Is the SWORD Protocol of Interest to Journals?

SWORD is a UK, JISC-funded initiative to define and develop a standard mechanism for depositing content (e.g. author manuscripts) into Institutional Repositories (IRs). The Aries product management team would like to know your opinions about the SWORD protocol. Would you like to see it supported in journal workflow? Are authors asking for this feature? At what point would you make the deposit? Send an email to marketing@edmgr.com with your opinions.

Jason Roberts from Origin Editorial Comments on Use of Editorial Manager

Jason Roberts and Diane Rotherock are co-founders of Origin Editorial, a Massachusetts company that provides editorial services to several journals including the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology. Through direct management, consultancy and training, Origin Editorial ensures that editorial offices work optimally at the critical points that link author, reviewer, editor and publisher. Commenting on his growing experience with Editorial Manager, Jason observed, “The system provides excellent facilities for reviewer management, and automated image checking works really well!” Journals wishing to know more about the services provided by Origin Editorial should send an email to admin@origineditorial.com.

Editor Discussion Forum – New Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager Feature

Editorial Manager (Version 7.3) includes a new facility that allows editors to collaboratively discuss manuscripts in an interactive discussion forum. Multiple editors can be invited to participate and can selectively be granted access to manuscript content, decision letters and reviewer comments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To learn more about this functionality please contact Aries at marketing@edmgr.com.

Asian-based Journal of Interventional Gastroenterology to Deploy Editorial Manager

The Journal of Interventional Gastroenterology is co-edited by William S.C. Chao, M.D. of the Hong Kong Society of Digestive Endoscopy, Hong Kong, and Zhao-Shen Li, M.D. of Changhai Hospital, Shanghai. Using Editorial manager will increase the journal’s ability to solicit and process manuscripts from throughout the world. Active manuscript processing is available at http://www.edmgr.com/jig.

Preprint Manager Production Tracking Provides More Workflow Control for Ophthalmology Publisher

Since Wichtig Editore deployed Editorial Manager in 2007, the Milan based publisher has experienced an increase in both the quantity (50%) and quality of submissions. To help manage the increase, the publisher deployed Preprint Manager approximately nine months ago. According to Lucia Steele, Publisher at Wichtig Editore, using PM has “significantly improved and speeded up our production workflows.” Observing that all communication, co-ordination and workflow control is undertaken in the system, she added “We can now more easily see which task is behind schedule and where the snag is. Before, you never knew exactly which job in production was behind the schedule”. Contact marketing@edmgr.com for a demonstration of Preprint Manager Production Tracking.

American Meteorological Society Selects Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager

The American Meteorological Society and Aries Systems are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to deploy Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager for all the journals published by the Society. Founded in 1919, the AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 and publishes eleven atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic journals. Ken Heideman, Director of Publications at the AMS, commented, “Our journals are founded on a rigorous peer review process and the end-to-end workflow package offered by Aries proved to be an excellent fit with our requirements.”