In this Scholastica water cooler chat, Ashley Farley, Senior Officer of Knowledge & Research Services at The Gates Foundation, shares recent shifts in funder OA policies.
In honor of OA Week, we're highlighting developing cooperative OA publishing models designed to generate and keep value within the research communities they serve.
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!
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.
Publishing leaders from the Biochemical Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers discuss the benefits of societies running journal programs and their approach in the second part of our series on cultivating sustainable in-house publishing programs.
Inspired by the SSP conference session Locally Sourced, Locally Owned: Independent Society Journal Publishing to Seed Trust and Transformation, the Scholastica team decided to reach out to society and institute leaders operating publishing programs to get their take on the primary benefits of in-house publishing and the factors they consider most critical to their success. Here's what they had to say.
Leaders at university presses and scholarly societies publishing research across disciplines discuss the biggest opportunities they see for independent academic publishers to further their journal programs in 2023 and beyond.
Director of Publications at the American Urological Association, Jennifer Regala, shares the biggest journal development opportunities she sees in 2023, focusing on investing in open access and supplementary content to promote readership growth and create new sponsorship opportunities.
