2021-09-21 Meeting notes

Intro Song

• https://youtu.be/s_-QRNVbNM8

Announcements

N/A

Scholastica Presentation at 11:15am

Erin from Scholastica

“Empower journal providers” - a platform, which is modular for three products:

1. Peer Review

2. Typesetting

3. Open Journal Accessing

(A model for 3rd party vendor for publishing ideas?)

From former conversations:

1. You can watch a 1-minute video about Scholastica peer review platform here and a 3 -minute video about our publishing and typesetting platform here

2. Open Access Publishing

    on Scholastica includes:

   1. Responsive design that works across all devices: mobile, tablets, and desktop

   2. Google Scholar inclusion

   3. Metadata included to help with discoverability

   4. Blogging available to help journals build an online profile

   5. Publishing analytics to track journals most viewed and downloaded articles, where your readers are coming from, etc.

3. Scholastica's Typesetting Service

    includes:

   1. Beautiful HTML + PDF articles + XML (for indexing)

   2. Embedded videos & equations are supported

   3. 1 week turnaround time

   4. View an example article here

4. Also, you might be interested in some of the built in analytics for peer review and OA publishing.

Pricing:

• Peer review submission platform - $10 USD per new submission with a yearly fee of $250 USD. You can learn more about pricing at https://scholasticahq.com/pricing

• Open Access Publishing - $99 USD a month billed annually ($1188 USD)

  • Examples: 

    • Survey Practice

    • Internet Mathematics

    • Houston Law Review

    • The Open Journal of Astrophysics

    • Bond Law Review

• Typesetting - $5 per 500 words and $7 per table/figure

Website Demo

Facilitators

• https://spaces.calstate.edu/

  • Thoughts/feedback so far?

    • Documentation vs. Projects (Creative Commons licensing - local campus specific documentation, within the spotlight on models/staging area)

      • General place for links out

      • Support people for OJS contact list is on OJS.

    • Environmental Scan; local contacts for network for the ‘digital projects.'

    • COLD approval is in October potential, to use the current library site.

Open Access Documentation

Facilitators

• What more documentation is of interest? What materials do people want to work on/need to have as support materials?