Scholastica is a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated

peer review Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

and

open access publishing Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

tools.

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 The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. In May 2014, Scholastica acquired $510,000 in seed funding from investors.

Product

Scholastica offers two main products: Peer review software and Open Access publishing software. Scholastica customers include journals in the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

, and

STEM Stem or STEM may refer to: Plant structures * Plant stem, a plant's aboveground axis, made of vascular tissue, off which leaves and flowers hang * Stipe (botany), a stalk to support some other structure * Stipe (mycology), the stem of a mushro ...

, as well as student-run

law review A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also pro ...

Academic publishing

In March 2016

Discrete Analysis ''Discrete Analysis'' is a mathematics journal covering the applications of analysis to discrete structures. ''Discrete Analysis'' is an arXiv overlay journal, meaning the journal's content is hosted on the arXiv. History ''Discrete Analysis'' ...

, an

arXiv arXiv (pronounced "archive"—the X represents the Greek letter chi ⟨χ⟩) is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not peer review. It consists of ...

overlay journal An overlay journal or overlay ejournal is a type of open access academic journal, almost always an online electronic journal (ejournal), that does not produce its own content, but selects from texts that are already freely available online. Whil ...

launched by Fields Medalist Sir Timothy Gowers, started using Scholastica for both Peer review and Open Access publishing.

Open access

Scholastica is a supporter of the

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

movement. Scholastica has worked with open access advocates like Björn Brembs, , Stevan Harnad and others to create open access resources 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”

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.

History

Product

Academic publishing

Open access

Typesetting service

References

Further reading