Did You Know? Aries offers strong UK Client Support

While cultural and linguistic differences between the UK and US often inspire comedy — or confusion — Aries’ commitment to superior Client Services translates to the letter. It doesn’t matter where in the world customers are, Aries’ Account Coordinators are there to help.

Aries’ UK Presence

7 Staff Members
5 from Client Services
1 from Sales
1 from Product Management

Editorial Humors

Other Editorial Humors cartoons appeared in recent newsletters.

EMUG 2015 is this week!

This year’s Editorial Manager User Group Meeting is coming up this week. Make certain to register if you plan to attend. Packed with productive sessions, and plenty of opportunity to network with peers and colleagues, this years’ EMUG shouldn’t be missed! See you there!

Join 12.1 Beta Testing

It’s not too late to sign up to beta test version 12.1! And with exciting features like editor chain automation enhancements, portal wide people notes, and the global editing of letter templates, why not? To sign up, contact an account coordinator today!

Take a look: Peer Review Evaluation

Ever wondered what Peer Review Evaluation (PRE) does with peer review data exported from Editorial Manager? Here’s a look at PRE in action! The graphic below shows the result of PRE analyzing data about the peer review activities that took place in JBJS’ EM deployment.

New ORCID Metrics

ORCIDs are growing in EM! This year, the number of EM journals allowing authors to login with ORCID credentials rose to over 2,500. It only takes one click to simplify author sign in, and capture authenticated ORCID information in the process.

CRediT in 13.0

There is a new open standard emerging for expressing/classifying the diverse roles that lead to research output. The classification includes, but is not limited to, traditional authorship roles.

Project CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) has created an initial taxonomy that classifies fourteen different ‘Contributor Roles’. Each person contributing to a piece of research may be assigned multiple roles.

EM’s initial implementation of the new standard allows:

1. The ability to attribute one or more ‘Contributor Roles’ to each Author of a submission
2. The ability to identify the degree to which a particular contributor was involved, i.e. one of “Lead”, “Supporting”, “Equal”
3. The ability to configure the collection of Contributor Roles per Article Type, as either optional or required.

Deployment audits drive improvements

One of the value-added benefits of working with Aries is our dedicated Client Services team. Personalized training and support are what the team is most known for, but they also perform audits of existing deployments for customers, in order to that configured workflow options ensure maximum efficiency.

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. and the Endocrine Society are the most recent clients to participate in audits.

“We had a very positive experience with the Aries team’s audit of our deployment,” said Christina Nelson, Peer Review Manager at JBJS. “Their feedback enabled us to close any gaps in our settings across our journals and ensured we were keeping up-to-date with the most useful developments.”

Interested in an audit? Speak with your account coordinator to learn more.

JoVE is a CODiE Finalist

Congratulations to EM users Journal of Visual Experiments (JoVE) for being named SIIA Content CODiE Award Finalist for Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution. The CODiEs are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Awards ceremony to take place at the ABM & Information Industry Summit in June. JoVE is also celebrating 100 issues with the release of the June issue.