Engaging with editorial board members is a key element to running a successful journal. Providing initial onboarding training to new members supports their understanding of how the journal operates, provides guidance on what constitutes a productive review, and highlights the journal’s aims for future publications. Alongside this, editors may also receive technical support around operating […]
Peer Review: tools, training, and integration
Research integrity, artificial intelligence (AI), and peer review have become inextricably linked. The same technologies that can be used to generate content are now being put to use to safeguard it and to help identify large-scale ‘bad actors’ in the scholarly research system according to Nancy Roberts, Maverick’s Head of Technology & Content. Fortunately, publishers […]
Peer review from a researcher’s perspective
Maverick Affiliate Senior Associate, Maria Machado is co-chair of Peer Review Week 2024. In a new post for Maverick’s peer review series, Maria draws upon her extensive experience as a writer, peer reviewer, and auditor to highlight some of the peer review issues faced by researchers and editors along with her recommendations for solutions. In […]
Researcher education at SSP 2024
Maverick CEO Rebecca Rinehart presented the poster “Integrating education in the research life cycle” at last week’s SSP Annual Meeting and provides her thoughts. The SSP poster sessions were well attended and offered a variety of perspectives. Maverick’s poster highlighted a model for researcher education that can be integrated into all of the touchpoints with […]
Workflow automation and interoperability support the publishing life cycle
An automated workflow is essential to respond to the changing needs of the open access publishing landscape. Such a workflow can ensure that manuscripts are efficiently processed and published in a timely fashion while helping to ensure that safeguards are built in to maintain research and data integrity. Interoperability of all components of scholarly publishing—from […]
Integrating Researcher Education into the Research Life Cycle: A Continuum for fostering excellence in scholarly publishing
Researchers represent the core of scholarly publishing, yet many of them feel inadequately prepared to assume the increasingly complex role created for them by the current publishing environment. As scholarly publishing evolves to extend to new models, funder mandates, open scholarship, and data management, researchers must assume responsibility for new functions and processes for which […]
Insights on new publishing models from R2R 2024
Maverick Head of EMEA Business Development, Jayne Marks, attended the Researcher to Reader to Conference 2024 where she chaired the panel, Making New Models for Scholarly Communication a Reality. Jayne shares her key takeaways in this post for Insights. You can view a video recording of the session here. There is interest from across all […]
Developing a strategy with an eye to the future
Scholarly publishing is no longer “business as usual.” Succeeding in today’s rapidly changing—and challenging—publishing environment requires a strategy. Having a business strategy can help organizations focus on the things that are important to their mission and future resilience. A successful publishing strategy often requires a multifaceted approach to all aspects of the business: Workflow and […]
AI Efficiencies to Optimize Workflow from Submission to Publication: 3 Case Studies
Recently, the SSP hosted a webinar on how AI can improve efficiencies and optimise workflows in scholarly publishing. Avi Staiman (Academic Language Experts) hosted the event and was joined by key players in the industry, including Sarah Taylor (Springer Nature), Julia Kostova (Frontiers), Hong Zhou (Wiley Partner Solutions), and Dustin Smith (Hum). As you might […]
The role of AI in research integrity
Research integrity breaches present significant financial and reputational risks for publishers, as shown by the recent detection of paper mill activity in published articles, causing much upheaval in the industry. And while those outside the industry wring their hands and wonder how this could happen, those of us on the inside know that the challenges […]