Research on the Game between Libraries and Database Providers based on the Analysis of Annual Reports of Listed Companies

Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Science submitted time 2023-01-12

Yang Hua Li Lingli Mo Xiaoxia Xin Lei Niu Yue

Abstract：

Purpose/significance  High pricing and growth or other problems as the unreasonable contracts which libraries faced in the past procurement negotiation with e-resource, the study brings the methods of annual reports of listed companies to we explore new game thoughts. Method/process We structure framework includes industrial chain analysis, revenue-profit indicators, and competitiveness factors , taking Elsevier, CNKI, and Clarivate three companies as cases, then discover that competitiveness, profits and renewal rate are the three most concerned aspects of database providers. We analysis that there are two sides in the game between libraries and database providers at the same time: initiative and passivity, and there were some deviations of recognition in the perception of operating costs and price increases, profits rate and referent, open access and social responsibility in the past train of thought. Result/conclusion We should increase the competitive strategies of zero-sum game and repeated game, and give more funds to domestic academic publishers appropriately, seek media attention, legal support, and deepen research on the price of digital publishing production to face a new round of capital pressure and business remodeling under the open information ecology.  Limitation  It is necessary to expand other research report or information from professional invest institution to remedying the defects of the annual report in the future.

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