Did you know? You can use Editorial Manager to assign DOIs to your manuscripts.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs®) facilitate persistent identification for content objects on the Internet.

Assigning DOIs to manuscripts makes it easier for your audience to find and cite manuscripts.

Editorial Manager (EM) and Preprint Manager (PM) can be configured to automatically generate and assign DOIs, in a specified format, for your manuscripts based on specific events in the editorial workflow (for example, at manuscript acceptance). The process can be configured according to journal/publisher preference. Assigned DOIs can be “transmitted” from the system for deposit into repositories such as CrossRef.

Thinking about collecting submission fees? Think Commerce Manager!

Available as an add-on module in Editorial Manager (EM), Aries Commerce Manager (CM) seamlessly integrates e-commerce capability into your workflow. With a few mouse clicks you can activate submission fees for your journal. With a few more mouse clicks you can change the submission price, or modify the payment options. It’s never been so easy to experiment with new business models!

“Allen Press provides peer review support to a variety of STM journals. Many of those journals are receiving far more submissions than the editorial office can process; and peer review costs are rising,” says Elizabeth Garrett, Supervisor, Peer Review Support, Allen Press. “By implementing submission fees with CM for some of our customers, we’ve eliminated many of the submissions that weren’t likely to be published, and have offset the cost of peer review for those customers as well. CM was very easy to implement and requires very little work in terms of tracking.”

For more information on CM, or to see a demonstration, contact your Aries account representative.

Capture research funding sources to simplify compliance

Funding organizations such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) require deposit of funded manuscripts into content repositories. To help publishers and authors meet these obligations, Editorial Manager (EM) author questionnaires can be configured to capture funding sources during manuscript submission. This information is available downstream to trigger appropriate deposits. Author questionnaires can be tailored to article type and revision status, and there is no charge for configuration when undertaken by the journal!

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) launches inaugural publications

Earlier this fall, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundations Journals (BQFJ) selected Aries Editorial Manager (EM) to manage submissions and peer review for its newly established portfolio of high-quality, open access journals. On December 13, BQFJ released the first six (6) of those journals –Perspectives in International Librarianship, Avicenna, Aswan Heart Centre Science & Practice Series, Near and Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education, andSustainable Technologies, Systems & Policies.

During the Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin offered some inspirational words for “lift-off” of the new journals and BQFJ online content portal, www.QScience.com.

Founded in 2009, BQFJ is a unique collaboration owned by Qatar Foundation (www.qf.org.qa) and managed by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (www.bloomsbury.com).

Customers brave weather to attend 2010 European User Group meetings

Despite an inconvenient snowstorm and consequent travel problems, more than 60 attendees participated in the 2010 Aries European Editorial Manager (EM) and Preprint Manager (PM) User Group meetings, Dec 2-3 in London, England. Highlights from the meetings included the ‘feature workshops’ where customers discussed specific enhancement requests with Aries staff; an extended demonstration of EM’s new Enterprise Analytics Reporting (EAR) functionality; and guest speakers Caitlin Meadows, who spoke about processing submissions from China, and Iain Craig, who reviewed the latest developments in journal citation analysis.

We hope you’ll contact Aries with any feedback we can use to continue to improve our user group meetings. Save the date – next year’s European User Group Meeting will be held on Monday, November 28, 2011 in central London.

Chinese interface for Editorial Manager

China’s publication of scholarly manuscripts is growing faster than that of any other region in the world. Editorial Manager’s Simplified Chinese language interface for authors and reviewers offers journals a cost-effective way to reach out to Chinese authors and tap in to this fast growing source of scholarly research.

To activate the Simplified Chinese interface for your authors and reviewers, contact your Aries representative.

Edinburgh University Press chooses Editorial Manager

The Edinburgh University Press – the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals, and one of the leading university presses in the UK – recently chose Aries Editorial Manager (EM) to manage online submissions and peer review for its academic journals. EM’s ease of configurability and Aries’ reputation for customer service continue to attract and impress academic publishers of all sizes, around the world.

To learn more about Edinburgh University Press and its publications, visithttp://www.euppublishing.com.