Harrowell partnership

Journal acquisition & transition

A considered route for journals moving into a new publishing or operational home.

The strategic context

Every journal has a history worth protecting and a future worth planning.

When a journal is changing publishing arrangements, the work is not simply commercial or technical. It affects editorial leadership, authors, reviewers, published content, data, workflows, systems and long-standing relationships. Harrowell coordinates these moving parts as one structured transition programme.

What Harrowell brings

Clarity across the whole partnership.

We connect editorial purpose, publishing delivery, technology, information and governance. That gives the people responsible for the journal a single operating view, even when the work involves multiple teams, systems or stages of change.

The engagement architecture

Structured around the work that determines a successful outcome.

Opportunity assessment

Review the journal’s scholarly position, operating context, stakeholders, published record, dependencies and potential route into a new partnership.

Transition planning

Create a practical plan for editorial communication, service handover, content and data continuity, platform readiness, responsibilities and decision points.

Implementation and stabilisation

Coordinate the move into the new operating environment, manage exceptions, support the people involved and review the service after go-live.

The partnership outcome

Built for the next stage, not only the immediate task.

Continuity for the journal community and published record
Clear accountability across the transition
A practical operating model after handover
A measured basis for long-term development

Discuss a partnership

Start with the journal, its context and the future you want to build.

Harrowell can help assess the opportunity, establish the right operating model and manage the work that follows with care and accountability.

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