Dr. Simine Vazire, Professor at the University of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of Collabra: Psychology, a fully-OA journal out of UC Press, discusses the journal's unique funding model and steps they're taking to promote transparency in publishing.
Dr. Andrew Piper, Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University, and editor of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, discusses how the Diamond OA title has developed in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Dr. Craig Cohen, Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Global Health, a new journal out of UC Press and the UC Global Health Institute, shares steps he and his team are taking to factor structural equity into publication planning, including framing the journal around the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
How can scholarly publishers support metadata enrichment and dissemination starting at peer review to help link the many facets of scholars' identities online? We explored this question during Scholastica's recent Peer Review Week webinar.
Transformative Agreements are emerging as one of the most promising routes to transition scholarly journals to open access models, but developing them can be challenging for smaller publishers. In this blog post, Megan Taylor and Lou Peck of The International Bunch share some tips to help.
Have you been wondering whether Scopus indexing could be a good fit for your journal or journals? Learn more about what Scopus has to offer and how you can set about navigating its application process in this blog post.
Annie Gering, Publishing Editor at RTI Press, discusses how RTI improved its peer review experience for editors, authors, and reviewers and started producing articles in more index-optimized digital formats with the help of Scholastica in this interview.
If you work with one or more scholarly journals that don't yet have mobile-ready websites, now's the time for your publishing team to transition to a mobile-friendly design. In this blog post, we break down why journals' mobile browsing experience matters and how to make websites mobile-friendly.
How can journals get closer to having rich metadata and ultimately more discoverable articles? This blog post overviews five machine-readable metadata elements most commonly requested by scholarly communication stakeholders across disciplines that publishers should prioritize.
What steps can the scholarly community take to reform research evaluation and move away from relying too heavily on finite metrics that could skew the results? A recent NISO webinar series explored this question.
