1.5: Key Merger & Acquisition Activity in Scientific and Technical
Publishing, January 2010 - Decmeber 2010
- Table 1.6: Key Merger & Acquisition Activity in Scientific and Technical
Publishing, January 2011 - Decmeber 2011
Chapter 2: Medical Publishing
- Introduction
- Market Size
- Journals
- Books
- Other
- Online Services
- Newsletters/Looseleafs/ Directories
- Leading Medical Publishers
- Reed Elsevier
- Wolters Kluwer
- Thomson Reuters
- Springer Science+Business Media
- John Wiley & Sons
- Informa
- UBM Medica
- American Medical Association
- Thieme
- Hearst
- Current Trends in Medical Publishing
- EHR Stuck in the Weeds
- Medical Publishing Goes Mobile
- Journal Article Calls for Reforms
- Mergers & Acquisitions in the Medical Publishing Market
- Table 2.1: Global Medical Publishing Market by Medium, 2009-2011P
- Table 2.2: Global Medical Publishing, Media Market Share, 2010
- Table 2.3: Leading Medical Publishers, 2009-2011P
- Table 2.4: Electronic Medical Products and Services
- Table 2.5: Key Medical Publishing M&A Activity, January - December 2010
- Table 2.6: Key Medical Publishing M&A Activity, January - December 2011
Company Profiles
- American Chemical Society
- American Medical Association
- British Medical Association
- EBSCO Publishing
- Epocrates
- Hearst Corp.
- Holtzbrinck
- IEEE
- IHS
- Informa plc
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- The McGraw-Hill Companies
- Pearson plc
- ProQuest
- Reed Elsevier
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Thieme Publishing Group
- Thomson Reuters
- UBM Medica Ltd.
- Wolters Kluwer
