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Breeding, Marshall. OCLC sues Clarivate over MetaDoor and its use of WorldCat records. Jun 2022. Library Technology Newsletter. OCLC filed a lawsuit against Clarivate and its subsidiaries demanding that Ex Libris cease promoting MetaDoor in a way that causes its member libraries to violate policies and contracts related to records in WorldCat. The complaint, filed on June 13, 2022, claims that Ex Libris is prompting OCLC members to share collection data that includes WorldCat records to MetaDoor in a way that violates OCLC policies and the terms of subscription contracts. OCLC asserts that MetaDoor takes unfair advantage of its long history of building WorldCat as a near-comprehensive bibliographic database. Further, OCLC states that Ex Libris offering MetaDoor as a free service is an anticompetitive strategy that endangers its very existence. This article presents the basic statements related to the complaint without opinion or commentary.

Breeding, Marshall. ProQuest merges into Clarivate: an update on business integration. February 2022. Library Technology Newsletter. The acquisition of ProQuest by Clarivate rattled the library industry, in a bold move that further deepens consolidation. This $5.3 billion transaction brings ProQuest under the umbrella of Clarivate, a major force in the scholarly communications and intellectual property business sectors. Though not a primary publisher, Clarivate offers key content and analytics products including Web of Science, ScholarOne, Publons, InCites analytics, and Endnote. Clarivate competes with Elsevier and Digital Science as a workflow and analytics provider in the scholarly communications business ecosystem. By acquiring ProQuest, Clarivate extends its product strategy to include core library technologies as well as a major portfolio of database and content products. This acquisition moves ProQuest into the ranks of publicly traded companies. The merger was pitched to investors as saving $100 million in operational expenses across the two companies. Libraries naturally have an interest in seeing how these savings are accomplished.

Breeding, Marshall. Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest. July 2021. Smart Libraries Newsletter. The commercial landscape that includes the scholarly communications sector and library systems and services will take new form with the proposed acquisition of ProQuest by Clarivate, a large publicly traded company with diverse products and services spanning the scientific research and intellectual property sectors. This $5.3 billion transaction is the largest by far in the library sector.

Breeding, Marshall. Clarivate Analytics Acquires Kopernio. May 2018. Smart Libraries Newsletter. In recent years, several companies in the scholarly publishing industry have expanded their portfolios with new workflow and analytics products and services. In a move consistent with this trend, Clarivate Analytics has acquired Kopernio, a company that has created a web browser extension that facilitates access to scholarly articles. The acquisition of the product further extends the tools Clarivate Analytics offers in scholarly communications arena.

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June 18, 2025. Clarivate unveils the 2025 Journal Citation Reports. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, released the 2025 update to the Journal Citation Reports. This is the 50th anniversary of the industry-leading annual reports, which provide a comprehensive overview of the world's leading and trusted academic journals, offering academic institutions, researchers, and publishers the ability to gauge journals' trustworthiness and impact. Only journals that have met the rigorous quality standards for inclusion in the Web of Science Core Collection are featured within the Journal Citation Reports, which ensures users can confidently rely on the information and descriptive data provided. The annual reports provide a rich array of publisher–neutral data, metrics, and analysis to enhance user understanding of journal performance, including the widely recognized Journal Impact Factor and the Journal Citation Indicator.

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June 17, 2025. U.S. News releases 2025-2026 Best Global Universities Rankings. U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings and consumer advice, today published the 2025-2026 Best Global Universities rankings, which evaluate more than 2,250 schools on academic research and reputation. Powered by data and metrics from the Web of Science Core Collection and InCites Benchmarking and Analytics provided by Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, the Best Global Universities methodology weighs factors that measure a university's global and regional research reputation and academic research performance.

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June 13, 2025. Clarivate commits to ERIC, the world's most widely used index of education-related literature. Clarivate announced its continued commitment to the Education Resources Information Center, the world's most widely used index to education-related literature and a critical resource for libraries, education researchers and practitioners globally. ERIC is currently sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Clarivate is launching the free ProQuest Education Research Index, which includes ERIC data. ProQuest Education Research Index includes ERIC alongside ProQuest Supplemental Education Index, a newly created index that covers the majority of scholarly journals currently indexed by ERIC. It is designed to ensure continued coverage of as many ERIC-indexed titles as possible and will grow over time.

