At Scholastica, we wanted to highlight some of the many emerging opportunities for academic journal programs, with a focus on scholarly societies and university presses. So we asked a handful of leading publishers to share the developments they're most excited about in 2023 and beyond.

When XML Marks the Spot: Machine-readable journal articles for discovery and preservation, a free webinar, co-hosted by Scholastica, UOregon Libraries, and the GWU Masters in Publishing program, offers a crash course in the benefits of XML production and use cases. Learn more and get the recording on demand!

Scholastica announces the release of the 2022 State of Journal Production and Access report. The report encompasses the results of our second global survey of independent academic publishers about how they're approaching journal production and content access now and in the future. Read on for the full details!

If your journal publishing program has limited resources (which most do!), it's vital to focus your promotion efforts on the channels with the most potential. So how can you do that? There's no better way than to make data-driven decisions. Here are 7 ways to leverage journal analytics to reach more authors and readers.

In this interview, Independent Musicologist and Disability Activist Tekla Babyak (Ph.D., Musicology, Cornell, 2014) discusses her experience as an academic living with MS and shares steps scholarly journal publishers and editors can take to better support authors with disabilities.

In celebration of OA Week, Scholastica is highlighting customers publishing research related to climate justice. In this interview, Senior Editor for Advances in Global Health Dr. Fernando Mardones discusses how the journal is approaching the nexus between health equity and climate change.

In honor of Peer Review Week 2022, Scholastica held a free panel-style webinar on plagiarism detection best practices in the evolving journal publishing landscape. Learn more about the discussion and register to receive the full recording on demand!

At the 2022 SSP Conference, attendees had a chance to take a hypothetical trip to the early days of digital-first journal production during the panel session Back to the future of digital-first publishing: Where we are and where we're going. What were the key takeaways? We cover highlights in this blog post!

Scholastica announces the launch of our second State of Journal Production and Access survey of independent scholarly society and university publishers, which will be used to develop an open industry report. If you work with a scholarly society, university press, library, or institution that independently publishes one or more journals, please take the survey to help develop collective insights.

Rapid market consolidation doesn't have to be the only way forward in the OA movement for scholarly societies. Examples of independent society publishers successfully implementing new OA models in the wild provide valuable insights and inspiration for others to follow suit.