Scholastica (company)
Scholastica is a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated peer review and open access publishing tools.
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| Industry | Academic Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Founders | Brian Cody, Rob Walsh, and Cory Schires |
Number of employees | 13 |
| Website | scholasticahq |
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 2014, Scholastica acquired $510,000 in seed funding from investors.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
Open access
Scholastica is a supporter of the open access movement. Scholastica has worked with open access advocates like Björn Brembs,[5] Ulrich Herb, Stevan Harnad and others to create open access resources[6] 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”[7]
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.[8]
References
- Strahler, Steven (May 31, 2014). "Trying to disrupt the high price of academic publishing". Crain's Business. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- Chaney, Keidra (May 15, 2014). "Scholastica snags $510,000 to modernize academic publishing". Built In Chicago. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- Shepherd, Cameron (October 13, 2017). "#FoundersFriday with Brian Cody from Scholastica". Digital Science. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- Knudson, Kevin (April 30, 2016). "The Future Of Mathematics Publishing: An Interview With Sir Timothy Gowers". Forbes. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- Brembs, Björn (November 29, 2017). "Is A Cost-Neutral Transition To Open Access Realistic?". Björn Brembs Blog. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- "Scholastica White Paper Calls for Democratized Journal Publishing". OpenAIRE. March 31, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- Wilson, Mark (December 11, 2017). "Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research". The Conversation. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- "Scholastica". Research Information. February 9, 2018. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
Further reading
- Lippincott, Sarah Kalikman (2017). Library as Publisher: New Models of Scholarly Communication for a New Era. Against the Grain. doi:10.3998/mpub.9944345. ISBN 978-1-941269-16-9. Retrieved February 20, 2018.