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June 10, 2025. Pioneering the future of research intelligence with agentic AI. Last year Clarivate announced the development of Web of Science Research Intelligence, a transformational AI-native software solution that enables research institutions to accelerate innovation and showcase societal impact, in close partnership with several institutions around the world. Since that time, artificial intelligence capabilities have evolved at an unprecedented pace, opening entirely new possibilities for how we can analyze, evaluate, and accelerate research—beyond what was imaginable when we first conceptualized the product. In the next phase of development, the first set of customers will begin using the platform this August, marking a significant milestone in our journey to redefine research intelligence. By embedding advanced agentic AI and deep semantic understanding at the heart of the platform, Clarivate is helping transform how research organizations navigate complexity, demonstrate impact and shape the future of knowledge.

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June 9, 2025. Clarivate partners with American Library Association to advocate for US Libraries. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced a new milestone in its decades-long partnership with the American Library Association. Clarivate will be the first sponsor of the ALA Public Supporter Program, which engages the public in supporting libraries and library professionals. The Public Supporter Program, which launched on Feb. 10, 2025, provides the public with access to valuable information and resources about library advocacy, news, and ways to get involved in protecting libraries. The program aims to bolster ALA's efforts to ensure libraries continue to provide essential services and resources to communities, promoting literacy, education, and access to information. ALA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

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June 3, 2025. Clarivate completes refinancing of majority of senior secured notes due 2026. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced that it has successfully completed an incremental upsize of its term loan B credit facility.

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June 3, 2025. Clarivate partners with CRKN to further Canada's research goals. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced a multi-year partnership with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a consortium of libraries and research institutions in Canada. The agreement provides 55 Canadian universities with expanded access to the Web of Science and is designed to enhance inter-member research collaborations, improving accessibility to Web of Science content for all members.

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June 2, 2025. Clarivate and CAPES expand landmark partnership to power research and innovation across Brazil. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the renewal of its multi-year partnership with Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, significantly expanding access to trusted Academia & Government and Life Sciences & Healthcare data across over 400 Brazilian institutions. As compared to the previous contract, the agreement increases institutional coverage by 57%, extending the reach of high-quality research tools to universities and research centers across Brazil — from major metropolitan areas to the country's most remote regions.

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May 29, 2025. Briefing: Research in the United States as a driver for economic growth and global impact. Governments' investments in academic institutions shape the research landscape and drive the innovation pipeline. In this briefing the Institute for Scientific Information examines the research economy of the United States.

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May 19, 2025. Clarivate Launches AI-based RiskMark to Accelerate Trademark. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the launch of RiskMark, an AI-powered solution combining global CompuMark trademark data and Darts-ip litigation data to evaluate trademark risk. Leveraging 172.5 million trademark records spanning 188 jurisdictions and over 5 million global court and administrative records, RiskMark combines generative and predictive AI to transform the process of assessing similarity risk based on relevant evidence. This enables trademark professionals to make strategic decisions and craft arguments with greater speed and confidence. The solution generates near-instant results on visual, phonetic, connotation, and goods and services relatedness to accelerate informed decision-making.

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Dec 22, 2021 Clarivate acquires Patient Connect
Clarivate has acquired Patient Connect, a provider of patient engagement solutions that enable the measurement of clinical and commercial outcomes and inform the advancement of healthcare. Patient Connect patient engagement solutions improve patient outcomes by delivering clinical messaging to physicians and pharmacists at the point of patient contact. Clinical messaging is delivered in physician and pharmacist workflows, to help guide patients to better understand their treatment and disease and empower them to make informed healthcare decisions. Patient Connect has a global reach of 834,000 physicians, 600,000 pharmacists and 1,000,000,000 patients, by point of contact.

