Media literacy is a field that is rapidly gaining traction and is opening up new publishing opportunities for the educational market.

The number of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs in the U.S. is expected to grow in the future, but some worry the workforce will not keep pace.

Educational publishing is no stranger to disruption, and this vast, shifting market is experiencing new waves of challenges and competitive forces related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medical publishing targets both students and professionals practicing in a variety of healthcare professions. The market encompasses a broad range of formats from journals and books to online content such as databases and clinical research tools.

For years, Simba Information’s Professional group has served the information needs of publishers large and small in the market for Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) research.

Simba Information’s newsletters, Educational Marketer and Electronic Education Report, provide critical information to top executives in the educational publishing and electronic instructional materials markets.

Simba Information published its latest report Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024. The report found tepid growth in professional e-books for 2019, and the forecast for 2020 shows declining sales based on COVID-19 disruptions.

Open access provides scholarly journal articles for free to readers online without most licensing and copyright restrictions.

As a Senior Analyst at Simba Information, Dan Strempel serves as an expert on the professional publishing markets, including scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing and legal and business information markets. He writes and edits research reports and completes custom research projects, which provide market analysis, competitive intelligence, and unique insight into emerging trends.

All eyes in the scholarly professional publishing industry are on market leader Elsevier to see how the company will react to a decision by of a group of prominent University of California faculty to step away from journal editorial boards until the publisher agrees to restart negotiations with the 10-campus system on a new contract for access to Elsevier’ scholarly journals.