Recurring Report from KGL Consulting Compares Editorial Compensation Data from Dozens of Journals Across a Broad Range of Disciplines

KGL Consulting, the scholarly publishing consultancy arm of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), has formally announced the opening the 2024 edition of its Editorial Compensation Benchmark Study, designed to provide a basis of comparison for remuneration across journal editorial office positions. The 2024 report will be offered at no cost, but only to participating organizations.

The study is open to peer-reviewed scholarly journals that primarily publish original research. The final report to be distributed in November will identify the current low, medium, and high ranges of compensation for editor-in-chief and associate editor positions (including related positions such as deputy editor, section editor, and statistical editor). KGL will provide breakouts according to broad journal categories (medical/basic science/social science), journal Impact Factor, submissions, acceptance rate, and other relevant covariates. The report will also address areas that may impact journal operations and budgets such as evolving editorial position responsibilities and policies related to research integrity.

Since 2011, KGL Consulting has gathered and reported editorial compensation data to scholarly journal publishers who sponsored data collection efforts for a fee. The 2024 report is provided gratis, conditioned only on recipients also contributing to the study by sharing their anonymized compensation data. KGL will ensure confidentiality via non-disclosure agreements.

Cara Rivera, Vice President, Consulting and Market Analysis at KGL commented, “Change is accelerating across the journal publishing industry—and nowhere has the effect been more profound than in the editorial offices of scholarly journals. Our industry-leading report helps stakeholders set fair and thoughtful compensation policies for key editorial positions that reflect this shifting landscape. By accessing these data-driven insights at no charge, participating organizations can expect to make the widest possible comparisons to remain competitive in their respective fields.”

KGL is enrolling new participants in its 2024 Editorial Compensation Benchmark Study through July 26, 2024. Interested contributors are encouraged to submit a survey participation inquiry at www.kwglobal.com/compensation-study.

About KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) is the premier industry provider of editorial, peer review, production, management consulting, online hosting, and transformative solutions for every stage of the content lifecycle. KGL serves the STEM/HSS, educational publishing, and eLearning markets from content creation through distribution of print and digital products. A division of CJK Group, Inc., KGL unites content and technology expertise with over 200 years of experience serving the publishing market and is powered by state-of-the-art, intelligent solutions and delivery platforms including Smart Suite and PubFactory. For more information, please visit www.kwglobal.com.

Contact Mike Groth, Director of Marketing, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., mike.groth@kwglobal.com

Audet brings strategy and vision as editorial director; Hindley promoted to senior editor to head the Art, Architecture, and Design portfolio

2024 brings exciting changes to the book acquisitions team at the MIT Press. In January, Janice Audet (formerly executive editor at Basic Books) assumed the role of editorial director bringing more than 20 years of experience in publishing, particularly in trade science. Building on the Press’s mission and reputation for innovation, Audet launched an ambitious strategic program for acquisitions editors to better meet the needs of the Press’s academic, professional, and trade markets today and advance knowledge that will best serve its readership in future.

To expand upon the MIT Press’ legacy of excellence and innovation in art and architecture publishing, a new Art, Architecture, and Design (AAD) portfolio has been created, focusing on publishing leading authors with contemporary cultural relevance. Newly promoted Senior Editor Victoria Hindley will assume leadership of the new portfolio. Audet says, “Victoria’s 25 years of publishing experience in art, visual culture, design, and architecture, along with her proven success and cultivated partnerships make her a natural fit for this exciting portfolio. I have every confidence we have the ideal team to catalyze this vision.”

Hindley joined the MIT Press in 2016 after working in publishing and the arts for two decades in both the USA and Europe. She has developed numerous international publications including limited fine press editions by Salman Rushdie and Wole Soyinka. At the MIT Press, Hindley has published award-winning titles including A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt; Architectures of Spatial Justice by Dana Cuff; and The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change by Manuel Lima.
Senior Editor Victoria Hindley.

“Readers come to the MIT Press seeking books that will transform the way they see the world. In turn, I seek bold and exceptional writing that is culturally relevant and responsive to contemporary global urgencies,” said Hindley.

In the coming year, the MIT Press looks forward to publishing such engaging AAD titles as Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury by Jordan Troeller, Abundance Not Capital: The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo edited by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, and Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration by Jonas Staal.

For Hindley, it is important that this new publishing portfolio befits the Press’s internationally acclaimed legacy that began in the 1960s with influential titles such as The Bauhaus by Hans Wingler, while expanding the boundaries of the fields. “It is essential for the portfolio to examine how art, architecture, and design impact our lives and shape our perception of the world.”

In an ambitious move to democratize access to scholarly knowledge and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), the De Gruyter eBound Foundation is thrilled to unveil UPLOpen.com, a product of University Press Library Open (UPLO), an innovative website that curates high-quality, open access scholarship from the world’s leading university presses.