May 16, 2021 Clarivate to acquire ProQuest
Clarivate announced a definitive agreement to acquire ProQuest, a leading global software, data and analytics provider to academic, research and national institutions, from Cambridge Information Group, a family-owned investment firm, and other partners including Atairos, for $5.3 billion, including refinancing of ProQuest debt. The consideration for the acquisition is approximately $4.0 billion in cash and $1.3 billion of equity. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, is expected to close during the third quarter of 2021.

Nov 09, 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers acquires Techstreet from Clarivate
Clarivate and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers announced that the International Society of Interdisciplinary Engineers LLC, a new for-profit subsidiary of ASME, has acquired Techstreet.

Nov 2020 Kopernio relaunched as EndNote Click

Oct 30, 2020 Clarivate acquires Hanlim IPS
Clarivate announced that it has acquired South Korean Hanlim IPS. By combining strengths, Clarivate and Hanlim IPS will be able to provide a more comprehensive suite of intellectual property solutions to customers in South Korea and worldwide, covering the entire innovation and IP lifecycle – from scientific and academic research to IP portfolio management and protection.

Oct 26, 2020 Clarivate acquires IncoPat
Beijing Incopat Co., Ltd has joined Clarivate. By combining strengths, Clarivate and IncoPat will be able to provide a more comprehensive suite of intellectual property solutions to customers in China and worldwide, covering the entire innovation and IP lifecycle – from scientific and academic research to IP portfolio management and protection.

Oct 01, 2020 Clarivate completes acquisition of CPA Global
Clarivate announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition of CPA Global, creating an intellectual property powerhouse.

Mar 02, 2020 Clarivate Analytics closes acquisition of Decision Resources Group
Clarivate Analytics announced it has completed its acquisition of Decision Resources Group from Piramal Enterprises Limited. DRG is a premier provider of high-value data, analytics and insights products and services to the healthcare industry. DRG specializes in enabling the world's leading pharma, biotech and medical technology companies to achieve commercial success in complex health markets with the creation of effective patient-centric commercial strategies.

Dec 02, 2019 Clarivate Analytics acquires Darts-ip
Clarivate Analytics announced it has acquired Darts-ip, a leading provider of case law data and analytics for intellectual property professionals. Recently awarded best legal tech company by Trends Legal Awards in Belgium, Darts-ip's case law data and supporting analytics solutions will be offered alongside Clarivate's trusted patent, trademark and domain data and solutions, across Derwent, CompuMark and MarkMonitor.

Sep 09, 2019 Clarivate Analytics acquires SequenceBase
Clarivate Analytics announced that it has acquired the business of SequenceBase, a leader in providing patent sequence information and search technology to the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The acquisition will deliver an expanded solution to the fast-growing biologics market. It complements Derwent’s GENESEQ database and leading patent research platform Derwent Innovation, providing users with an intuitive solution to easily search, analyze and find context in sequence data within patents. GENESEQ is a proprietary database trusted by the largest players in biologics today. It is the only database to provide annotated analysis to help simplify the complexity of searching and identifying biological sequences (DNA, RNA and protein sequences) covered in patents from over 50 patent issuing authorities.

May 13, 2019 Clarivate Analytics becomes a public company through merger with Churchill Capital Corp
Clarivate Analytics, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and Churchill Capital Corp, a publicly traded investment vehicle, announced the closing of their merger following the receipt of stockholder approval at Churchill's special meeting of stockholders. In connection with the consummation of the merger, the combined company was renamed Clarivate Analytics Plc, and anticipates that starting on May 14, 2019, its ordinary shares and warrants will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE American under the symbols CCC and CCC WS, respectively.

Oct 30, 2018 Clarivate Analytics acquires TrademarkVision
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced the acquisition of Australian AI-technology company TrademarkVision. It joins Boston-based company CompuMark, the trademark clearance and protection partner for 9 out of 10 of the world's most valuable brands.

Apr 10, 2018 Clarivate Analytics acquires Kopernio
Clarivate Analytics announced the strategic acquisition of AI-technology startup Kopernio, to create the definitive publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide. Kopernio's vision is to legally provide one-click access to millions of journal articles and academic research papers across the globe, dramatically improving and facilitating access to scientific knowledge.

