Aries Systems Corporation

The AAMC serves and leads the academic medicine community to improve the health of all. Founded in 1876 and based in Washington, D.C., the AAMC is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care through medical education, patient care, medical research, and community collaborations. AAMC’s Convey^® global disclosure system is a web-based, financial and relationship disclosure platform designed to help individuals and organizations eliminate redundancies and streamline the disclosure process by aggregating information and making it easily accessible in one central platform. Convey is integrated with Editorial Manager.

Allen Press is a leading supplier of editorial, printing and society management services. By integrating Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager with its other services, Allen Press offers scholarly societies a unique end-to-end solution. For example, the combination of ProduXion Manager and Charlesworth’s AutoProof (which automatically generates composed PDF files from formatted Word files) dramatically reduces the time and cost of publishing a manuscript.

The Association of Learned & Professional Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP) is an international membership trade body that supports and represents not-for-profit organizations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content. With over 330 members in 40 countries, membership also includes those that work with these publishers. ALPSP’s mission is to connect, inform, develop and represent the international scholarly and professional publishing community.

Aptara enriches content for capitalizing on all digital mediums. Providing full content lifecycle production – from content creation and design, to new media enhancements, content technology solutions, and production for all mobile devices and platforms – Aptara develops innovative digital products that deliver content how, when, and where recipients want it. Serving the 10 largest publishers in the world, Aptara is a US-based company founded in 1988. Over 4,000 professionals are deployed globally to help content providers create, enrich, publish, monetize, and manage their assets in the digital age.

ATLAS Co. Ltd. is the distributor for Editorial Manager in Japan. Based in Tokyo, ATLAS was founded in 1986 and employs a staff of 100. The company is a leader in scholarly publishing technology and developed the successful J-STAGE journal hosting platform under contract to JST. ATLAS is ideally placed to market and support Editorial Manager in Japan.

bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and can receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. Manuscripts are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online. A manuscript may be posted prior to, or concurrently with, submission to a journal but not if it has been accepted and given a journal DOI or published. Once posted, manuscripts have a preprint DOI and are citable. Authors may submit a revised version of a manuscript to bioRxiv at any time prior to publication in a journal.

bioRxiv is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. Follow @biorxivpreprint on Twitter.

The Charlesworth Author Services Division is a leading provider of language editing and author services to the global STM publisher market. With 20 years’ experience in China, The Charlesworth Group is also recognized globally as the trusted partner for sales and marketing representation and consultancy for STM publishers in the Chinese academic market. For further information on Publisher language polishing services visit: https://www.cwauthors.com/publisherspartnership.

ChronosHub is a web platform that simplifies the field within research publishing by connecting researchers, research organizations and funders in an automated workflow management tool. Originally designed for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ChronosHub was designed to scale to the broader research community to simplify implementation of publishing policies for research results AND address the grantees’ concerns about additional workload. ChronusHub is an ingest partner with Aries Systems and Editorial Manager.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is the creator of RightsLink^® for Scientific Communications, the industry-leading Article Publication Charge (APC) management system integrated with Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager.

The Council of Science Editors (CSE) is an international membership organization for editorial professionals publishing in the sciences. Our purpose is to serve over 800 members in the scientific, scientific publishing, ad information science communities by fostering networking, education, discussion, and exchange. Our aim is to be an authoritative resource on current and emerging issues in the communication of scientific information.

Aries Systems Corporation is an authorized Crossref Agent. Editorial Manager integrates with Similarity Check, Funder Registry, DOI, and other Crossref tools and services.

Founded in 2006, DataSalon provides publishers with complete customer insight via a fast and user-friendly hosted service. We’re proud to be different: solving the difficult challenges of data cleansing, integration and analysis in ways which are significantly faster, cheaper, and more flexible than conventional approaches. Our innovative, data-driven approach makes it possible to create a comprehensive, fast and user-friendly ‘data warehouse’ solution for all of your customer data in weeks (rather than months or years). We’ve established a strong reputation as the leading provider of ‘customer insight’ solutions to the academic publishing industry, and we’re pleased to count many of the largest and most innovative publishers among our clients.

Fonto allows subject matter experts create, edit and review documents with their XML Editor. Aries Systems’ LiXuid Manuscript’s XML editing tool is powered by the Fonto Editor. This integration focuses on the proof correction process, allowing authors and editors of scholarly content to edit their accepted manuscript in an intuitive, word processor-like user interface, while preserving underlying XML.

HighWire Press, Inc. delivers technology solutions for leading publishers to disseminate scholarly research worldwide. With offices in the US and the UK, HighWire provides strategic consulting, professional services and innovative open platform technologies, including Impact Vizor.

Since 1992, Inera has developed unique technologies to transform publishing workflows. Inera’s editorial and XML production tool, eXtyles®, includes reference-processing features to clean up, copyedit, and validate bibliographic references and link them to PubMed and Crossref. Aries and Inera have integrated eXtyles reference processing with Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager (beginning with EM 4.0 in 2005), providing hyperlinked bibliographies for peer reviewers, early warning of bibliographic errors for authors, and formatting of reference lists to house style for journal editors. In 2018, Editorial Manager integrated eXtyles Metadata Extraction (as Aries Xtract), which streamlines the author submission process and improves metadata accuracy by automatically identifying and extracting key metadata elements from author-submitted Word files to auto-populate submission fields.

