STM Online Services 2021-2025


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STM Online Services 2021-2025

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Scientific, technical and medical online services loom larger in the professional publishing market than ever before. Books are in decline and journals face upheaval from the impact of open access policies. STM online services represent an exciting market where there is growth and opportunity for development and collaboration. Rely on Simba Information’s STM Online Services 2021-2025 to build your strategy in the critical online STM publishing market for this year and beyond.

STM Online Services 2021-2025 provides an overview and financial outlook for the global STM online services market based on specific research and analysis of the leading competitors’ performance. Company performance is estimated through 2021.

The overall STM publishing market is divided into:
  • Abstracting & Indexing Services (A&I): secondary publishing services almost entirely delivered via electronic databases, but including a dwindling portion from print, CD-ROM or even microfiche.
  • Online Content: stand-alone STM Web sites, electronic databases and online marketplaces that are not based on books, journals or A&I services. Includes standards, patents, training and certification, clinical reference, drug databases, reference management and analytical tools.
  • Simba provides market sizing for A&I and online services in both the scientific and technical and medical segments. These market slices are forecast to 2025.
STM Online Services 2021-2025 contains separate chapters covering the STM publishing market, key competitors, and trends and forecast that include:
  • Simba’s exclusive analysis of market size and structure
  • A look at the geographic breakdown of online services sales
  • Discussion and analysis of the impact of currency movements
  • A discussion of the market for non-English-language online services
  • Ranking and analysis of the top ten online services competitors
  • Tracking merger and acquisition activity
Key trends in online STM services discussed include:
  • Analysis of online service growth trend in relation to the decline of STM books
  • The impact of open data mandates
  • Dynamic publishing the next step in technical evolution
  • Tool development and the user engagement strategy
  • Altmetrics support engagement strategy
  • Collaboration among rivals
  • Global health care spending and employment trends
Publishing companies covered in this report include:
  • American Chemical Society
  • athenahealth
  • Clarivate Analytics
  • EBSCO Information Services
  • Elsevier
  • Hearst Health Network
  • IBM Watson Health
  • IHS Markit
  • Pearson
  • Wolters Kluwer
Publishers and investment professionals can trust Simba Information's STM Online Services 2021-2025 to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate growth potential and understand online services trends affecting the scientific, technical & medical publishing industry, as well as to size up the competition.

STM Online Services 2021-2025 is an essential tool for publishing executives, M&A advisors, market analysts, and industry consultants who need to understand the business strategies driving the STM publishing industry.

Simba has the knowledge base and perspective gained from more than 20 years’ covering this market and the rapid changes in technology, the economy, mergers, partnerships and public policy that affect it.


  • Methodology
    • Definition of the STM Online Services Market
      • Online Content
      • Abstracting & Indexing Services
      • Elimination
    • Scope of the Report
    • Sources of Information
      • Primary and Secondary Research
      • Methodology for Projecting/Estimating Results
  • Executive Summary
    • Introduction
    • Key Facts & Trends
      • Medical Online Services Driven by Global Health Expenditure
      • U.S., Europe Lead STM Online Services Development
      • The Utility of Online Services is Displacing Books' Former Market Niche
      • Machine Reading and AI Make Publishing Dynamic
      • Open Data Drives Demand for Discovery & Integration
      • Tools and Services Used to Engage Authors, Researchers
  • Scientific, Technical & Medical Online Services
    • Introduction
    • Market Size
      • Table STM Online Services Revenue Breakdown, 2018-2020
    • Key Online Services Categories
      • Table Scientific & Technical Online Services Revenue Breakdown, 2018-2020
      • Sci-Tech, Standards and Patent Online Content
        • Table STM Online Services, Major Market Categories
      • Drug Databases
        • Table Medical Online Services Revenue Breakdown, 2018-2020
      • Clinical Reference
      • Training and Certification
      • Reference Management and Analytical Tools
      • Sci-Tech Abstracting & Indexing Services
      • Medical Abstracting & Indexing Services
    • STM Publishing by Geography
      • Regional Breakdown:
    • Language Splits and Major Publishing Hubs
      • North America
      • Europe
        • Table Currency Exchange Rate Movements for Europe 2018-2020
      • Asia-Pacific
        • Table Currency Exchange Rate Movements for Asia-Pacific 2018-2020
      • Rest of the World
        • Table Currency Exchange Movements for Rest of World, 2018-2020
    • Currency
  • Leading STM Online Services Publishers
    • Introduction
    • Elsevier
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading STM Online Service Competitor Revenue, 2019-2020
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • IBM Watson Health
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
        • Table Leading Competitors Medical Online Services by Revenue, 2019-2020
    • Wolters Kluwer
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading Drug Database Providers by Revenue, 2019-2020
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • IHS Markit
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading Competitors Scientific & Technical Online Services by Revenue, 2019-2020
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • Clarivate Analytics
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • American Chemical Society
      • Company Overview
        • Table STM Abstracting & Indexing Market Leaders by Revenue, 2019-2020
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • CGG
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading Competitors in Standards, Patents, Online Content by Revenue 2019-2020
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • Hearst Health Network
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • EBSCO Information Services
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • athenahealth
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
        • Table Clinical Reference Leaders by Revenue, 2019-2020
      • STM Online Publishing Strategy
    • Mergers & Acquisitions in the STM Online Services Market
      • Table Key STM Online Services M&A Activity, 2019
      • Table Key STM Online Services M&A Activity, 2020
      • Table Key STM Online Services M&A Activity, 2021
  • Trends & Forecast
    • Introduction
    • Current Trends in STM Online Services
      • The Utility of Online Services is Displacing Books Former Market Niche
      • Library Budgets Have Withstood COVID-19 Impacts… So Far
      • Machine Reading and AI Make Publishing Dynamic
      • Open Data Drives Demand for Discovery & Integration
      • Tools and Services Used to Engage Authors, Researchers
      • Altmetrics Support the Engagement Strategy
      • Stand-Alone Products Have Evolved to be Part of a Platform
      • Medical Online Services Driven by Global Health Expenditure
        • Table World Health Care Expenditure 2021P-2025P
      • Employment Trends: Medical Doctors
        • Table Historical & Projected Growth of Medical Doctors' Global Headcount
      • U.S., Europe Lead STM Online Services Development
    • STM Online Services Forecast
      • Introduction
        • Table Economist, IMF and Freedonia Group World GDP Forecasts, 2021P-2025P
      • STM Online Content Forecast
        • Table STM Online Services Forecast, 2021P-2025P
      • STM Abstracting & Indexing Forecast
      • STM Elimination Forecast
      • S&T Online Services
        • Table Scientific & Technical Online Services Forecast, 2021P-2025P
      • Medical Online Services
        • Table Medical Online Services Forecast, 2021P-2025P
      • Forecast of Leading Publishers
        • Table Leading STM Online Service Competitor Forecast, 2020-2021P

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