By Sureshkumar Parandhaman, AVP Publishing Solutions and Pre-Sales, Integra
Silver sponsor of the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023.
The democratization of research, spurred by the Open Science movement, is rapidly transforming the scholarly publishing landscape. Open Science promotes unhindered access to research findings and articles for the public, and collaborative research, supported by digital tools. It fosters greater transparency in research, creating an environment conducive to the sharing of knowledge and trust through open access.
The basic tenets of Open Science are open data, open materials, open analysis, pre-registration, and open access. By increasing transparency, Open Science increases the replicability of research, bringing a systemic change to how scientific research is conducted. According to the OECD, Open Science:
- Fosters more accurate verification of research results.
- Reduces duplication in “collecting, creating, transferring, and re-using scientific material.”
- Enhances productivity, especially during times of tight budgets.
- Leads to better innovation potential and improved consumer choice.
- Promotes trust in science.
Challenges to Meeting Open Science and Open Access Requirements for Journal Publishers
While Open Science has brought multiple benefits, it has also thrown up challenges for scholarly publishers, such as increased costs and time, reduced flexibility, incompatibility with existing incentive structure, the emergence of predatory journals, high article processing fees, open access charges, and lack of funding support.
Given that the majority of authors choose a journal based on its reputation, open-access journals are at a disadvantage due to the misconception that such journals are of lower quality. However, it is important to remember that most open-access journals ensure peer reviews and uphold stringent quality standards for all their published works.
Another area of concern is that the business models of traditional publishers don't align with the compliance needs of open science and open access.
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To remain competitive against the backdrop of increasing open access, traditional publishers need to look at leveraging the power of technology to innovate and streamline with publishing process while maintaining integrity, quality, profitability, and compliance.
Intelligent Automation: A Game-Changer
Between 2012 and 2022, there has been a major shift from closed access accounting for 70% of all publishing to the open access model being adopted by 54% of publishers. An AI-powered content creation and publishing platform can bring multiple benefits for journal publishers looking to make the transition, not the least of which is intelligent automation to accelerate workflows.
Some of the key benefits that a cutting-edge technology suite offers include:
- Tracking and monitoring of detailed metadata across different publications with varied funding sources, multiple authors, etc.
- Seamless repository integrations without compromising on open access compliance.
- Capturing open access-related metadata from the inventory.
- Automating language quality checks, compliance with journal guidelines, relevance of research data and findings, etc., for faster TAT.
- Technical diagnosis to identify missing information and references, quickly and more accurately than manual checks.
- Configurable cloud-based style managers to automate XML tagging to format each manuscript to the journal’s style guide.
- Analytics capabilities to support strategic decision-making for scholarly publishers.
Revolutionizing Every Step of the Publishing Cycle
Not only does AI-powered intelligent automation optimize workflows and increase productivity, but also supports DRM by effectively monitoring and detecting fraud and copyright infringement. By transitioning to a cloud-based publishing platform that offers such automation, scholarly publishers can also enhance user experiences for authors, editors, and peer reviewers. This is possible through incredibly user-friendly features that ease moving back and forth between runs at revising and updating the manuscript to meet quality standards.
In addition, all parties can be assured of transparency, replicability, and data sharing, while complying with open access requirements. Supplementary materials can be seamlessly integrated to add value for the end reader.
Elevating Open Science and Open Access via Automation
Automation is the key to creating and publishing accessible, user-friendly Open Access content. It offers multiple tools and functionalities to speed up the content creation, editing, and peer review processes, such as assessing language quality via automated grammar checks and offering recommendations and NLP-based editing tools to facilitate guided editing to enhance quality and speed.
By automating tasks, manpower and time are freed up, leading to reduced costs and faster time to market. All these benefits are available on Integra’s full-cycle authoring and publishing platform, powered by artificial intelligence. Its rich functionalities and intuitive interface can ease your transition to producing Open Access content. Integra can transform your workflows and ensure minimal disruptions and data loss while shifting to a cutting-edge technology platform.
Integra is pleased to be a Silver sponsor of the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023.
About the author
Sureshkumar Parandhaman is a publishing professional and AVP publishing solutions at Integra, with a distinguished background in scholarly publishing, particularly in journals and books. With over 20 years of experience, he has excelled as a Product Owner, Product Manager, and Business Analyst in the publishing industry, and has diverse experience spanning Information Services, Publishing, EdTech, Healthcare, and Enterprise software
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