Did you know? Reviewers can access their own performance statistics

In EM Version 10.1, reviewers can be given permission to view the record of their own “Review History” with a journal.

Upon accessing twelve categories such as Current Review Statistics, Historical Reviewer Averages, Reviewer Recommendation Summary, and Completed Reviews, reviewers have the ability to become more involved by analyzing past performance and self-regulating in the future.

If you need help configuring this feature, please contact your Aries Account Coordinator, who will be happy to assist.

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.

Do your production vendors interact with ProduXion Manager?

Journals using ProduXion Manager can automatically transfer files and metadata to and from production vendors such as copy editors and compositors, reducing the need for human intervention.

Increased adoption of PM means that a growing list of production vendors interact with PM, either manually or by using automated transfer. These vendors include Charlesworth, Dartmouth Journal Services, SPi, Newgen, Macmillan, Thomson, Aptara, TNQ, and Data Corp.

Improved issue management

Recent ProduXion Manager (PM) enhancements offer production staff even more control in organizing and manipulating components of issues, such as options for easily editing the details of scheduled groups (issues), reordering tables of contents and sections, changing page count, adding manuscript details and section headers, and more.

The upcoming PM Version 10.2 introduces “batch assignment” of production tasks. For example, editors can assign copy editing of three manuscripts to a freelancer or other production vendor at one time.

EMUG Japan 2013

In September, Aries partner Atlas Co., Ltd hosted the second annual Japanese Editorial Manager User Group Meeting! Attendees were highly engaged as they shared use cases and discussed EM and PM functionality — and Atlas received plentiful positive feedback.

Aries President Lyndon Holmes commented, “It was great to be involved in this highly productive user group meeting. Thank you to Atlas for your enthusiasm and excellent planning.”

At the event, the Atlas team and Lyndon Holmes

Register today for the 2014 European User Group Meetings

EEMUG and PMUG will take place at the CBI Centre in London in January 2014! Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in sessions about Editorial Manager® (at EEMUG) and ProduXion Manager® (at PMUG), and network with colleagues over cocktails.

Topics at the upcoming EEMUG include FundRef Integration, Reviewer Discovery, Cross-Journal Transfer, Editor Discussion Forums, ORCID, APC Processing, Cross-Journal Reporting, plus much more. This year, the Enterprise Analytics Reporting (EAR) session has been expanded in response to past attendee feedback.

Find out details and download agendas from the registration pages:
January 16: PMUG or EAR Session
January 17: EEMUG

The early-bird rate is in effect through December 5, so please sign up soon. We hope to see you there!

Journal of the American College of Surgeons upgrades to latest version of Editorial Manager

Another renowned society has just become an Aries customer!Welcome to the American College of Surgeons, which recently signed an agreement with Aries to deploy the latest version of Editorial Manager for its flagship journal.