Grow your scholarly journals: webinar series

Looking for strategies to enhance your journal publishing technology stack and increase the reach of your content? This webinar series is for you! You can register to watch the recording of any of the sessions below:

On-demand webinars:

• How Can Smaller-Sized Journal Publishers Get More Out of Software?: New Report Roundtable

• How to Get a Journal Indexed in PMC: What You Need to Know

• Demonstrating Broader Journal Impact: New Opportunities With Altmetrics
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Improve your journal tech stack

During this webinar, members of Scholastica and Maverick Publishing Consultants’ teams met with editorial managers who participated in our 2025 “Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers” survey to discuss solutions to tackle the top technical challenges and priorities surfaced in the survey report, including:

> Shifting software from a cost-center into an engine for operational efficiency

> Criteria for weighing configuration versus customization in software decisions to mitigate development costs

> Assessing the ROI of AI automation solutions, with a focus on research integrity checks


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Apply for PMC indexing

This webinar featured a step-by-step presentation on how to apply to PMC, followed by a panel discussion with editors who successfully added journals to PMC, spanning their application experiences and lessons learned. At the end of the session, you'll have a thorough understanding of:

> How to ensure a journal fulfills all the technical requirements for PMC

> When to apply for PMC indexing and what to expect during the application process

> Ways to improve PMC indexing outcomes once admitted to the database

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Expand your journal impact

During this webinar, Kathryn Weber-Boer, Director of Scientometric Researcher Engagement at Digital Science, shared the latest ways journals can leverage altmetrics data to demonstrate and grow the impact of their content. Her presentation included:

> An overview of how altmetrics work and the evolution of altmetrics up to this point

> New tracking options from Altmetric to help publishers and scholars tell more complete impact stories

> Examples of ways journals can leverage altmetrics to showcase broader impact and improve publication planning

Brought to you by 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 1,300 journals across disciplines use Scholastica.