As publishing workflows become increasingly complex and overloaded to keep pace with the latest research and innovations, it is critical to maintain efficient, yet flexible operations. Publishers often shuffle content, data, and communications between key stakeholders across incompatible and disparate systems. As book publishers struggle to juggle multiple projects at once, traditional silos decrease visibilityRead More
Becoming a more pronounced practice in the mid-to-late 20th century, peer review remains the “golden standard” of evaluating knowledge. Effective and impartial peer review is essential to supporting quality scholarly research and lies at the core of the publishing process. Through the evolution of technologies, policies, and values overtime, emerging models of peer review haveRead More
With advancements in technology, the introduction of flexible business models, and the emergence of various fraud phenomena led by bad actors – maintaining integrity in scholarly publishing has never been more critical or more challenging. As scholarly journals continue to receive an ever-increasing influx of submissions, the more difficult it is for editorial teams toRead More
In a digital world, consumers are accustomed to instant gratification, accessible displays, intuitive user journeys, and immersive experiences as they interact with the various technologies and platforms in their lives. Prioritizing user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, responsive design, and user support is imperative to achieving this level of customer satisfaction. In theRead More
As a key pillar to any business’s success, the importance of communication cannot be overstated – especially within the ever-evolving scholarly publishing landscape. With so many different players, priorities, and perspectives, it is critical for publishers and societies to optimize communication across global stakeholders to maximize engagement. Ineffective, non-transparent, or outdated communications (and its channels)Read More
Analytics, the systematic analysis of data and statistics to discover meaningful patterns, is essential for how businesses define and achieve success. Leveraging analytics can have a huge impact on publishers and their bottom line including optimized operations, increased revenue, reduced costs, improve quality of published works, enhanced experience for stakeholders, and greater competitive advantage. MostRead More
ORCID – the Open Research and Contributor ID – is an independent, not-for-profit organization that issues unique, persistent digital identifiers for scholarly researchers. This enables transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributors, and their affiliations as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation. More than nine million ORCID iDs have been issued, and hasRead More
Traditional article production workflows shuffle static, unstructured Word documents or PDFs between key stakeholders across disparate systems. During the copyediting stage, the document is circulated and marked up with edits between the Authors and the production Editor, and is then transferred to an XML typesetting operator responsible for interpreting and implementing the changes to aRead More
The scholarly publishing landscape is characterized by continuous innovation and progression to facilitate and enhance the dissemination of global research. In the early 2000s, the transition from physical, mail-based publishing operations to digital workflows through the introduction of email and online peer review systems revolutionized the industry. With increased adoption of hybrid and open accessRead More
As publishing workflows become increasingly complex to keep pace with various publication formats, leading business models, and internationalization, it is even more critical to maintain efficient, yet flexible operations. Publishers often shuffle content, data, and communications between key stakeholders across incompatible and disparate systems. These gaps can lead to confusion, loss of data, increased costs,Read More
Editorial offices face many challenges, including managing an increase in submission volume beyond their capacity, locating qualified researchers for peer review, maximizing reach and impact of published works on a global scale, making data more accessible, implementing various business models (such as Open Access (OA)), ensuring accuracy and reproducibility of metadata and research, and more.Read More
Publishers are responsible for sending hundreds of notices to their Authors, Editors, Reviewers, freelancers, and vendors on a regular basis. Whether it is a manuscript status update, peer review invitation, automated reminder, revision request, or transfer notice, generating clear and effective communication across stakeholders is critical during the editorial and production process. In addition toRead More