Update from ISMTE Asia
Aries attended ISMTE’s first Asian Conference, held last week in Singapore.
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Latest Videos Showcase Benefits of EM’s Configurability
Two just-released videos highlight the fact that Aries’ Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager systems are tangible examples of the company’s commitment to giving users the control to manage their own configuration to support workflows as they see fit. This means that there are no costly software code changes, or lag times, associated with editorial offices making changes to the way deployments are configured.
One week left to sign up for the 12.2 Feature Webinar
There is still time to sign up to attend Aries’ Client Services team’s 12.2 Feature Webinar.
Timesaving workflow tools
There are several timesaving workflow tools built in to EM that are capable of saving editorial offices time during initial manuscript triage.
EM powers two newly launched journals
Two recently launched titles, The Graphene Council’s Graphene Technology and Cell Press’ Chem are using Editorial Manager to power submission and peer review workflows.
Read about EM Transfer Functionality in ISMTE’s EON
The March issue of ISMTE’s Editorial Office News (EON) Publication is freely accessible.
Implementing CRediT: An interview with Cell Press’s Gabriel Harp
The following is an interview with Gabriel Harp, Senior Product Manager at Cell Press. Cell Press’s research journals have been leading a pilot allowing authors to optionally make use of the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy, which will be integrated with Editorial Manager version 13.0, coming later this year. He describes the experience here:
Editor Substitution in 12.2
In version 12.2, currently in early deployment, editorial offices can swap one editor for another, without disrupting the rest of the configured multi-editor chain.
An update on CRediT
The CRediT taxonomy, which is integrated with Editorial Manager beginning with version 13.0, is a topic of interest for many authors and publishers. Those looking to learn more, will enjoy this short, awareness-raising update on the contributor role project recently published on F1000’s blog, Naturally Selected.
Botanical Society of America collects funder information in EM
Editorial Manager customer Botanical Society of America’s journals American Journal of Botany (AJB) and Applications in Plant Biology (APPS) recently began using EM to collect funder information.
Force11 wants to improve the way journals cite data
With the help of an NIH grant, Force11 is tackling the problem/opportunity of how authors cite data.