CHICAGO, IL (June 13, 2023) — Scholastica, a leading academic journal publishing software provider, has announced CRediT Taxonomy support across its products and services in line with ANSI/NISO guidelines. The CRediT Taxonomy, which consists of 14 research contributor roles, helps facilitate transparency around research development processes and ensure proper acknowledgment of all contributors.
With the new CRediT implementation, journals using Scholastica’s peer review system can request to have CRediT fields added to their submission form, and those using Scholastica’s production service and/or open access publishing platform will now see the option to input CRediT details when submitting typesetting requests and preparing articles for publication.
Scholastica generates JATS XML bibliographic metadata, including CRediT contribution inputs, for articles submitted via its peer review system, typeset by its production service, and/or hosted via its OA publishing platform and adds CRediT details to the body of articles typeset by its production service. Journals subscribed to multiple Scholastica products can import metadata, including CRediT inputs, from one solution to another to save time.
“Scholastica has been following CRediT since the concept emerged in 2014. When CRediT became an ANSI/NISO standard last year, we knew we wanted to implement it for our users,” said Scholastica CEO and Co-Founder Brian Cody. “CRediT is key to ensuring all research contributions are reflected and recognized in the increasingly complex and interconnected research world to promote transparency, trust, diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Speaking to Scholastica’s CRediT implementation, NISO CRediT Standing Committee Co-Chair Liz Allen, who is Director of Strategic Initiatives at F1000, said, “it’s great to see Scholastica join the many journal publishers and software providers using CRediT to integrate contributor roles into their workflows. CRediT can help to make a real difference in how we understand and value all the essential contributions to research beyond traditional author lists.”
The CRediT implementation, which is available to Scholastica users at no additional cost, is part of Scholastica’s efforts to enable scholarly organizations to publish standards-aligned journals with rich metadata as efficiently and affordably as possible so they can further their missions.
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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.
Website: scholasticahq.com
About NISO: NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute.
Website: niso.org
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