Company:Scholastica
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| Industry | Academic Publishing |
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| Founded | 2012 in Chicago , Illinois, United States |
| Founders | Brian Cody, Rob Walsh, and Cory Schires |
Number of employees | 13 |
| Website | scholasticahq |
Scholastica is a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated peer review and open access publishing tools.
History
Scholastica was founded in 2012 by Brian Cody, Rob Walsh, and Cory Schires, who met while they were graduate students at the University of Chicago..[1] In May of 2014, Scholastica acquired $510,000 in seed funding from investors.[2][3]
Product
Scholastica offers two main products: Peer review software and Open Access publishing software. Scholastica customers include journals in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM, as well as student-run law reviews.[4]
Academic publishing
In March 2016 Discrete Analysis, an arXiv overlay journal launched by Fields Medalist Sir Timothy Gowers, started using Scholastica for both Peer review and Open Access publishing.[5]
Open access
Scholastica is a supporter of the open access movement. Scholastica has worked with open access advocates like Björn Brembs[6], Ulrich Herb, Stevan Harnad and others to create open access resources[7] for the academic community.
Scholastica has been referenced by scholars including, Mark C. Wilson, as a software and service-based open access publishing option that could lower publishing costs by “at least 75% of current payments”[8]
Typesetting service
In February 2018, Scholastica launched a new typesetting service for open access journals that uses technology to generate HTML and PDF articles from DOCX files.[9]
References
- ↑ Strahler, Steven (May 31, 2014). "Trying to disrupt the high price of academic publishing". Crain's Business. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140531/ISSUE01/305319938/trying-to-disrupt-the-high-price-of-academic-publishing/.
- ↑ Chaney, Keidra (May 15, 2014). "Scholastica snags $510,000 to modernize academic publishing". Built In Chicago. https://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/scholastica-acquires-510000-seed-funding.
- ↑ "Scholastica Crunchbase Profile". Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/scholastica.
- ↑ Shepherd, Cameron (October 13, 2017). "#FoundersFriday with Brian Cody from Scholastica". Digital Science. https://www.digital-science.com/blog/tech/foundersfriday-brian-cody-scholastica/.
- ↑ Knudson, Kevin (April 30, 2016). "The Future Of Mathematics Publishing: An Interview With Sir Timothy Gowers". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2016/04/30/the-future-of-mathematics-publishing-an-interview-with-sir-timothy-gowers/#7d19795d68b9..
- ↑ Brembs, Björn (November 29, 2017). "Is A Cost-Neutral Transition To Open Access Realistic?". Björn Brembs Blog. http://bjoern.brembs.net/2017/11/is-a-cost-neutral-transition-to-open-access-realistic/.
- ↑ "Scholastica White Paper Calls for Democratized Journal Publishing". OpenAIRE. March 31, 2017. https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1861.
- ↑ Wilson, Mark (December 11, 2017). "Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research". The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392.
- ↑ "Scholastica". Research Information. February 9, 2018. https://www.researchinformation.info/product/scholastica.
Further reading
- Lippincott, Sarah Kalikman (2017). "Library as Publisher: New Models of Scholarly Communication for a New Era". Against the Grain. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cb/mpub9944345/1:6/--library-as-publisher-new-models-of-scholarly-communication?rgn=div1;view=fulltext.
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