The American Association of Immunologists moved more than 100 years of journal content from Highwire Press to the Silverchair platform following a well-organized and orchestrated plan that involved a network of third-party providers working with a small in-house team and a professional project manager. Maverick was selected to provide ongoing project management support of the […]
Case Study Project Management Support for Platform Migration
AIP Publishing (AIPP) connects people, ideas, and institutions across the globe through an enormous portfolio of publications, services, and tools designed to make the physical sciences more accessible for researchers and readers alike. AIPP undertook a major transition to a new platform to bring enhanced functionality to its stakeholders. This transition to the Silverchair platform […]
Case Study AI & NLP Market Analysis
A premier US-based STM publisher sought Maverick’s support in exploring the market for AI/NLP technologies with the functionality to automate parts of the manuscript submission process and determine the appropriate editorial route. Along with a technology review, Maverick conducted a broader assessment of the publishing industry to explore which options had been implemented to tackle similar […]
Case Study Productizing TDM
A leading US society sought research assistance from Maverick to develop a go-to-market strategy to efficiently and competitively productize their text and data mining (TDM) services for B2B access to their content. This approach would provide a new way to reach the academic and corporate market. It would also have the additional benefit of monetization […]
Journal Scholarly SEO
A large society publisher that recently migrated to a new platform experienced a significant loss in organic traffic compared to the performance of their previous journal sites. Following efforts to identify gaps in metadata architecture and distribution, Maverick was asked to evaluate mainstream search engine optimization to recapture organic traffic. REVIEW The project involved a […]
Silverchair Guide to Data Privacy for Scholarly Publishers
Silverchair is a leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers that builds and host websites, online products, and digital libraries for their clients’ content, enabling researchers and professionals to maximize their contributions. As most information on data privacy relevant to the scholarly publisher community had not been updated since 2018 (the year the […]
Editorial Board Diversity Seminar
A leading US STEM society and publisher wanted to kick-start a conversation about diversity in the publishing process. They were interested in exploring where bias might affect publishing decisions, what the research tells us about the challenges of achieving a diversity of authors and outputs, and the implications for scientific research. Goals The primary ambition […]
Journal Publishing Partner Review
Maverick conducted an in-depth review of a society journal to compare options for continuing with their existing publisher or to issue an RFP to assess the potential of a new publishing partnership. A part of this assessment involved reviewing competing journals to determine whether they were losing market share and, if so, what efforts could […]
Open-Source Publishing Platforms
A research organization sought to gain greater insight and understanding into various aspects of open-source software solutions that exist for the publishing of academic papers and pre-prints. The research spanned major solutions available, comparison of the risk / benefit of using commercial software vs. proprietary solutions, and costs. Specific details relating to each solution were […]
GeoScience World marketing strategy and roadmap
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a non-profit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Earth Sciences. Working with societies, institutions, and researchers around the world, GSW provides a single source of access to 50 journals, over 2,200 eBooks, and over 4 million GeoRef records. GSW reached out to Maverick to provide a 3-year Marketing […]