Each year, the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) brings together academics, librarians, publishers, researchers, service providers, technologists, and others to discuss some of the challenges, issues, and opportunities in the research information industry.
KGL marketing intern, Kate Kurtzman shares her observations on the many sides of the publishing industry, self-belief as a woman, insights into AI, and the value of networking.
The boundary that separates legitimate from dubious academic journals—and the process by which they can rapidly descend from the former to the latter group—also serves as a cautionary case in point.
Remaining competitive in today’s complicated scholarly journal landscape has never been more challenging for publishers. Confronted with rapidly evolving business models, funding constraints, growing competition and stretched resources, sustaining and growing revenue can seem like a daunting task and uphill struggle at times.
As part of the 2023 KGL PubFactory Virtual Series, on October 11 we hosted Industry Day, a half-day online seminar of insights, discussion, and practical takeaways for the scholarly publishing community.
Hiring, transitioning and onboarding an Editor-in-Chief is one of the most important yet complex and lengthy processes scholarly journals must undertake.
Successful editor-in-chief (EIC) transitions are central to achieving your journal’s editorial development goals.
Looking to the year ahead once again, the KGL experts across book and journal publishing, scholarly and education markets, technology and business development, weigh in to highlight some of the industry trends we expect will be prominent in 2023.
Globalization is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a new trend. For decades, our world has steadily become more interconnected and, without doubt, this is a pattern that is set to continue long into the future.
