Scholastica (company)

Academic journal platform

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

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.

## History

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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

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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

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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

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Scholastica is a supporter of the open access movement. Scholastica has worked with open access advocates like Björn Brembs,[5] Ulrich Herb, 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

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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

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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

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* 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.