Trends: Niches Matter

• The conflation of union lists, human indexing services, routing services, and delivery infrastructure for medical literature is an exception, not the rule, and it’s not fixed

• Confining the media, the information domain, or the user base to a well-defined community

  • Can make things simpler
  • Can encourage diversity in competition

• Regional or administrative affiliations provide relationship glue that can be leveraged elsewhere in the system