Publishers who are exploring new approaches to packaging their content in ways that don't fit into the definition of article or book or monograph will answer the following questions:
- What happens to the value of content when it is no longer bound within a defined container, e.g. journal or book or monograph, and instead becomes one part of a targeted collection based on user interests and behaviors?
- And how does it impact publishers and librarians?
- Are users better served by targeted content in all ways?
- And how about OA - what are the impacts of applying OA to an "unbound" piece of content?
- What are the groupings of content and connections between content that become possible without the constraints of an arbitrary container?
- Are there ways that the community can be brought together around content online?
A librarian will provide perspective on how removing content from traditional containers affects their buying decisions as well as their user communities. And a platform technology provider will share insight into usage trends captured via the platform that can be leveraged to help publishers in experimenting with packaging content in this way.
