Scholastica is conducting a survey on ‘The State of Journal Production and Access’ among scholarly societies, university presses, and university libraries that publish one or more journals independently. In the world of academic journal publishing, change has traditionally occurred gradually. However, as new digital publishing standards and expectations have become more prevalent in recent years, the pace has started to pick up. Two areas of publishing that are undergoing significant evolution are production and access.
From expanding article formatting and metadata needs to open access mandates — there are many production and access factors publishers are considering that impact overall publishing processes and models. For scholarly societies, university presses, and university libraries independently publishing one or more journals, the changing landscape presents many opportunities as well as challenges.
Knowing where journals stand in relation to other publishing organisations and deciding what to prioritise with limited resources is no easy feat.How are scholarly society and university publishers approaching production and access now? And what are their future priorities? To help gather collective insights in these areas, Scholastica has conducted a survey on ‘The State of Journal Production and Access.’ Scholastica will use the results of this survey to generate an openly available report on the state of production and access among societies and university publishers.
Scholastica has launched this survey because production and access are two areas of journal publishing that are undergoing some of the most significant changes, and where it believes collective insights will be useful for journal programs and stakeholders in the publishing community. Production and access are also converging more in recent initiatives like Plan S, which not only calls for open access to research but also digital production standardisation and best practices for expanded article usage and indexing potential.
‘The State of Journal Production and Access Survey’ questions span core production and access areas, including: Article typesetting/layout processes and priorities, Metadata tagging processes and priorities, and OA journal development approaches and funding models.
Scholastica has kept all questions on the topics of production and access separate to avoid conflating questions/responses within the different topic areas. The final survey report will also have separate sections for the topics of production and access.
‘The State of Journal Production and Access Survey’ will be open now through May 29, 2020. The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete. At the end of the survey, there is an option to include an email address to have the final report sent directly when it’s available. The contact information is not required to complete the survey and will not be included in the published results.
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