LAWRENCE, Kan.—December 15, 2021—Allen Press, Inc. is pleased to announce Steve Willett has joined its team as Sales Executive. Willett will focus primarily on sales development of scholarly publishing services. Willett is an experienced online and print publishing expert who comes to Allen Press with extensive knowledge of XML-based publishing workflow solutions and how to…
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LAWRENCE, Kan. – May 11, 2021 – Allen Press, Inc. and PSI Ltd. are pleased to announce a new partnership to bring theIPregistry.org to the Meridian digital publishing platform. Meridian is built on Silverchair technology with full content support from Allen Press. TheIPregistry.org is a global IP Address database for libraries and publishers that contains…
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Moving a journal from one platform to another is generally a major project for independent publishers. Cost is a major consideration, along with impact on your staff’s time and resources, all weighed against the long-term benefits to your journal publishing program. So where do you begin? We created this toolkit with five major elements to…
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One of the most significant struggles for society publishers continues to be retaining current subscribers and attracting new ones. Over the course of the past decade, scholarly journal publishers have become accustomed to stagnant subscription growth or even year-over-year declines. While there are a variety of marketing and sales strategies a publisher can implement to…
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Chances are good that you have visited a journal website that was so easy to use and provided such a seamless readership experience that you bookmarked the website for future visits. This type of experience is an example of great UX design – a facet of web design that is a key driver of digital…
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Watch the Video to Learn Tactics for Increasing the Speed of Your Publication This webinar discusses several tactics for how to increase the speed of journal publication from clear author instructions, efficient peer-review, effective staffing and more. The full transcript of this webinar is available below. Though some of the concepts presented here may be…
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Full access to Quick Abstracts on mobile devices gives researchers an easier way to find journal articles On March 21, Google Scholar announced a significant update to its mobile search platform. In an effort to enhance the mobile user experience, search results now include a Quick Abstract. This update is only applicable to mobile devices and…
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BY PETER BURNS / PUBLISHER During last week’s Charleston Conference—my first—I had a chance to attend several interesting sessions. Here, I would like to provide a recap of just one, a Thursday afternoon session titled “Is Small Beautiful? The Position of Independent Scholarly Publishers in an Environment of Rapid Industry Consolidation.” Three panelists spoke candidly…
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