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We hope the start of this new year fills you with warmth and positivity. As we enter 2024, we’d like to reflect on the last three months of 2023.
We had a busy and exciting year! We launched two new software solutions, sponsored three scholarly industry events, organized and hosted four expert panels in our Best Practice Webinar Series, and collaborated with the scholarly community on multiple important topics.
In this newsletter, we invite you to explore everything we accomplished in the past quarter.
What’s New?
HighWire Press, in Collaboration with MPS Limited, Launches a New Workflow Management System, DigiCorePro
DigiCorePro, our new end-to-end workflow management platform, based on the principles of single-source publishing, integrates AI and ML-based technology to streamline submission and peer review, and helps to make the publishing process efficient. Unveiled at the Frankfurt Book Fair, we have been getting a lot of positive feedback and we invite you to explore its capabilities firsthand!
Presenting THINK365 — An Upgraded, Web-based Order Management and Fulfillment Solution
We’ve transformed our market-leading order management system, THINK, into a cutting-edge web-based e-commerce and subscription management platform, THINK365. Unveiled late last year, our Senior Product Manager, Satam Choudhury, and Senior Account Director, Meg Waites, provided an insightful walkthrough, showcasing the exciting features of THINK365 during a recent webinar.
Latest News
HighWire Upgrades American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to a Customizable Hosting Platform
HighWire recently released an upgrade of ASCE’s premier standards publication AMPLIFY on HighWire Hosting. Under the guidance of organizations like ASCE, HighWire has made major advances in how our hosting platform handles technical standards.
Events
Research integrity day
We’re thrilled to be recognized among the top 20 AI Innovators in the scholarly industry! While our CTO, and head of MPS Labs, Narendra Kumar, discussed DigiCorePro’s AI/ML capabilities, our SVP of Product Management, Tony Alves, moderated the industry project update session.
Frankfurt Book Fair
We returned to the Frankfurt Book Fair after 5 years and were greeted with a warm reception from the scholarly community. Kelly Lake and Tony Alves from our team did a learning session on Advancing Publishing Beyond the Book: AI/ML, Extended Reality, and Personalization. We invite you to check out our session recording.
Upcoming Events
BPWS — Strategies & Tools for Making eLearning Part of Your Publishing Program
HighWire’s Best Practice Webinar Series continues in 2024! In our first webinar, planned for February 7, hear from industry leaders who are working on developing educational content for professionals and learn about what works and how to do it efficiently and effectively.
HighWire Press Sets Sights on the Research to Reader Conference 2024
Our team is thrilled to participate in the Research to Reader Conference this year! The collaborative workshop will explore methods of improving the peer review process through initiatives such as post-publication review, anti-ghosting policies, reviewer transparency, etc.
NISO Plus Baltimore 2024
HighWire is excited to announce that our team of experts will be attending this year’s NISO Plus Conference centered on the themes of AI, open access, metadata, and more. Look out for our session on ‘Open Scholarship and Bibliodiversity’.
The London Book Fair 2024
We are exhibiting at this year’s London Book Fair and would love to meet you in person! Looking forward to engaging with the global publishing community and discovering the latest trends in the industry. Book a meeting slot to discuss ideas with us.
Blogs
Why Dynamic Pricing Is Essential for Publishers in the E-commerce Era?
Explore how dynamic pricing has the power to elevate operating income for scholarly and non-scholarly publishers. Expertly explained by Satam Choudhary, Senior Product Manager of THINK365 and HighWire Analytics, you can discover these strategic advantages in our latest blog post.
Disruptors Talking about Disruption
In this wrap-up blog post, Tony Alves, our SVP of Product Management, shares insights gained from the ALPSP Annual Conference. Revisiting the disruptors’ panel featuring eLife, Kudos, scite, PLOS, and DeSci Labs, the discussion delves into how collaboration with publishing industry traditions can serve as a catalyst for effective disruption.
Future of Peer Review: Diversification and Decentralization?
In this blog post, we delve into our special Peer Review Week webinar, where we examined the limitations of current peer review models and explored innovative pre- and post-publication review approaches by eLife, PREreview, and PubPeer.
Navigating the Peer Review Dilemma: Understanding Shortage and Charting the Way Forward
Reviewer fatigue and misaligned interests presents challenges for publishers in securing peer reviewers. Join us in this blog post as we explore these obstacles and propose viable solutions to address the intricacies of the peer review process.
Pain Points in Order Fulfillment in Scholarly Publishing
Managing online orders and physical inventory can be difficult. Satam and Meg, in this blog post, discuss the day-to-day challenges faced by fulfillment managers, including pricing decisions, taxation, late renewals, and much more. The blog also describes THINK365’s features that tackle these problems.
Paradigm Shifts and the Age of Adhocracy
Here, Tony Alves discusses lessons learned from two keynote sessions from the STM Meeting in Frankfurt. He talks about evolution in publishing — from papyrus scroll manuscripts to the digital versions of today. He also talks about how important it is for publishers to act as knowledge providers, and not just service providers.
Product Spotlight
Praveen Nair, product manager of DigiCorePro, highlighted the context-based commenting feature of DigiCorePro, “One of the significant innovations is that DigiCorePro provides interactive peer-review through the use of an online digital editor that allows reviewers to submit context-based comments while performing the manuscript review.”
Company Updates
Find us on social – New Bluesky Account
We are excited to announce that we are now available on Bluesky (@highwirepress.bsky.social). And yes, we are also available on Mastodon (@highwirepress@mastodon.social). We’d love to interact with you on either of these platforms!
2023 was an amazing year for HighWire, all thanks to your support and engagement! We look forward to continuing to collaborate with you and to strengthening our relationship in the year ahead. As always, if we can help with any immediate or future publishing projects you may have, please get in touch.