Tag:academic journal publishing

It can be tempting to table journal promotion initiatives to focus on editorial work, particularly for small teams. But having a promotion strategy is vital to publication development, and it doesn't have to take a ton of time or resources. This blog post walks through tips to develop an effective and efficient journal promotion plan.

At Scholastica, we're working to support journal publishers taking fully Open Access Plan S compliance routes. In this post, we overview steps journals using Scholastica software and services should take to ensure they're fulfilling the latest Plan S guidelines and our features to help.

If you still have questions about Plan S, you're not alone. As new and revised guidelines are introduced to the developing OA initiative, there's a lot for journal publishers to unpack. In this post, we provide up-to-date answers to the top FAQs we've been hearing.

Publishing consultant Lettie Conrad and Scholastica's Danielle Padula share the top five scholarly publishing trends they're watching in 2022 and implications for small to mid-sized and independent publishers.

In this interview, Scholastica CTO and Co-Founder Cory Schires discusses the development of Scholastica's single-source production service, how it differs from other XML-based workflows, and why we're working to optimize the production process for both humans and machines.

As Scholastica approaches its 10th birthday, CEO and co-founder Brian Cody reflects on the last decade and why Scholastica still believes in and remains committed to democratization over consolidation in scholarly publishing.

For journals in need of peer reviewers, cultivating relationships with early-career researchers (ECRs) is one of the best ways to get new volunteers. In this blog post, we're rounding up three tips for finding and supporting ECR referees.

Set to be formalized as an ANSI/NISO standard, STM's Peer Review Taxonomy is progressing fast. We caught up with Lois Jones, a member of the Taxonomy working group and Peer Review Manager at the APA, to learn more about the initiative.

What steps should scholarly publishers be taking to promote better travel routes and rules of the road for research metadata and data sharing to support discovery, assessment, and reuse, and what are the possibilities? Here are some key takeaways from the 2021 NISO Plus conference.

Where are the biggest scholarly publishing advances occurring? In this blog post, we look at three areas of innovation to watch.