For over a hundred years, the business of publishing academic journals has been sustained by the subscription model.
For Peer Review Week, KGL recently interviewed five scholarly journal editors and publishing professionals on the state of peer review in 2023.
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.
“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.
In what has become an annual tradition here at KGL, we take stock at the start of the year, consult our publishing experts, and go out on a limb to try and foretell what the future holds for our industry.
Recently, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) was very excited to announce the acquisition of Kaufman Wills Fusting & Company (KWF). The addition of sister companies, KWF Consulting and KWF Editorial adds new and expanded capabilities to the KGL portfolio and nearly 100 editorial and publishing business experts to our staff of industry professionals—not the least of whom, of course, is KWF co-founder, Cara (Kaufman) Rivera.
The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) had a time-sensitive requirement to change the business model of their flagship journal, HortTechnology, from a subscription to an Open Access (OA) model, with a hard launch date of January 1, 2019.
Autumn is a busy time for KGL PubFactory. Each year, as industry events start to fill the calendar, our community of customers, partners and staff gather for our user group meeting—held the past two years as the PubFactory Virtual Series.
