Consultancy services
I provide a variety of consultancy services for journal editors and publishers. My main strength is in working with mission-driven publishers and organizations to help them improve their quality, visibility and standards. The type of consultancy that I provide includes:
- Advising and working with publishers and editors to create strategic development plans for their journals and other publications
- Placing journals with publishers (writing RFPs, assisting with tenders and negotiations, supporting handover)
- Advising on editorial and other agreements
- Advice on ethical and other problems
- Research
- Facilitating meetings
- Advice and support for launching new products
Previous work has included:
- Helping several associations to move their journals to new publishing companies
- Working with a publisher to flip their entire portfolio to Open Access
- Auditing journals to identify development areas
- Assisting journals to be indexed in Medline
- Writing advice notes for a contract negotiation
- Contributing to the writing of a book on intellectual property rights
- Providing ongoing advice, support and assistance to several journals to help them develop their systems, standards and workflows
- Creating a resource guide for how to launch a new journal
- Advising on contracts and agreement forms for a large IGO publisher
- Acting as a consultant to develop a publishing training programme for an international organization
- Providing ad-hoc advice on ethical issues encountered by publishers and editors
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Learned Publishing @LearnedPublish
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Learned Publishing @LearnedPublish
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Learned Publishing @LearnedPublish
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