Publishers Learning & Community Exchange: A New Online Public Forum Created For Organisations Who Wish To Adopt Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing

From DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) News:

The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE) at theplace.discourse.group is a new online public forum created for organisations who wish to adopt best practices in scholarly publishing. Publishers can access information from multiple agencies in one place, ask questions of the experts and join conversations with each other.

PLACE will be particularly useful for publishers whose resources are limited (in terms of time, human and financial resources) as well as those without access to publishing networks or with little publishing experience.

This new service has been developed by a partnership of four agencies committed to working more effectively together to support the needs of the scholarly publishing community worldwide:

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Crossref
• DOAJ
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

All four organisations acknowledge that scholarly publishing can be challenging for new or under-resourced publishers. To achieve a diverse and equitable global publishing community it is critical to encourage the participation and impact of smaller, often scholar-led, publishers especially from low-income countries.

Publishers need to know where to find the right information, what policies they need to follow or international criteria they need to meet while minimising financial or technical barriers. We designed the PLACE as a ‘one-stop shop’ for publishers to ask these questions and find the support they need to adopt best practices.

Learn More, Read the Complete Announcement (via DOAJ News)

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