Scholastica (company)

For the children's book publisher, see Scholastic Corporation.

Scholastica is a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated peer review and open access publishing tools.

Scholastica

Industry	Academic Publishing
Founded	2012 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Founders	Brian Cody, Rob Walsh, and Cory Schires
Number of employees	13
Website	scholasticahq.com

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] Ulrich Herb [de], 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]

References

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