Scholastica (company) explained

Scholastica
Industry:Academic Publishing
Founded:2012 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Founders:Brian Cody, Rob Walsh, and Cory Schires
Num Employees:13

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 2014, Scholastica acquired $510,000 in seed funding from investors.[2]

Product

Scholastica offers three main products: a journal peer review management system, a single-source article production service, and an open access journal publishing platform with built-in analytics and archiving and discovery service integrations. 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], 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, PDF, and full-text XML articles from DOCX files.[8]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Trying to disrupt the high price of academic publishing . Strahler . Steven . Crain's Business . May 31, 2014. December 3, 2017.
  2. Web site: Scholastica snags $510,000 to modernize academic publishing. Chaney . Keidra . Built In Chicago . May 15, 2014. February 20, 2018.
  3. Web site: #FoundersFriday with Brian Cody from Scholastica . Shepherd . Cameron . Digital Science . October 13, 2017 . December 3, 2017.
  4. Web site: The Future Of Mathematics Publishing: An Interview With Sir Timothy Gowers . Knudson . Kevin . Forbes . April 30, 2016 . December 3, 2017.
  5. Web site: Is A Cost-Neutral Transition To Open Access Realistic? . Brembs . Björn . Björn Brembs Blog . November 29, 2017 . February 20, 2018.
  6. Web site: Scholastica White Paper Calls for Democratized Journal Publishing . OpenAIRE. March 31, 2017 . February 20, 2018.
  7. Web site: Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research . Wilson . Mark . The Conversation. December 11, 2017 . February 20, 2018.
  8. Web site: Scholastica . Research Information . February 9, 2018 . February 20, 2018.

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