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This week begins the latest edition of the KGL PubFactory Virtual Series user group meeting, bringing the scholarly publishing community together to share lessons learned, new platform developments, and industry insights. To mark the occasion, we welcome PubFactory’s new UK-based Senior Project Manager, Merryn Smit to the team, following her time in digital content and production roles at Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis. KGL spoke to her recently about moving from the publisher to vendor side, challenges publishers face with digital content, and embracing change.

Read more on the KGL blog: Knowledge Sharing: 5 Minutes with Merryn Smit, Senior Project Manager at KGL PubFactory

Platform Services Director, Tom Beyer gives us an idea of what to expect at this year’s user group meeting

The PubFactory online hosting platform, established in 2010, has been holding an annual customer meeting—either in-person or virtual—for many years. This eagerly anticipated event is one of the great benefits of belonging to the PubFactory community and continues under ownership of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL).

Once again, from October 13-15, over 60 scholarly publishing stakeholders will convene a three-day Virtual Series to share knowledge, hear from platform partners and industry experts, and learn the latest developments in the PubFactory roadmap during a variety of information-packed and interactive remote sessions. Recently, KGL’s Mike Groth asked platform co-founder and technical lead, Tom Beyer what we can expect this year.

Read more on the KGL blog: Preview: KGL PubFactory Virtual Series 2021

With the accelerated global consumption of video content, the publishing industry cannot ignore the opportunities to capitalize on its popularity, attraction, and reach. Trade, educational, and academic publishers are embracing YouTube channels, ed tech innovations, and peer-reviewed media in keeping with the times to enhance their content and user experience.

Read more on the KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. blog: The Meteoric Rise of Video Content.

SiteGen Module and integration with Cadmore Media platform offer publishers new delivery options and an enhanced user experience

Boston, MA—June 8, 2021—KGL PubFactory, a division of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), has added advanced support for video content to its online hosting platform, providing scholarly publishers with new opportunities to modernize their content offering while adapting media assets for academic audiences.

The first publication to launch streaming video and transcripts via the Cadmore Media platform on its PubFactory website this July is Neurosurgical Focus: Video, part of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons’s Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG). Covering a different topic in depth each month, the groundbreaking video journal provides state-of-the-art “textbook chapters” in the field of neurosurgery. Cadmore’s fully accessible media player features advanced navigation, searching and skimming options, and support for extended metadata, in addition to fully transcribed and searchable text for video content. KGL’s production team will integrate Cadmore’s video player and transcripts into its online deliverables through a streamlined XML workflow.

At the same time, leading publisher of information on physical activity, Human Kinetics is launching a new video library alongside its 26 journals hosted on KGL PubFactory. Now live at video.humankinetics.com, the mobile-friendly companion site features 517 searchable videos and 133 images from the publisher’s Dance Technique Collection. The library was created using the platform’s SiteGen website launch module, which allows for agile product experimentation as Human Kinetics seeks to offer new enhanced teaching resources and dynamic learning tools for students. KGL’s sister company Sheridan also provides printing and distribution for the publisher’s journals, and subscriber services for both journals and video.

Jessica Lawrence-Hurt, Chief Marketing Officer at Cadmore Media, commented: “Cadmore is delighted to partner with KGL PubFactory and offer our video streaming solution to academic and professional publishers looking to augment their offering with new media assets. With advanced analytics and a fully searchable and accessible player, PubFactory publishers can deliver and measure expanded content that is inclusive while providing a better user experience for all. We look forward to supporting more video features, articles, and libraries for additional platform customers in the future.”

Gillian Shasby, Director of Publications at JNSPG, reiterated: “We are very excited to launch an entirely new site for Neurosurgical Focus: Video that will achieve the full potential of its format. Retaining a comprehensive supplier like KGL that can integrate production workflows, hosting, and network partners like Cadmore has been instrumental in refreshing our best-in-class video journal efficiently without handoffs or multiple negotiations.”

KGL’s end-to-end proposition for scholarly publishers includes project management, AI-powered language analysis and copyediting, XML composition and proofing, digital and print production, and online hosting. The PubFactory platform hosts over 1,300 journals and 300,000 books, numerous databases, and reference works.

About Cadmore Media

Cadmore Media makes publishing scholarly video easy. Our integrated streaming media technology offers societies and associations new ways to use their multimedia assets to generate revenue, engage membership, and expand reach. We specialize in conveying large amounts of technical content in multiple ways to scholarly audiences. Our video-centric platform and workflows empower you to take control of your multimedia content, apply publishing standards and apparatus, and disseminate it via the channels of your choice. Cadmore video solutions combine cutting-edge technology with customized service to deliver an end-to-end solution: from product development, workflow design, content management, product launch, and ongoing support and improvements. For more information, please visit cadmore.media.

About KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) is the premier industry provider of editorial, production, online hosting, and transformative solutions for every stage of the content lifecycle. KGL serves the journal, educational publishing, and eLearning markets from content creation through distribution of print and digital products. A division of CJK Group, Inc., KGL unites the content and technology expertise of Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning with Sheridan Journal Services and Sheridan PubFactory. The combined company brings over 200 years of experience serving the publishing market and is powered by state-of-the-art, intelligent automated solutions and delivery platforms including Smart Suite and PubFactory. For more information, please visit www.kwglobal.com and www.pubfactory.com.

Media contact: Mike Groth, Director of Marketing, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., mike.groth@kwglobal.com

To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) and just in time for #SSP2021, KGL’s latest blog takes a new look at how the reading experience is evolving for people with disabilities and how scholarly publishers are actively improving access to research—with customer examples from last year’s KGL PubFactory Virtual Series.

Read more on the KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. blog: Accessibility Fast Becoming an Essential Pillar of Scholarly Publishing

Despite arduous preparation by librarians, publishers, and vendors, content platform migrations are rarely seamless. At the recent Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) Annual Conference, KGL PubFactory’s Tom Beyer took part in a virtual panel discussion entitled “How We Work Together: Improving the Content Platform Migration Process”, alongside some of our friends and colleagues in the NISO Content Platform Migration Working Group to minimize disruption and standardize best practices.

Read the takeaways from the session on the KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. blog: Content Platform Migrations: 5 Important Lessons.