Did You Know? You Can Use Linked Submissions to Process “Letters to the Editor”

Editorial Manager’s ‘Letter to the Editor’ linked submissions feature gives your editorial team a simple and flexible way to track and manage letters received in response to published papers. An editor can link letters to a published paper, and invite the author to respond to any or all of the letters; the author’s responses are automatically linked to the letters and the publication. To learn more about Linked Submissions, please contact your Aries Account Coordinator.

Ramp Up On New EM V8.0 Features – Don’t Miss These Webinars

Our upcoming October Webinar series provides a fast, practical introduction to the new features in EM V8.0 – so you can put them to work right away. Participation is strictly limited to 12 attendees per session – so register online as soon as possible.

Each webinar includes one hour of instruction followed by 15 minutes of live Q & A:

EM V8.0 Enterprise Analytics Reporting (EAR) tool. This session will be dedicated to this new reporting tool. We will provide you with an overview of how to use the canned reports and how to modify them, linking data tables and creating your own reports. Webinar offered Wednesday, October 13th at 10am EST.

EM V8.0 General Enhancements. Topics being covered will include: Secondary fields for people records and submissions, Attachments (now also available to Editor roles), Submit Decision and Notify Author Enhancements, Author Resolver Integration, Enhancements to Reference Checking, Questions.  Webinar offered Thursday, October 14th at 11am EST.

Existing Aries customers will be billed for a standard support incident per person per session attended. If you are not currently an Aries customer but would like to attend a Webinar, please email marketing@ariessys.com.

New for Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager 8.0: Automatic Reference Correction

Automatic Reference Correction (ARC), a new feature added to the Reference Checking/eXtyles tool in Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager 8.0, automatically corrects any reference that links to PubMed or CrossRef. ARC links to the full metadata for the reference and uses it to reconstruct the reference – either by adding missing data only (Add mode), or by adding missing data and replacing any incorrect data in the reference (Add and Merge mode).

In the example below, ARC has used PubMed data to automatically correct the original reference (top) by correcting the author list, and in the article title changing “intracellular” to “intercellular”, adding the word “pigment”, and adding the missing volume number.

To learn about Automatic Reference Correction, please contact your Aries Account Coordinator.

Delegation of Chinese Editors Visits Aries

On August 9 a delegation of 14 scholarly editors and publishers from China visited Aries Systems’ offices as part of a 10-day U.S. tour sponsored by the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) and publishing services provider The Charlesworth Group. The tour enabled the delegates to share with their U.S. counterparts some of the unique publishing and internationalization challenges they face, and to review the latest developments in electronic manuscript systems and digital publishing technologies. “We were very pleased to have a very detailed demonstration of Editorial Manager from Aries Systems,” said Yan Shuai, President of CUJS. “The successful meeting with Aries was part of a very worthwhile tour overall.”

CIG Media Group Migrates to Editorial Manager

CIG Media Group, LP (CIG), a Dallas-based subsidiary of Medical Media Holdings, LLC, will migrate peer review and production operations to Editorial Manager. The move furthers CIG’s efforts to improve operations and provide authors a top-level experience from submission to publication. “Editorial Manager grants us the unprecedented ability to modify our peer review system as needed,” says David Allen, Managing Editor at CIG. “We save valuable time and money with the automated ties to our print and online journal vendors, enabling us to add additional services for our authors and our audience.” CIG is also in the process of implementing Preprint Manager, which Allen believes will streamline CIG’s operations by enabling more automation and greater visibility into the production process. Founded in 1996, CIG is the premier publisher of peer-reviewed, tumor-specific, and clinically-relevant oncology journals. For more information about CIG and its publications please visit www.cigjournals.com.

JSME Goes Live with First – Ever Japanese Version of Editorial Manager

In August, The Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) began using the first-ever Japanese-language version of Editorial Manager – a version Aries developed and deployed with help from its distribution partner in Japan, Atlas Corporation. “We reconfigured the product so that the customer could change the field names and other onscreen elements to meet their requirements,” says Ann Richards, Aries Senior Account Coordinator. “The result is a true Japanese user experience; the author sees only Japanese, no English, as he or she works with the system.” This flexibility to customize was a key reason the JSME chose Editorial Manager over competing solutions.

“We are very pleased and honored to be the first user of the Japanese version of Editorial Manager,” says Koshige Tadashi, Publishing Department Manager, JSME. “The system has many excellently detailed features. We understand why Editorial Manager is so widely used by academic societies around the world, and we hope its use will spread in Japan as well.” To visit the JSME submission website, please click here: http://www.editorialmanager.com/trans-jsme/.