The mission of the International Society of Managing & Technical Editors (ISMTE) is to connect the community of professionals committed to the peer review and publication of academic and scholarly journals. ISMTE provides peer-to-peer networking, education and training, research and resources for best practices, and development of journal policy.

Kudos is a free platform that allows researchers to manage communications around their publications – across multiple publishers and tools. They explain work in plain language and generate trackable links for sharing via email, web and social networks; these enable communications to be directly mapped against views, downloads, altmetrics and citations. Kudos thereby provides researchers, and their publishers and institutions, with a rich understanding of which channels and activities are most effective for broadening reach and impact.  Over 120,000 researchers have signed up to use Kudos and it has over 80 publisher, university and corporate customers around the world. Kudos was named Best New End User Product at the 2014 Charleston Advisor Readers’ Choice Awards and won the 2015 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. It has been named in Outsell’s “Ten to Watch” for two consecutive years

For biomedical journals MEDLINE is an essential resource that enables authors, reviewers and editors to validate content, check references and identify candidate reviewers. In Editorial Manager, MEDLINE has been fully integrated into the journal workflow so that high-quality relevant information is never more than a click away.

NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website.

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a trade association that was established in 2008 in order to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation.  Activities are overseen by the Board of Directors who are each elected by OASPA’s Members for a 3 year term.

ORCID is a community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. As an ORCID Launch Partner and evangelist, Aries Systems supports ORCID and the many benefits it offers during manuscript workflow. Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager®’s integration with ORCID allows publications to accept ORCID IDs from Authors, Reviewers, and Editors. In addition, journals can trigger automatic deposit of peer review history in Editorial Manager to the reviewer’s ORCID record to promote reviewer recognition.

Overleaf is an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools – specializing in cloud-based scientific documents.The Overleaf platform, with over 200,000 users, is an online service that makes the process of writing, collaborating, editing and publishing scientific content much quicker and easier. It brings the whole scientific documentation process into one place in the cloud – from idea to writing to review to publication. Overleaf is supported by Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities. Follow @Overleaf on Twitter.

Publons works with the world’s publishers to recognize the critical work of peer reviewers and editors without revealing any sensitive information. Now experts can instantly track and verify their previously hidden reviewing contributions across all of the world’s journals as evidence of their service and standing in their field. Publons also helps publishers and journals to better understand their peer review processes with unique data and insights, and to get peer review done more efficiently and effectively through an exclusive network of expert reviewers.

ReviewerCredits is an independent platform dedicated to scientists, journals and publishers addressing the peer review process. It certifies, measures and rewards the activity of scientists as peer reviewers. ReviewerCredits.com guarantees auditors to obtain a solid certification of peer review activity and conference/webinar talks as well as virtual credits that can be spent on the platform. In parallel, it allows publishers to find the reviewers to whom they can entrust the scientific article review process. ReviewerCredits is integrated with Editorial Manager to allow the seamless transfer of reviewer activity data from EM to ReviewerCredits, streamlining the certification and rewarding of peer review contributions. This provides publishers with an additional reviewer recognition service at their disposal to honor their reviewer base.

Ringgold helps publishers and intermediaries improve the quality of their data. Clean, well structured data can be used to develop better business intelligence, improve decision making, and more easily connect your publications to the supply chain.

SciScore scans your submitted methods sections for a variety of rigor criteria that have been shown to contribute to the reproducibility of scientific research. It also analyzes sentences that contain research resources (antibodies, cell lines, plasmids and software tools) and determines how uniquely identifiable that resource is based off of the provided metadata. Using this, SciScore is able to generate a reproducibility criteria-compliance score and a report containing a rigor adherence table and a key resources table based off of the “STAR” guidelines. SciScore is integrated with Editorial Manager.

Sheridan is a leading provider of print, publishing services and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. With four U.S. based-production facilities, each location has a market specialty that supports STM and commercial reprints, scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books.

STM is the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers. It has over 120 members in 21 countries who each year collectively publish nearly 66% of all journal articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works. STM members include learned societies, university presses, private companies, new starts and established players.

Founded in 1977, UKSG was originally known as the United Kingdom Serials Group, then the UK Serials Group. Our mission is to connect the knowledge scholarly communications community through publications and events, supporting discussion and progression of the issues facing UKSG members.

XMLink is the leading provider of medical related scholarly information. For many years, XMLink has contributed to the development and operation of Korean medical journals.

XMLink designs, develops and hosts e-journal platforms of medical journals, and this service is known as XMLinkHub. The company also provides XML related services for PubMed and PubMed Central. XMLink shares the International relations with Crossref, ICSTI, World Wide Science Alliance, ORCID, NLM/NCBI, PubMed, PubMed Central, and others.

XMLink is planning to expand its business into other scholastic fields as well as medical journals.