Aries Systems Corporation

As publishing workflows become increasingly complex and overloaded to keep pace with the latest research and innovations, it is critical to maintain efficient, yet flexible operations. Publishers often shuffle content, data, and communications between key stakeholders across incompatible and disparate systems. As book publishers struggle to juggle multiple projects at once, traditional silos decrease visibility and make scaling up a challenge. These risks can result increased costs, delays to publication, and decreased satisfaction for Editors and Authors.

Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® (PM) are the industry leading editorial and production workflow management systems for scholarly journals, reference works, books, and other publications. Leveraging the power of both platforms, publishers can efficiently manage their multi-book workflows and content types within a single interface. In minutes, Editors can easily build books with sub-sections, chapters, and table of contents. Publishers have the option to divide the book into multiple projects, allowing different editorial groups to manage different sections or chapters as needed. To save time setting up each new book from scratch, Editors can copy an existing book to use as a template.

Editors can easily upload or search for subject matter experts to serve as potential Contributors for each book project. Contributors can be invited or auto-assigned to author content for one or more chapters/sections of the book, and may be provided helpful information by the Editor such as instructions or copyright forms. Editors that already possess the content needed may bypass the Contributor workflow if needed by directly adding manuscripts to the book.

EM and PM are highly configurable, allowing the book publisher to customize user role permissions, book project templates, due dates and automatic reminder letters, cascading chain task assignments, auto-sequential manuscript labels, Contributor submission steps, and more! Book metadata – such as ISSN/ISBN, volume, issue, edition, and budget numbers – is easily stored within the system and can be referenced downstream. Through detailed status dashboards, publishers can easily monitor editorial and production workflows for all books and submissions in real time, all in one place. EM and PM come equipped with a robust, built-in reporting suite that allows publishers to surface key metrics to track performance and optimize their book publishing operations.

As a flexible end-to-end solution, Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager streamline and scale up multi-book publishing processes through time-saving automation, tailored workflows, and centralized visibility of tasks and metadata. To learn more, contact your Aries Account Coordinator or request a free demonstration.