Did you know? Reviewer comments can be shared in Editorial Manager

In EM, journals can optionally share reviewer identities, reviewer comments, and decision letters with other reviewers. This means that EM supports the most common “open” peer review workflows where reviewers are allowed to see each other’s comments. So as to avoid confirmation bias, journals typically only share reviewer comments at time of decision. Sharing of reviewer comments is a Role Manager permission, so please contact your Account Coordinator if you need assistance with this configuration option.

Editorial Humors

Other Editorial Humors cartoons appeared in recent newsletters.

Editorial Humors is published under a Creative Commons license that permits free republishing with appropriate acknowledgement: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en_US.

Tony Alves honored by SSP

During its 2013 Annual Meeting, the Society for Scholarly Publishing recognized Aries Systems’ Director of Product Management, Tony Alves, for his work as co-chair on the SSP Web Site Task Force. Tony, along with other task force members and a design firm, achieved the redevelopment and re-launch of www.sspnet.org. Read the full story on the SSP web site.

Photo: Then-current SSP President Carol Anne Meyer presents an award to Tony Alves.

Listen to Editorial Manager APC (Article Processing Charge) audio clip

First announced in June, a collaboration between Aries Systems and Copyright Clearance Center provides a solution for seamless Article Processing Charge (APC) management.

In this audio clip from a recent webinar, CCC’s Christopher Kenneally discusses with Aries’ Richard Wynne the emerging Open Access business problem which prompted the innovative development between the organizations.

3.5 million candidate reviewer profiles – FREE three-month trial

Reviewer Discovery, one of the powerful new v10.1 features, integrates the ProQuest Pivot™ service with Editorial Manager via an API. It allows editors to quickly generate a list of relevance-ranked candidate reviewers from a database of 3.5 million curated scholar profiles.

To activate the three-month free trial, please contact your Aries Account Coordinator or send an email to marketing@ariessys.com.

Version 10.1 began phased roll out in early August

Editorial Manager (EM) and ProduXion Manager (PM) Version 10.1 has just begun a phased release. Click here for a short list of just a few of the new enhancements and features.

Aries customers, if you would like to be notified of upgrades for your journal and receive a copy of the comprehensive release notes, please contact your Account Coordinator.

A look back at EMUG 2013

The 11th Annual U.S. Editorial Manager User Group Meeting, held in June in Cambridge, MA, was a smashing success! Thank you to all participants including Aries’ customers and speakers. Following are some attendee comments about aspects they found most helpful or enjoyable:

• “New releases updates, wish lists, I also liked the social aspect of the meeting including dinner and information sharing with other users.”
• “The Feature Workshop is always one of the most important aspects of the meeting. The overviews of the current versions and upcoming versions are also helpful for pointing out new ways to use features or for introducing new features altogether.”

Read more about EMUG and check out a few more photos on Facebook.

Save the dates – Aries Systems’ European User Group Meeting will be held in London on January 16-17, 2014 and the 2014 U.S. User Group Meeting will take place in Boston on June 19-20.

The Royal Aeronautical Society flies with Editorial Manager

Aries Systems is pleased to announce that The Aeronautical Journal, “the world’s oldest continuously-produced aeronautics journal,” has implemented Editorial Manager for manuscript submission and peer review.

Check out the journal’s submission site here: http://www.editorialmanager.com/aeroj, then click on “Journal Overview” in the navigation bar to find out more about the Royal Aeronautical Society.

LexisNexis launches Aries solutions for book management

Aries welcomes LexisNexis, legal publishing powerhouse,to its customer roll!

Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager comprise the book management system now shared by the commissioning, editorial, and production teams of LexisNexis Academic and Practitioner Book divisions across Australia and New Zealand. LexisNexis has configured EM and PM to take maximum advantage of the functionality of both systems to provide a fully integrated solution to take book projects from proposal through to print.

“The transparent and coordinated structure of Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager makes it easy to see where each element of a book is at any given point in our production process, and helps assure us that everything is progressing smoothly towards the final publication date,” said Dr. Marc K Peter, Executive Director – Commercial & Solutions at LexisNexis Pacific.