Did you know? Journals can improve the quality of peer review

In EM Version 10.1, journals can give reviewers access to CrossCheck similarity reports for manuscripts assigned to them. Activating this feature can help improve the quality of peer review and manuscript analysis.

As shown below, EM displays an overall similarity score for the manuscript and a link to view the full report.

To enable CrossCheck for your publication or for 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.

Version 11.0 includes FundRef integration – beta testers currently enrolling

Editorial Manager (EM) and ProduXion Manager (PM) Version 11.0, scheduled to enter beta testing in late January, includes FundRef integration.

FundRef is a standard taxonomy of research funders. The EM/PM integration allows authors to easily select their funding sources from an auto-populated list.

Aries customers activate ORCID feature in Editorial Manager

Aries Systems, an ORCID launch partner and sponsor, has integrated Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager with the registry, allowing publications to accept ORCIDs from authors, co-authors, reviewers, and editors.

Public Library of Science (PLOS), Springer, and Wolters Kluwer rank among Aries customers who have activated the EM functionality for collection and workflow assimilation of unique identifiers.

Please join us for EEMUG and PMUG 2014

Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager users, you are invited to register for the user group meetings in London next month. Come participate in sessions about new and future workflow management technology; hear guest speakers; and network with colleagues.

Session topics 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.

January 16: PMUG or EAR Session
January 17: EEMUG

NGO Practical Action leverages Aries workflow solutions

In 2013, Practical Action Publishing deployed Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager for three peer-reviewed journals: Waterlines, FoodChain, and Enterprise Development and Microfinance. Founded 40 years ago by E.F. Schumacher, author of “Small is Beautiful,” Practical Action Publishing aims to challenge poverty through the global distribution of knowledge and technologies. Their policy, practice and research publications aim to stimulate discussion, strengthen peoples’ capabilities and promote sustainable change.

Endocrine Press Books chooses Editorial Manager

The esteemed Endocrine Society has become the latest publisher to select Editorial Manager for management of its book publishing workflow. View the EM submission site for Endocrine Press Books: http://www.editorialmanager.com/books-submission/.

Other adopters of EM for book workflow include American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Public Health Association, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, LexisNexis, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, National Council of Teachers of English, and Springer.

EDP Sciences launches new Open Access journals using Editorial Manager

EDP Sciences, already an important Aries customer since 2008, is extending use of the Editorial Manager submission and peer review system to its new Open Access imprint, EDP Open.

Check out the EM submission site for an EDP Open journal, Parasite: http://www.editorialmanager.com/parasite/.