UPLOpen.com is a direct response to the growing demand for open access scholarship and the urgent need to address the global challenges identified in the UN SDGs. All books are free to read online or download, and UPLOpen.com’s emphasis on the SDGs underscores the distinctive dedication of university presses to integrate the SDGs’ expansive targets into their day-to-day operations and structure.

“Publishing books of global importance is central to the DNA of university presses,” said Peter Potter, Executive Director of De Gruyter eBound. “Finding those books, however, can be a challenge amidst the noise of the internet. Our goal with UPLOpen.com was to create a welcoming place on the web where people could go to find authoritative research from the world’s top university presses. This initiative is a testament to the collective power of the academic community’s commitment to fostering positive change, inclusivity, and sustainability worldwide.”

At launch, UPLOpen.com proudly hosts more than 350 open access books from over thirty university presses, including two landmark collections: Luminos, from the University of California Press, and TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), a pilot project of the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUPresses), which concluded in 2022 but continues to release new titles. By mid-2024, the number of titles hosted on UPLOpen.com is expected to exceed 2,500, with further plans for significant growth already in motion for 2025 and beyond.

UPLOpen.com platform is committed to open principles and practices; and is fully optimized to support digital-first, open content distribution. Developed in collaboration with Ubiquity, a trusted partner of researchers, universities, and academic societies, UPLOpen.com utilizes open-source infrastructure, which benefits the broader open-source community.

According to Ubiquity CEO Brian Hole, “UPLOpen.com is unique in its integration of the SDGs into the core of academic publishing, underscoring our commitment to both advancing scholarship and contributing to a sustainable and equitable world. UPLOpen.com is also designed to catalyze a shift to open access among traditional university presses by offering them not only a high-quality online platform but also a range of professional publishing services tailored to effective OA publishing.”

About De Gruyter eBound De Gruyter eBound champions the publication and enduring viability of scholarly monographs with a mission-centric approach aimed at nonprofit and open access publishers to broaden the reach of these works to a global audience. Established in 2022 by respected international publisher De Gruyter, eBound oversees the University Press Library Open (UPLO) funding and coordinates UPLO’s multiple stakeholders, ranging from publishers and libraries to vendors, funders, and authors.

About Ubiquity Ubiquity is a leading provider of open publishing services covering the entire research lifecycle. Ubiquity provides open access journal and book publishing for academic societies, as well as full publishing infrastructure and services to university presses.

Scholastica announces the release of a new free “Peer Review System Migration Toolkit” to help journal publishers and editors navigate the process of adopting or changing peer review software.

The Toolkit, which is software agnostic to support teams moving to any peer review system, features:

The Peer Review System Migration Handbook: A comprehensive guide to establishing a software transition plan, spanning best practices for project management, software requirements assessment, data cleaning and transfer, onboarding new users, and more

The Migration Coordination Checklist: An interactive planning spreadsheet that includes the core phases of a successful peer review system transition, associated action steps, and task-tracking columns

The Migration Coordination Checklist can also be adapted to Kanban-style project management tools like Trello and includes instructions to do so.

After selecting peer review software, the hardest part of the transition process for so many publishers and editors is getting started. “The Peer Review System Migration Toolkit” is designed to help journal teams kick off migration planning and implementation with minimal disruptions to editorial operations, including tips for achieving desired workflow improvements in their new system.

The Peer Review System Migration Toolkit is free to download at: https://lp.scholasticahq.com/peer-review-system-migration-toolkit/ 

For more information, please contact support@scholasticahq.com.

About Scholastica Scholastica is a technology solutions provider with easy-to-integrate software and services for every aspect of publishing academic journals — from peer review to production to hosting and discovery support. Our mission is to empower scholarly organizations to make quality research available more efficiently and affordably in order to facilitate a sustainable research future. Over 1,000 journals across disciplines use Scholastica.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced the election of international intellectual property and artificial intelligence (AI) law expert Dr. Daniel J. Gervais to its Board of Directors.

Gervais currently serves as the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he is also director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program and co-director of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program. He is a member of the American Law Institute, serving as Associate Reporter on the Restatement of the Law Copyright Project.

“AI-related advancements will be strengthened by relying on responsibly sourced copyrighted works,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “As an expert in copyright law and collective licensing, Dr. Gervais’ insights will be a significant addition to CCC’s Board as we create licensing solutions that meet the needs of technology companies, users of copyrighted works, creators, and publishers with regard to AI.”

