The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law in May 2018. Aries has reviewed the regulation’s implications and taken steps to help Editorial Manager® journals implement compliance. Read more about GDPR plus view a helpful FAQ sheet.
To support continued growth, Aries completed an office move earlier this year! The new office is less than a mile up the road from Aries’ prior location in North Andover, Massachusetts, the new space will be home to future chapters of innovation! Visit the website for more photos, our address, and to learn more about Aries’ new home in a refurbished mill building!
Company of Biologists recently announced the launch of preLights, a curated, aggregated resource for Preprint highlight discovery. CoB will host the content, which will be derived from preprints posted to bioRxiv. preLights features a summary of each preprint, the reasons it was selected and the selector’s thoughts on its significance. CoB uses Aries’ ProduXion Manager for production tracking. Read more.
Over 100 journals using Editorial Manager collect contributor roles during submission via the CRediT Integration (with useful reports). Contributor roles increase transparency and help confirm that contributors of research output receive appropriate recognition for their work. These journals include PLOS One, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Giga Science, and many more.
Building out a suite of resources to share with your Author community? This newly released video walks Authors through five efficient tips meant to optimize their experience within the system. Contact marketing@ariessys.com to request an embed code today!
Publishing in the changing climate of the research ecosystem is the theme of the 2018 CSE Annual Meeting. The meeting is being held in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 5-8. Aries staff will be on hand as sponsors, exhibitors, and moderators. Aries customers will also be among those actively participating to share knowledge with industry colleagues. These are the presentations you won’t want to miss!
Implementing Standards: A Review of ORCID, CRediT and CHORUS – Lineup includes Aries Director of Product Management Tony Alves, as well as Alice Meadows of ORCID, Howard Ratner of CHORUS, and Tom Pacific from Wolters Kluwer.
Emerging Standards: Harmonizing Data and Data Exchange – Aries Director of Product Management Tony Alves will moderate and present, with Crossref’s Patricia Feeney and Shelley Stall of the American Geophysical Union also presenting.
Improving Author Experience – Lineup includes Siobhan Aldridge of Taylor and Francis presenting on Author Submission Portals (powered by EM Ingest), and Lindsay Morton of PLOS on Author Services. Other presenters include ACS’ Direct Correct, and IEEE’s use of Overleaf.
New Innovations to Peer Review – Lineup includes JBJS’ Christina Nelson presenting Xtract, the new Editorial Manager submission interface capable of metadata extraction, also Tim Houle creator of StatReviewer.
To read more about these and other CSE sessions, view the program agenda.
ISMTE’s Asian Pacific Conference is March 27 – 28 in Singapore. Topics include nurturing author communities, working with preprint servers, standards and persistent identifiers, a COPE workshop, and ample opportunity to network with industry colleagues.
Beginning in version 15.0, StatReviewer joins the comprehensive list of decision support tools integrated into Editorial Manager. StatReviewer analyzes the statistical and reporting integrity of scholarly manuscripts. Integration into Editorial Manager means that Editors and Reviewers benefit from automatic and comprehensive analysis at their fingertips. Read more about StatReviewer or view the FAQ.
A record number of industry professionals participated in EEMUG 2018 last month. Review presentations from the meeting.
