Reference processing can be an expensive bottleneck in the publishing workflow. Publishers report that a high percentage of Author revisions are due to reference corrections. Additionally, composition vendors spend up to 16% of their time fixing references. Reference errors can be found in nearly half of publisher’s manuscripts despite these preemptive efforts. In an attemptRead More
Ensuring manuscript authenticity is crucial for Editors and journal staff. For this reason, Aries Systems has partnered with Crossref to integrate Similarity Check with Editorial Manager® (EM). Similarity Check is powered by iThenticate, a plagiarism detection tool that compares text from submitted manuscripts to information on the Internet and content from more than 40 millionRead More
Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® are used by thousands of scholarly publications worldwide. As each EM/PM site functions as a unique database, users are required to create an account for each individual journal. To relieve this burden and streamline the login process, Aries Systems has partnered with ORCID to offer a single sign-on (SSO)Read More
Authors often take advantage of various tools to prepare their manuscript and supplemental files prior to submission to a scholarly journal. Such manuscript preparation services include language polishing, journal selection assistance, bibliography management, and collaborative authoring solutions – all providing great benefits to Authors. For example, a newly released report from Editage, an Aries partner,Read More
Aries Systems is committed to continued innovation and process improvements in order to maintain our standard of delivering excellence. Our workflow management systems, Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® (PM), are frequently enhanced with numerous new software releases each year. To ensure our solutions meet customer needs, incorporate industry trends, adhere to technical standards, andRead More
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The 15th Annual European Editorial Manager User Group is quickly approaching! We asked frequent attendee Alyssa M. Taylor, Managing Editor of the American Political Science Review (APSR) a few questions about the meeting. Read her responses to learn more about Aries User Group Meetings and see her advice for first-time attendees. View the EEMUG agendaRead More
The fourth annual Peer Review Week will run from September 10-15th. This year the event’s focus is Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review. To celebrate Peer Review Week, we’ve curated a list of our favorite Editorial Manager tools and integrations that support peer review by ensuring that all participants in the peer review process receive recognition for their efforts in an unbiased way–disambiguating Author, Reviewer, and Editor contributions on a granular level.
We sat down with Editorial Manager users and partners at our 2018 User Group Meeting and asked them to tell us about their experiences working with Aries and Editorial Manager. Watch the video now to see what they said. Thank you to all those who shared their stories, workflow tips, and feedback with us. [tubepressRead More
An author’s degree of contribution to a study can sometimes be identified by the order in which names appear in the byline of the publication, but it is often difficult to discern contributions that way. The Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) aims to solve this problem by identifying levels of author contribution using a series of predefined roles,Read More
Thank you to the more than 150 attendees who joined us in Boston for the 16th Annual Editorial Manager User Group Meeting. With a record number of users and partners attending, this years’ meeting offered invaluable user feedback for Aries staff. Following each user group, we ask attendees to identify their favorite sessions from theRead More
Hoping to be more efficient this spring? Want to save time during peer review? Try these recent innovations to streamline your journal workflow. Simplify Author Submission with Xtract Editorial Manager Xtract saves Authors’ time by pre-populating metadata fields using data from their submitted Word manuscript file, reducing the time it takes to complete the submissionRead More