Recently at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, KGL PubFactory’s Director of Platform Services, Tom Beyer, together with longtime platform partner, Stuart Maxwell, COO of Scholarly iQ, presented a poster on the advanced analytics available to publishers that many are still not using for their editorial, sales, and Plan S strategies.
A central pillar of academic publishing, peer review has always been a hotly debated, highly politicized, and controversial subject in the industry, and with good reason.
The global publishing industry has always had a conflicted relationship with the environment.
“If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it,” wrote Charles Bukowski in his poem “So you want to be a writer?” Being an author isn’t easy.
Throughout the twentieth century, academic institutions had a mandate to provide full access to the peer-reviewed scholarly literature and budgets that were more or less up to the task.
A large society with multiple journals in a complex field required an editorial services provider able to provide a high level of editorial support and the flexibility to work across more than one manuscript management system.
In July we published an article entitled, The Meteoric Rise of Video Content which looked at how different parts of the publishing world were increasingly working with video-based content, particularly in the shorter form.
A KGL Editorial client requested assistance with initiatives to raise the journal’s profile and to elevate its Impact Factor.
A large, member-based society with multiple journals planned a transition from one manuscript management system to another.
