Aries Systems Corporation

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will host their 47^th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD from May 28-30, 2025. The theme for SSP 2025 – “Reimagining the Future of Scholarly Publishing at the Intersection of Value and Values” – is designed to highlight the increasing pressure to provide value in a community of diverse needs during a time of accelerating change. As scholarly publishing continues to balance innovation, optimization, and maximizing value, we must also collectively maintain financial health of our organizations and protect the scholarly record. Creating an open forum for honest conversation on how to both prioritize and harmonize our core values as a scholarly ecosystem with the need for creating value through advancement, collaboration, and scalability.

Aries Systems is pleased to be an official Fellowship sponsor for SSP 2025! Our second annual sponsorship of the Generations Fund, SSP awards fellowships to early career professionals, those from underserved communities, and students of publishing, librarianship, and information science. The Generations Fund program provides educational seminars, annual membership to fellows, travel, and mentorship. Aries will also be exhibiting at SSP 2025 – stop by booth #204 to connect with our team!

Additionally, Aries Systems will be featured as a panelist in Session 3D – Real World Results on Peer Review: Pilot Study Indicates a Solution – on Thursday, May 29. The session will explore the value of a structured peer review process (SPR) in optimizing the publishing workflow and spotlight a real-life pilot study designed to test these strategies in practice. Jeff Christie, Aries’ Senior Client Services Account Coordinator, joins the panel alongside representatives from the Iowa Carver School of Medicine, Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer Health.

Mark your calendar for this informative and highly practical session! Full session details listed below. We look forward to seeing you at #SSP2025!

Real World Results on Peer Review: Pilot Study Indicates a Solution

Session 3D | Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 4:00pm

In the scholarly publishing world, peer review is essential to the quality and credibility of academic publications. However, there are challenges in finding reviewers, educating peer reviewers, and obtaining useful peer reviewer reports within a reasonable time period.

Two Publishers, one Editor in Chief, and one Submission Platform Technologist will discuss how the introduction of a structured peer review process (SPR) can decrease peer review time and increase the quality of peer review reports.

Get an inside look into the development of a structured peer review program in a pilot study across twenty-three journals.  Attendees will gain insights into the study results and learn the 9 structured peer review questions that yielded a 92% reviewer-response rate, so that they can reproduce in their own submission systems.

After attending this session, attendees will be able to develop and evaluate a structured peer-review process in their own publications.