This is the seventh interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.
Want to start your own open-access journal? Find out more today as I speak with Rob Walsh of Scholastica, a new journal publishing platform. Scholastica aims to make open access feasible for existing and new journals by charging a small $10 fee when an author submits to a journal. This fee can be paid by the author, journal, or an institution that would like to pay on behalf of its authors. The article, if accepted and published, will be made freely available on the web. Scholastica now works with theUniversity of Chicago Law Review, the California Law Review, and smaller journals such as the Strategic Leadership Review.
AK: Thanks Rob for talking to me today. To begin: is Scholastica a “publisher” per se?
RW: Scholastica is an end-to-end platform for publishing journals, so not a publisher itself but rather a tool to improve scholarly publishing. You can think of Scholastica as a tool for journals like WordPress or Tumblr is a tool for blogs. Our mission is to put control of scholarly publishing back in the hands of scholars, not large corporate publishers.
Read the full interview at Chronicle of Higher Education.
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