We're continuing our blog series on cultivating community-driven OA journals in honor of Open Access Week 2024. In this post, hear from editors at Precision Nanomedicine, The Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine, and The Journal of The British Blockchain Association.
With so much misinformation out in the world, making reliable scholarly outputs readily available is more critical than ever. In this blog, we consider how academic organizations are developing toolkits for sustainable OA publishing and Scholastica's role in supporting those efforts.
What steps should emerging community-driven OA journals take to build engaged editor, author, reviewer, and reader communities? We asked Scholastica users to share their experiences and advice for a new OA Week series. Here's what they had to say!
This blog post explores some of the latest examples of open access publishing models scholarly societies are adopting, how they're working to advance research equity within those frameworks, and industry learnings.
Are you working with a scholarly society or institution starting an Open Access journal or thinking about transitioning one or more titles to a fully OA publishing model and wondering where to begin? In this blog post, we break down how to determine the best OA publishing route for your organization and get your efforts off the ground.
Christopher Priestley-Milianta, fifth-year MD/PhD student at Georgetown University School of Medicine and editor of the Georgetown Medical Review, discusses the expansion of GMR and how working with Scholastica Production has helped them scale.
With the expansion of research access initiatives worldwide, journal open access policies are no longer a nice to have author resource. They're becoming a necessity for both OA and subscription titles. This blog post covers steps journal teams can take to ensure they have adequate OA Policies in the new year.
Once a scholar finds your OA journal website, what can you do to encourage them to return to it? Here are five steps your team can take with examples from the Scholastica Open Access Publishing Platform.
Who reaps the fruits of academic research? Much like crops in agriculture, the answer depends on how content is produced and disseminated. We explore the potential to apply concepts from local farming to grow community-driven publishing models in this new blog for International Open Access Week 2023.
In light of recent efforts to stall OSTP OA policy work in the US without community input, we wanted to use Scholastica's blog to help raise awareness of the latest developments surrounding the Nelson Memo and other emerging global OA mandates and ways scholarly communication stakeholders can get involved to have their voices heard.
