User Community

5 Ways Aries’ Client Services Team Goes Above and Beyond

Aries is committed to providing high-quality service to our user community. The Aries Client Services team delivers best-in-class support to publishers before, during and after launching their Editorial Manager® or ProduXion Manager® deployments. Whether you have just migrated from a legacy system to EM or are an EM/PM super-user, our dedicated team of experts isRead More

EMUG 2020 Webinar Series: That’s A Wrap!

With the cancellation of the 18th annual Editorial Manager User Group Meeting (EMUG 2020) due to the coronavirus pandemic, Aries Systems transitioned the program into a knowledge-packed webinar series. Although we missed seeing everyone in-person, we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to engage with our user community in a virtual environment. The five-partRead More

Free Webinar: Engaging Authors in China through the Charlesworth WeChat Gateway and Aries’ Editorial Manager®

Join Aries Systems and The Charlesworth Group for their upcoming joint webinar, Engaging Authors in China through the Charlesworth WeChat Gateway and Aries’ Editorial Manager. To accommodate our global customer-base, we will be broadcasting this presentation during two different times. Register for either our morning or afternoon session! Save the Date: Tuesday, August 18 TimeRead More

NISO Announces Approval and Publication of MECA Recommended Practice

The  National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the approval and publication of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) Recommended Practice. The Manuscript Exchange Common Approach is an industry-wide, cross-organization initiative that strives to facilitate and standardize multiple types of manuscript transfer within and between manuscript and peer review systems. Authors are often required to re-submitRead More

Free Webinar – Streamlining OA Workflows: Use Metadata to Manage APCs with Copyright Clearance Center

Aries is pleased to be featured as a guest speaker in Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC) upcoming webinar, Streamlining OA Workflows: Use Metadata to Manage APCs. This webinar will highlight how harnessing metadata and identifiers collected during manuscript submission can improve internal efficiencies and compliance with funder mandates and transformative agreements by Open Access standards, andRead More

Registration Opens for EMUG 2020 Webinar Series

Aries Systems has transitioned the 2020 EMUG program into a knowledge-packed webinar series as part of our commitment to support their dedicated user community during this unprecedented time. We understand that you can no longer physically attend our 2020 Editorial Manager User Group Meeting (EMUG) in Boston but that doesn’t mean we can’t deliver allRead More

COVID-19 Editorial Workflow Challenges: Best Practices for EM/PM Users

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to evolve, it affects each of us differently. Aries recognizes the increasing impact this has on publisher’s editorial and production operations, including an overwhelming influx of COVID-19 related manuscript submissions and constant need for available peer reviewers. Aries Systems is dedicated to providing our customers the highest level ofRead More

Aries Commemorates 200 Journals using Editorial Manager in Japan through ATLAS

Aries’ Japanese distribution partner, ATLAS Co. Ltd., is pleased to announce the adoption of Editorial Manager® for 200 journal sites to date. Journals who have recently signed on to adopt EM as their manuscript submission and peer review tracking system include Science and Technology of Energetic Materials, International Journal of Surgical Wound Care and JournalRead More

Recap of the Inaugural NISO Plus Conference (2020)

The first annual NISO Plus conference (recently merged with NFAIS) was held in Baltimore, MD at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on February 23-25. Aries was delighted to attend, sponsor, and speak at NISO Plus 2020. Aries Senior Business Systems Analyst Stacey Lavelle attended the three-day meeting and reflected on her positive experience, commenting “Many ofRead More

Postcard from EEMUG 2020

Thank you to all of the attendees who joined us in London for our 16th annual European user group meeting last week! Aries was thrilled to see many familiar faces and was excited to welcome over 20 first-time attendees this year! To kick-off the first day of EEMUG 2020, Aries Director of Product Management TonyRead More