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

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

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Product
* 3 Academic publishing
* 4 Open access
* 5 Typesetting service
* 6 References
* 7 Further reading

## 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 of 2014, Scholastica acquired $510,000 in seed funding from investors.[2][3]

## Product

Scholastica offers two main products: Peer review software and Open Access publishing software. Scholastica customers include journals in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM, as well as student-run law reviews.[4]

## 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.[5]

## Open access

Scholastica is a supporter of the open access movement. Scholastica has worked with open access advocates like Björn Brembs[6], Ulrich Herb, Stevan Harnad and others to create open access resources[7] 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”[8]

## Typesetting service

In February 2018, Scholastica launched a new typesetting service for open access journals that uses technology to generate HTML and PDF articles from DOCX files.[9]

## References

1. ↑ Strahler, Steven (May 31, 2014). "Trying to disrupt the high price of academic publishing". Crain's Business. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140531/ISSUE01/305319938/trying-to-disrupt-the-high-price-of-academic-publishing/.
2. ↑ Chaney, Keidra (May 15, 2014). "Scholastica snags $510,000 to modernize academic publishing". Built In Chicago. https://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/scholastica-acquires-510000-seed-funding.
3. ↑ "Scholastica Crunchbase Profile". Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/scholastica.
4. ↑ Shepherd, Cameron (October 13, 2017). "#FoundersFriday with Brian Cody from Scholastica". Digital Science. https://www.digital-science.com/blog/tech/foundersfriday-brian-cody-scholastica/.
5. ↑ Knudson, Kevin (April 30, 2016). "The Future Of Mathematics Publishing: An Interview With Sir Timothy Gowers". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2016/04/30/the-future-of-mathematics-publishing-an-interview-with-sir-timothy-gowers/#7d19795d68b9..
6. ↑ Brembs, Björn (November 29, 2017). "Is A Cost-Neutral Transition To Open Access Realistic?". Björn Brembs Blog. http://bjoern.brembs.net/2017/11/is-a-cost-neutral-transition-to-open-access-realistic/.
7. ↑ "Scholastica White Paper Calls for Democratized Journal Publishing". OpenAIRE. March 31, 2017. https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1861.
8. ↑ Wilson, Mark (December 11, 2017). "Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research". The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392.
9. ↑ "Scholastica". Research Information. February 9, 2018. https://www.researchinformation.info/product/scholastica.

## Further reading

* Lippincott, Sarah Kalikman (2017). "Library as Publisher: New Models of Scholarly Communication for a New Era". Against the Grain. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cb/mpub9944345/1:6/--library-as-publisher-new-models-of-scholarly-communication?rgn=div1;view=fulltext.

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