• Reader Engagement Is Central To Author Experience

    Feeling the pressure at work? You’re not alone. Many of us struggle to balance workplace expectations with our own well-being. In today's post from ORIGINal Thoughts, author Randy Townsend MPS suggests that rather than let frustration take over, it’s time to Ctrl+Alt+Delete your stress.

  • The Year Ahead Ai In Scholarly Publishing 2024

    For the last year and a half, the media and publishing world have generated a lot of buzz and discussion about one particular disruptive technology—artificial intelligence (AI).

  • The Perils And Pitfalls Of Special Issues And How To Avoid Them

    Journals should prepare publicly available guidelines on the handling of special issues. Such documentation will spell out how a journal will control for ethicality and protect the validity of the peer review process.

  • Blog Getting Real With Ai

    During our recent community event, PubFactory Virtual Series: Industry Day, KGL’s Waseem Andrabi, VP of Learning Solutions, presented the different.

  • The Future of Peer Review: an Interview with Zara Manwaring, Managing Editor at Portland Press

    For Peer Review Week, KGL recently interviewed five scholarly journal editors and publishing professionals on the state of peer review in 2023.

  • Author Instructions – Simplicity Is The Name Of The Game

    Instructions can be a valuable resource, particularly if you pay attention to them. Whether you’re trying to replicate a mouthwatering recipe, assemble a holiday toy, or just use that new ‘thing’ that you’ve received, your goals are to do it quickly, do it right, and produce something valued and useful.

  • Continuous Publishing

    Since 2009 when the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) instituted the “Publish Ahead of Print” model, the ASCE Journals have been steadily moving to a new publishing model—article-based publishing, or “Issues in Progress.” In this model, instead of placing articles online in a “Just Released” section of the ASCE Library, articles are placed in “open” issues. Essentially this means that at any given time, an issue is “open” online where articles are placed until the issue closes and the next issue is opened. This allows authors to now have both the DOI and the volume and issue number of their article as soon as it is placed online. This is a big step forward for a society publisher, but how did we get here and what were the pain points of the various publishing models employed over the years?

  • Balancing Act

    Some of the most rewarding experiences in my career by far have been the close relationships I’ve established with journal editors over the years. I have found that the longer I’ve been in this business, the more these relationships have turned into partnerships—and in some cases—friendships.

  • Blog Ostp 966x644

    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.