In the wake of Plan S and other recent open access mandates, the need to rethink subscription-based journal publishing models is becoming more pressing for scholarly societies and associations around the world. In this interview, Mikael Laakso, Associate Professor at Hanken School of Economics, discusses his research on ways societies are transitioning journals to OA models.

Today, keeping a current journal website doesn't have to involve learning to use complex content management systems or getting a development team to write custom code. Another option is to use an easy-to-edit website template made for academic journals. In this post, we outline three key benefits of using a website template.

On December 5th, 2018 at 10 AM EST Scholastica is hosting a free webinar—How to Start or Flip an Open Access Journal: Publishers and editors share their stories. We'll be discussing the benefits of academic-led publishing as well as the ins and outs of running academic-led journals.

Every journal's peer review process can use some polishing from time to time. In this blog post we outline three areas of peer review that all journals should audit and how to approach data collection.

In this post, we look at some of the most common areas where editorial teams get caught up in manual work and how you can use organization and automation to avoid them.

In this interview, head of metadata at Crossref Patricia Feeney discusses metadata best practices and how journals can use Participation Reports to tell if they are sending Crossref rich machine-readable metadata.

While every academic journal editor may not be involved in article production, it's important that all editors understand the phases of the production process and how they relate to peer review. In this post, we break down the different phases of production common to most journals and how they can impact all aspects of your publication.

What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall? Scholastica Co-Founder and CEO Brian Cody argues it all depends on people getting behind new ways of publishing.

Three ways that academic journals can better acknowledge and support the vast network of ESL authors to help them navigate manuscript preparation and to encourage more global research policy and dissemination.

In this post, we look at 3 areas of manuscript submissions and peer review that can test authors' trust in your journal and how to address them.