Jul 2017 Kopernio was founded by Jan Reichelt and Benjamin Kaube

Jun 01, 2017 Clarivate Analytics acquires Publons
Clarivate Analytics today announced the acquisition of Publons and its leading global platform for researchers to share, discuss and receive recognition for peer review and editing of academic research. The acquisition brings together the world's preeminent citation database and the world's largest researcher-facing peer-review data and recognition platform.

Oct 04, 2016 Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science becomes Clarivate Analytics
The previously announced sale of the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business to Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia was completed . The company's many well‐known brands include Web of Science, Cortellis, Thomson Innovation, Derwent World Patents Index, Thomson CompuMark, MarkMonitor, Thomson IP Managerand Techstreet, among others. The newly independent company will be known as Clarivate Analytics, a name that speaks to accelerating the pace of innovation with the trusted insights and analytics it provides to customers. Clarivate Analytics enables users around the world to discover, protect and commercialize their ideas, faster.

Oct 2013 Thomson Reuters acquires Entagen, builds Cortellis data fusion technology
Opportunities created by Cortellis Data Fusion are a result of the recent acquisition by Thomson Reuters of Entagen, an industry-leader in providing semantic search/navigation software and custom development services to large pharma, biotech and laboratory automation companies.

2012 Publons founded by Andrew Preston and Daniel Johnston

2012 MarkMonitor purchased by Thomson Reuters

2011 Thomson Reuters launches Cortellis

Jul 01, 2008 ProQuest acquires Dialog from Thomson Reuters
ProQuest acquired Dialog from ThomsonReuters and named industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. Ms. BeDell will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn.

2008 Patient Connect founded by Dr.Grace Lomax and Zoe Barker

Mar 05, 2007 Thomson agrees to buy Reuters for $17.2 bln
Thomson Corp has agreed to buy Reuters Group for about 8.7 billion pounds ($17.20 billion) to create the world's biggest financial news and data company, the two firms said on Tuesday.

2006 Darts-IP founded by Jean-Jo Evrard

Jun 2005 SequenceBase founded by Martin Goffman

Apr 15, 1999 Institute for Scientific Information acquires Niles Software and EndNote
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) today announced the acquisition of Niles Software, Inc. and the formation of a new company, ISI ResearchSoft. Berkeley,California-based Niles Software, creators of the EndNote bibliographic management program, will combine forces with another ISI subsidiary, Research Information Systems

1999 MarkMonitor Inc. founded by Faisal Shah, Ed Priddy and James Hepworth

1997 ISI launches Web of Science

1996 Hanlim IPS was founded by Lim, Dong-Choon

1992 Institute for Scientific Information acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare and named Thomson ISI

1990 Decision Resources Group founded by Samuel C. Fleming and Sarah Fuller
Decision Resources was founded in 1990 by Samuel C. Fleming, CEO, and Sarah W. Fuller, President.

1988 JPT holdings and Ted Cross acquire majority ownership of ISI
In 1988 Ted Cross and JPT holdings acquired over 50% of ISI’s shares.

1985 Niles Software Inc. founded by Richard Niles
In 1985, Dr. Richard Niles, then a Mathematician, noticed that his wife (a scientist herself) was spending long hours compiling bibliographies for different journal formats. He decided to create a tool that would help his wife and other researchers to manage references and compile bibliographies automatically. Niles Software Inc. was founded in 1985 with a mission to create innovative software that simplifies the research and writing needs of the academic, biomedical, and scientific communities.

1969 CPA Global Founded
Patent lawyers from different law firms in United Kingdom established CPA Global sharing the same objective, which is to provide intellectual property renewal services specializing in patents

1965 Science Citation Index, later known as Web of Science, launched by Eugene Garfield

1960 Eugene Garfield Associates Inc renamed to Institute for Scientific Information

1958 Institute for Scientific Information founded by Eugene Garfield
The company was originally known as Documation. Eugene Garfield starts ISI by borrowing $500 from Household Finance. Current Contents of Chemical, Pharmaco-Medical & Life Sciences is the sole product. It covers 200 journals in about 32 pages per issue.