Last week we attended the ISMTE North American Conference. In this post we highlight conference sessions we were able to go to, including our presentation on polishing your peer review process.
What will Elsevier's acquisition of bepress mean for the journals and institutions that rely on Digital Commons to host open access content? We explore this question following the recent news.
What is the author experience with article processing charges like? In this blog post we break down 5 key insights from a 2017 Knowledge Exchange report from surveys of researchers throughout Europe.
Donna Hughes discusses how she started the open access journal Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence and why she chose to do so without a publisher.
How are most journals doing in the pursuit of gathering and analyzing meaningful performance data? According to Jason Roberts, Senior Partner at Origin Editorial, the majority could use some work.
Wendy Laura Belcher, former managing editor of Aztlán Journal of Chicano Studies, discusses how to avoid the perils of unclear communication with authors around manuscript decisions and ongoing revise and resubmit requests.
One leading example of a successful library publishing program is Michigan Publishing out of University of Michigan Library. In this interview Jason Colman, Director of Michigan Publishing Services, shares his experience with the program and how it works.
Did you miss the live stream of Scholastica's webinar, OA Advocates Weigh in on the Democratization of Academic Journals? You can watch it on-demand!
Dana Compton, Senior Consulting Associate at KWF Consulting, shares an overview of why strategic planning is so important for journals and advice on what to cover in your next strategic planning meeting.
Two years since she started using Scholastica, Managing Editor of ITE Journal Marianne Saglam says she's less stressed about managing the journal because Scholastica keeps working for her ensuring peer review stays organized even when she isn't actively managing it.