Gervais previously worked for 10 years researching and addressing policy issues as a legal officer at the World Trade Organization (WTO), head of the Copyright Projects section of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), deputy secretary general of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), and vice-chair of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO). Before joining the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2008, Gervais served as acting dean and vice-dean for research of the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. In 2012, he was the Gide Loyrette Nouel Visiting Chair at Sciences Po Law School in Paris and became the first North American law professor admitted to the Academy of Europe. Before entering the academy, he practiced law as a partner with the technology law firm BCF in Montreal, was a consultant with the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, served as a visiting professor at international universities, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. Gervais became president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) in 2017 and was a Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Carleton University in 2022. He is the first Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Information Law (IvIR) of the University of Amsterdam.

Gervais is the author of The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, a leading guide to the text that governs international intellectual property rights and recently published an article entitled “Collective Licensing and AI.” He was also a featured panelist on CCC’s February 2024 LinkedIn Live Town Hall event, “The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs,” where he discussed technical and legal aspects of the use of copyrighted content in AI systems. His work was published in Science, several leading law reviews, and other peer-reviewed publications. In 2023, he also published a legal sci-fi story entitled Forever.

Founded in 1978, CCC provides copyright licensing solutions, information services, and cloud software and is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) workplace. CCC’s DEI Employee Resource Group launched a pilot Girls Who Code team at the elementary school level in 2023 and piloted the first chapter north of Boston last year. CCC is a member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC), whose mission is to accelerate innovation, growth, and development of an inclusive tech ecosystem in Massachusetts, and is also a member of the North Shore Juneteenth Association, an emerging 501 (c)(3) organization of community leaders creating awareness about Juneteenth, educating the community about positive aspects of Black American culture, and dismantling racism by using events and programming as tools of change. CCC was honored as a national 2024 Top Workplace by USA Today. In 2023, the Boston Globe named CCC a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts and a Top 100 Women-Led Business in Massachusetts.

To learn more about CCC and to view available job openings, visit https://www.copyright.com/company-careers/.

About CCC A pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC advances copyright, accelerates knowledge, and powers innovation. With expertise in copyright, data quality, data analytics, and FAIR data implementations, CCC and its subsidiary RightsDirect collaborate with stakeholders on innovative solutions to harness the power of data and AI.

We are delighted to announce that we have signed an exclusive agreement with Prenax, the world’s largest European-owned subscriptions management partner, to represent us in Spain.

This new partnership offers opportunities to expand our Read & Publish initiative in Spain and benefit the academic community to publish their research fee-free and immediately Open Access in our leading peer-reviewed journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open.

The Company of Biologists and the Prenax team will both be exhibiting at REBIUN, the University of Jaén, Spain, from 22-24 May 2024.

Rich Blount, Regional Sales Manager at The Company of Biologists, says:

“We look forward very much to working with Prenax as our exclusive representative in Spain to build on the success of our Read & Publish Open Access initiative. We are confident that Prenax’s excellent relationships with libraries, plus their ability to provide top quality local support, will enable more researchers in Spain to benefit from uncapped, immediate, and fee-free OA publishing in our journals through Read & Publish agreements.”

Leonor Silva, Country Manager at Prenax Spain, says:

“By partnering with The Company of Biologists through Read & Publish agreements, Prenax will play a key role in supporting open science initiatives across Spanish academic institutions. This collaboration enables The Company of Biologists to expand its reach and impact within the library and research community, facilitating researchers to publish Open Access articles in five leading peer-reviewed journals. This partnership enhances support to libraries and research communities while offering a personalized service to our institutional customers. This agreement allows us to promote the growth of published articles, providing a cost-neutral model that offers excellent value to universities. Furthermore, by enabling researchers to publish Open Access articles, the agreement contributes to the advancement of scientific knowledge while aligning with the principles of Open Access publishing and equitable dissemination of research findings.

In summary, this partnership with The Company of Biologists represents a strategic opportunity for Prenax to contribute to the growth and development of the biological sciences community in the region and enhance customer service through cost-effective solutions and support for Open Access publishing initiatives.”

Read the announcement online

About The Company of Biologists The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community. We partner with libraries and library consortia to enable biologists worldwide to access our leading peer-reviewed hybrid journals — Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology — and our fully OA journals — Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

We also have a long-standing and ongoing commitment to Open Access. Our cost-neutral Read & Publish initiative enables corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish an uncapped number of OA research articles in our hybrid journals and our two fully OA journals — without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). We were the first not-for-profit publisher to commit to the Transformative Journal approach, and our journals were the first to be awarded Transformative Journal status by Plan S. Over 850 institutions in 49 countries are now participating in our cost-neutral Read & Publish OA initiative. We also have Read & Publish agreements with many library consortia.

Learn more about our new bio-positive publishing initiative, The Forest of Biologists.

Contact Rich Blount, Regional Sales Manager | richard.blount@biologists.com | biologists.com/read-publish | @Co_Biologists

Contact Leonor Silva, Prenax Spain | Leonor.silva@prenax.es | Prenax.com/es